Rising racial tensions won’t help Donald Trump. Here’s why. (op-ed)
Rising racial tensions won’t help Donald Trump. Here’s why. (op-ed)
- July 11, 2016
- Michael Tesler, political science assistant professor, The Washington Post, July 11, 2016
Michael Tesler, associate professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, [writes]: But the most important reason why rising racial tensions will not help Trump is Trump himself. … The public views Trump as a racially divisive figure. Two-thirds of Americans say that the presumptive Republican nominee is “unfairly biased” against minority groups, and a slim majority thought that his attack on the Mexican American judge who is presiding over the Trump University lawsuit was “racist.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/07/11/rising-racial-tensions-wont-help-donald-trump-heres-why/.
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