Percent of Americans See Trump as Divider, Poll Finds

A new poll from Quinnipiac University found that most Americans believe that President Donald Trump is doing more to divide the country than to unite it.

Voters say that President Donald Trump's inconsistent condemnations of racism have not discouraged white supremacists, according to a survey released this week.

Just more than a third of American voters (35%) say Trump hasn't had an impact on white supremacist groups, and six in 10 voters (59%) say he's encouraged them.

In an open-ended question, allowing for any answers, 64 voters (not percent) say "strong" is the first word that comes to mind when they think of Trump.

At a rally in Phoenix this week, Trump defended his reaction to al controversy.

"From a Republican point of view, we've got to let everybody in this country know of color, we see these people the same way as you do, and the president missed the boat there".

Trump initially failed to explicitly condemn white supremacists for their role in the rally and the bloodshed, and said there were egregious displays of bigotry "on many sides".

Nearly as many Republican primary voters blame counterprotesters for the violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia as blame the neo-Nazis who were protesting, according to a new poll.

The split shows that 'more Americans object to President Trump's character than his agenda،' according to George Washington University professor Michael Cornfield.

For some comparison, in the same survey, 5% of voters said prejudice against minority groups was "not a problem at all" in the US.

Quinnipiac's telephone poll surveyed 1,514 self-identified registered voters, and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1%, though the number may be slightly higher for subgroups.

Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said the events in Charlottesville, and Trump's comments about them, have fueled a perception in America that racial tensions are on the rise.