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Half of Americans, 81% of Republicans, agree with Trump's Hitleresque claims that immigrants are "poisoning the blood" of America

web.archive.org SHOCK POLL: Half of All Voters Agree With Trump’s Hitler-Echoing ‘Poisoning the Blood’ Rant — Including 81% of Republicans

A new poll shows that a shocking number of voters, including a majority of Republicans, agree with Donald Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric.

SHOCK POLL: Half of All Voters Agree With Trump’s Hitler-Echoing ‘Poisoning the Blood’ Rant — Including 81% of Republicans

... Last month, Trump took his anti-immigrant vitriol to a new level in a campaign speech where he said immigrants from Africa and Asia are “poisoning the blood of our country” and inundating America with crime and mental illness. The remarks were fiercely condemned by Trump’s critics, many of whom noted the parallels between his words and those of Adolf Hitler.

Yet despite the widespread denunciation, the CBS poll found that 97 percent of “MAGA voters” agreed with Trump’s “poisoning the blood” comments, as did 65 percent of non-MAGA Republicans. Combined, the poll determined that 81 percent of all Republican primary voters agree with Trump on this. And nearly of all voters — 47 percent — are on board with the comments too. Only a narrow majority of 53 percent of all voters said they disagree with Trump’s immigrant remarks...

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