More than a third of Americans agree with Donald Trump’s warning that illegal immigrants are “staining” America’s blood, a new poll finds.
The poll, conducted by the Brookings Institution and the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), found that a significant 34% of respondents said they had no prior experience with the former U.S. president and Republican White House candidate during his campaign. Agreed with the statement. Donald Trump.
“One-third of Americans (34%) say today’s undocumented immigrants ‘taint the blood of our country,’ including six in 10 Republicans (61%); That includes 30% of independents and just 13% of Democrats,” the annual poll of more than 5,000 people from Aug. 16 to Sept. 4 states.
“When you see this kind of rhetoric, when you get this kind of support from either of our two major political parties, it’s… It’s a really worrying situation.” “That phrase is straight out of ‘Mein Kampf.’ This kind of blood poison, that’s Nazi rhetoric.”
President Trump told supporters at a rally in New Hampshire in December 2023 that immigrants coming into the United States were “tainting the blood of our country.”
“I think they let 15 million, 16 million people into our country, the real number is 15 million, 16 million. When they do that, we have a lot of work to do. They contaminated the blood of our country. “I’m doing it,” President Trump told the audience. “That’s what they’ve done. They’re poisoning mental hospitals and prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just three or four countries that we think of. , are coming into our country from all over the world.”
He repeated the phrase in social media posts after the rally, and previously used it in an interview in September 2023.
“Sepsis” is a term used by Adolf Hitler in his Declaration of Mein Kampf. Trump’s comments drew strong criticism from the Biden camp at the time.
Former Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie responded to Trump’s comments, saying, “He’s disgusting.”
Television host Geraldo Rivera recently cited Trump’s comments in an interview with NewsNation to explain why he won’t vote for the former president. “I don’t understand how any Latino with any kind of self-respect or self-respect would go along with this abuse that stains the blood of this country.”
The poll also found that nearly one in four Trump supporters (23%) believe that if he loses the election, he should declare the results invalid and do whatever it takes to become president. It turned out that there was.
