{"id":34347,"date":"2019-07-21T07:28:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T07:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34347"},"modified":"2019-07-21T07:28:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T07:28:04","slug":"poll-a-third-of-democrats-say-its-racism-if-white-politicians-criticize-political-views-of-politicians-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34347","title":{"rendered":"Poll: A third of Democrats say it&#8217;s racism if white politicians criticize political views of politicians of color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.rbl.ms\/19937607\/origin.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Just periods after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/donald-trump-ilhan-omar-go-back-to-africa\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">President Donald Trump was accused of racism<\/a> for challenging progressive Democratic congresswomen who criticize America to &#8220;go back&#8221; to the countries &#8220;from which they came, &#8221; a Rasmussen poll said about a third of Democrats( 32%) believe it&#8217;s racism if white-hot politicians criticize the political beliefs of legislators of coloring, <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/a-third-of-dems-believe-any-white-politician-who-criticizes-a-politician-of-color-is-racist\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">PJ Media said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Only 16% of both Republican and unaffiliated voters shared that idea, PJ Media added, citing the poll.<\/p>\n<p rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">And among all voters, the poll said 22% believe it&#8217;s racist if a white politician blames the political beliefs of a politician of colour, the store noted, while 68% disagree and 10% are undecided.<\/p>\n<p>What else did the poll say? <\/p>\n<p rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/general_politics\/july_2019\/trump_a_racist_32_of_democrats_say_any_white_criticism_of_politicians_of_color_is_racist\" target=\"_blank\">poll<\/a> liberated Wednesday also said 47% of all likely U.S. voters belief Trump is a racist, down from 50% <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/trump_administration\/january_2018\/is_trump_a_racist\" target=\"_blank\">in January 2018<\/a>. In addition, the poll noticed &#8230; &#8230; that 49% disagree and instead say Trump&#8217;s antagonists are &#8220;accusing him of racism only for political gain, &#8221; which was an increase from 43% in the earlier survey.<\/p>\n<p rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Rasmussen findings reflect a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-poll\/republican-support-for-trump-rises-after-racially-charged-tweets-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKCN1UB2UD\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters\/ Ipsos poll<\/a> showing that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/glenn-radio\/heres-what-happened-to-president-trumps-approval-ratings-after-his-go-back-tweets-poll\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Trump&#8217;s approval rating increased by 5 percentage points<\/a> among Republicans after his controversial Twitter proclamations Sunday, apparently guided at Rep. Ilhan Omar( D-Minn .), who was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, as well as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez( D-N.Y .), Rashida Tlaib( D-Mich .), and Ayanna Pressley( D-Mass .), who were born in America.<\/p>\n<p rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Finally, the Rasmussen poll said only 11% believe the word &#8220;racism&#8221; refers only to discrimination by white people against minorities, PJ Media noted, while 84% said racism refers to any discrimination by those of one race against another.<\/p>\n<p>Anything else? <\/p>\n<p rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/president-donald-trump-says-his-tweets-about-congresswomen-were-not-racist\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">doubled down on his remarks<\/a> Monday, telling members of the media that he didn&#8217;t belief his comments were racist. <\/p>\n<p> In statements made at the White House, Trump said, &#8220;Not at all. If person got a problem with home countries, if somebody doesn&#8217;t want to be in our country, they should leave, &#8221; The Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/453092-trump-defends-tweets-as-not-at-all-racist\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> After media members attempted to persuade Trump into specifically naming the members of Congress in question, he reacted, &#8220;I think you can guess.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/poll-a-third-of-democrats-say-its-racism-if-white-politicians-criticize-political-views-of-politicians-of-color\">theblaze.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just periods after President Donald Trump was accused of racism for challenging progressive Democratic congresswomen who criticize America to &#8220;go back&#8221; to the countries &#8220;from which they came, &#8221; a Rasmussen poll said about a third of Democrats( 32%) believe it&#8217;s racism if white-hot politicians criticize the political beliefs of legislators of coloring, PJ Media &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19204,2624,179,18203,8732,19187],"class_list":["post-34347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-ayanna-pressley","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-ilhan-omar","tag-poll","tag-rashida-tlaib"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/img1563694086.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}