Trump claimed on Sunday that a new poll shows him with a 40% approval rating among African-Americans, which is not true.
Trump tweeted:
New Fox Poll shows a “40% Approval Rating by African Americans for President Trump, a record for Republicans.†Thank you, a great honor!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 4, 2018
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Trump’s African-American approval rating is not a record
Trump got the source of the poll wrong:
It’s actually a Rasmussen poll that a Fox columnist uncritically passed along. https://t.co/f73unNvQ6y https://t.co/0kG0SXu6uT
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) November 4, 2018
Rasmussen is a conservative online polling company with a horrible accuracy record. In other words, they’re junk polls that feed the delusions of the Republican media bubble and Donald Trump.
Trump’s real approval rating with African-Americans have hovered between 10%-15%, and regarding voting, it is less than 10%.
Trump posted this tweet in response to the Michael Cohen bombshell that Trump is a racist who has used racist language in private for decades, including the claim that African-Americans are too stupid to vote for him.
No. Donald Trump doesn’t have a 40% approval rating with African-Americans, and only a total idiot would believe that this racist president does, or ever could.
It looks like Trump’s mental breakdown over potentially losing the midterm election has already begun.
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