Most Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of the protests.
found most Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of the protests and the underlying racial issues.
"The race continues to be largely a referendum on the incumbent. The initial reaction to ongoing racial unrest in the country suggests that most voters feel Trump is not handling the situation all that well," said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute.
A majority of Americans say in the Emerson College poll that race relations are just as bad or worse than they were during the civil rights era. A CBS News poll released Thursday found the number saying there is progress toward ending discrimination against blacks dropped to 56% from 79% in March 2014, when the country marked the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
Sixty-one percent of the respondents in the CBS News survey say race relations in the USA are"generally bad." While 17% say race relations are getting better, 42% say they are getting worse, and 39% say they are unchanged.
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