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US President Donald Trump’s attempt to make social unrest a central issue in his re-election campaign has yet to increase his acceptance rate, as most Americans do not see crime as a major problem. facing the country and most remain. views anti-racist protests with sympathy, according to a Reuters / Ipsos poll released today.
A nationwide poll conducted on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 found that 40 percent of registered voters support Republican Trump, up from 47 percent who say they will vote for Democratic opponent Joe Biden.
Biden’s leadership on voting intentions has remained about the same for the past three weeks, during which both parties nominated Trump and Biden for the presidency through their national conferences.
Following in Biden’s footsteps in most national polls following the country’s coronavirus outbreak, Trump has sought to shift focus from a pandemic that has claimed the lives of more than 180,000 Americans in the Black Lives protests. Matters, who blames escalating violence in cities, arguing that Biden is lenient on crime.
But the survey showed that the majority – 78% – of those surveyed remain “very” or “somewhat” concerned about the coronavirus. Nearly 60 percent said Trump was at least partly responsible for the prolonged closure of schools and businesses due to the pandemic and the large number of cases of the virus in the United States. At least six million Americans have been infected with the virus, more than any other country.
On the contrary, most Americans do not consider crime to be a priority for the country and do not consider crime rates to increase in their communities, the survey showed.
Only about 8% of American adults responded that crime is a top priority for the country compared to 30% who said it was the economy or work and 16% who said it was the healthcare system.
Additionally, 62% of registered voters, including 62% of Democrats and 65% of Republicans, said crime is not increasing in their communities.
According to the survey, 53% of American adults said they still viewed anti-racist protesters positively, about the same as 52% in a similar poll conducted in late July.
Although support for protesters has plummeted since the death of black George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer in May, sparking a heated national dialogue on racial equality, opinion polls show that more than half of bourgeois Americans and more than half Undecided registered voters still view protesters with sympathy.
Trump and his Republican allies tried to deflect public interest in crime in the country during their conference last week when new episodes erupted after Jacob Blake was shot in the back in Kenosa, Wisconsin. important battlefield that will judge to a certain extent the outcome of the November elections.
Trump has tried to fuel fears of urban crime, especially among white bourgeois voters, falsely claiming that Biden would “cut off police funding,” a charge the Democratic presidential candidate denies.
“No one will be safe in Biden America,” Trump told a Republican national congress last week.
Biden fought back and accused Trump of fomenting racist fears in the United States in hopes of boosting his campaign.
“The truth is that Donald Trump has failed to protect America. And now he’s trying to scare him,” Biden of Pittsburgh said this week.
The Reuters / Ipsos survey was conducted online in English across the United States. It collected responses from 1,335 American adults, including 551 Democrats and 523 Republicans.
Source: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
