NORC poll: Most disapprove of Donald Trump on race relations

Large majorities of black and Lati Americans think Donald Trump’s actions as president have me things worse for people like m, and about two-thirds of Americans overall disapprove of how he’s handling race relations, according to a new poll conducted by Associated Press-RC Center for Public Affairs Research.

About half of all Americans think  Trump’s actions have been b for African Americans, Muslims, and women, and slightly more than half say y’ve been b for Hispanics.

Trump’s 33% approval rating on handling race relations makes that one of his worst issues in recent AP-RC polls. That stands in stark contrast to his handling of ecomy: About half say y approve of his handling of that issue, while views of current ecomic conditions continue to be rosy amid robust employment numbers and a strong stock market.

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Four in 10 Americans said y approve of Trump overall, according to poll, conducted before release of a rough transcript of a phone call showing Trump prodded president of Ukraine to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s anuncement that she would launch a formal impeachment inquiry.

poll provides a bleak assessment of how nation views Trump on race issues as he runs for a second term and repeatedly boasts of his popularity among African Americans and Latis. Trump has consistently said his ecomic policies have been good for African Americans and or people of color.

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But poll shows few black Americans think that’s true. Just 4% say y think Trump’s actions have been good for African Americans in general, while 81% think he’s me things worse. Similar shares of black Americans think Trump has been b for Hispanics, Muslims, and women.

“He speaks thing but hate rhetoric,” said Chris Smith, 38, an African American information techlogy worker in Columbia, Tennessee, who considers himself independent but leans Democratic. “If leer of this country is free to speak like that, re’s going to be people who think it’s OK to speak like that.” “He’s making people live ir life in fear,” Smith said.

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Trump has drawn widespre condemnation for racist rhetoric throughout his presidency. He’s warned of an “invasion” at sourn border, posted racist tweets about four women of color in Congress and attacked Democratic U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings’ largely black district as a “rat and rodent-infested mess.” He’s showered praise on Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, a slave owner who fought to protect institution of slavery during U.S. Civil War, and said re were ”very fine people on both sides ” of clashes between white nationalists and counterprotesters. But he has claimed he doesn’t have a “racist bone” in his body.

poll comes weeks after a suspected gunman, who is white, apparently wrote an anti-Hispanic rant before opening fire in El Paso, Texas, with an AK-47-style rifle on Walmart shoppers, many of m Lati. Some blamed Trump’s rhetoric for inciting gunman.

Simon Wey, 54, a Nigerian immigrant who lives in Houston and is a registered Republican, said president’s rhetoric on migrants makes him feel uncomfortable.

“I think some of his immigration policies have been hurtful to countries with large mirity populations,” Wey said. “re’s a lot of uncertainty w.”

Sixty-nine percent of Latis think Trump’s actions have been b for Hispanics generally, while 19% think y’ve been good. Majorities of Latis also think Trump’s actions have been b for African Americans, Muslims, and women.

“It’s his attitude. He just has this really cocky way about him,” said Rose Haway, a 62-year-old Hispanic woman who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “It’s what he says in his speeches and way he’s treated, migrant children. I’m appalled.”

Haway also pointed to Republican president’s rhetoric about his desire to build a wall along U.S.-Mexico border as especially hurtful.

Among white Americans, about a third think Trump’s actions have been good for black Americans, women and Hispanics, while about a quarter think y have been good for Muslims. Forty-seven percent think Trump’s actions have been b for Hispanics, 44% say y’ve been b for Muslims and 39% say y’ve been b for women and black Americans.

Shane Chessey, a white Republican from Pittsburgh, lauded Trump’s performance on ecomy and thinks critiques of president as racist or sexist are overblown, even as he ackwledges president’s langu sometimes comes across as “crass.”

“I think he’s trying to bring this country up toger,” said Chessey, 54. “Everybody has a fair opportunity to make it in this country.”

Among Republicans, about 6 in 10 say y think Trump has been good for women, Latis and black Americans. Fewer, 4 in 10, think his actions have been good for Muslims. more than 2 in 10 Republicans think Trump’s actions have been b for any of groups asked about in poll.

share of Republicans saying Trump’s actions have been good for each group has increased since an AP-RC poll conducted in February 2018. In that poll, about half said Trump’s actions h been good for African Americans and women and about 4 in 10 said y’d been good for Latis, while about 3 in 10 said y’d been good for Muslims.

Large majorities of Democrats think Trump’s actions as president have been b for black, Hispanic and Muslim Americans and for women.

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AP-RC poll of 1,286 ults was conducted Sept. 20-23 using a sample drawn from RC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of U.S. population. margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.8 percent points. Respondents were first selected randomly using dress-based sampling methods and later were interviewed online or by phone.