Analysis: Americans broadly understand why protesters are in the streets. Does Trump?
Friday found that more than half of Americans think four different things played a substantial role in the demonstrations: anger over Floyd’s death, tensions between black Americans and police, long-standing concerns about how black people are treated in America and opportunism on the part of some participants to commit criminal acts.
This overlaps with party to some extent. The partisan gaps were far wider across the board, with Republicans being most likely to identify people taking advantage of the situation to commit crimes as having contributed a great deal to the demonstrations. Less than half of Republicans — the vast majority of whom— thought that long-standing concerns about mistreatment of black Americans contributed a great deal.
Faulkner, who is black, noted that Trump’s response to the video of Floyd’s death was necessarily different from her own.
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