Poll: Majority Believes Trump's Response To Charlottesville Hasn't Been Strong Enough

[DonViejo]

Source: NPR




August 16, 2017 4:00 PM ET
Domenico Montanaro - 2015

A majority of Americans think President Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., was "not strong enough," according to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.

Fifty-two percent of respondents said so, as compared with just over a quarter (27 percent) who thought it was strong enough.

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Eighty percent of the poll of 1,125 Americans was conducted following the president's controversial comments Tuesday blaming "both sides" for the violence that left one woman dead after a man drove his car into a crowd of protesters. The man was in Charlottesville for a march that included white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the KKK.

As to be expected when looking at questions of the president's leadership, there's a partisan split — 79 percent of Democrats and 52 percent of independents agree that Trump wasn't strong enough, but 59 percent of Republicans believe he was.



Read more: http://www.npr.org/2017/08/16/543957964/poll-majority-believe-trump-s-response-to-charlottesville-hasn-t-been-strong-eno

[zentrum]

1. Only half the country?

This is the bigger problem.

[pat_k]

2. Wow, on this one he's down to the 25% reactionaries...

...that have plagued the nation for as long as I can remember. That's quite an accomplishment.

The high number who buy the "both sides" bullshit isn't surprising. But "just over a quarter (27 percent) who thought it was strong enough" is encouraging.