Voters are closely divided over whether President Trump is a racist, but one-in-three Democrats think it’s racist any time a white person criticizes a politician of color.

According to MRCTV, a new poll out of Rasmussen reveals that a whopping 32% of Democrats say it is racist when a white person criticizes a non-white politician.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 47% of all Likely U.S. Voters think Trump is a racist, down a bit from 50% in January 2018. Slightly more (49%) disagree and say his opponents are accusing him of racism only for political gain, up from 43% in the earlier survey.

(To see survey question wording, click here.)

When asked to define racism though, a supermajority of respondents, 87%, said that racism is simply when one race thinks differently of another race. Still, 11% said that racism was white people discriminating against minorities.

An article from PJ Media put it perfectly into perspective why this is.

Let’s put this another way: A third of Democrats believe that minority politicians should be immune from criticism by white politicians. Their policies can’t be challenged without there being an inherent racist motive. This is what a third of Democrats actually believe. If you’re a white politician and oppose raising taxes, you can debate higher taxes with another white politician, but if you have the same debate with a minority politician, you’re racist.



The president has been steamrolling his opponents in “The Squad,” made up of female Democratic progressive minorities, for their “anti-American” rhetoric.

“We all know that AOC and this crowd are a bunch of Communists, they hate Israel, they hate our own Country, they’re calling the guards along our Border (the Border Patrol Agents) Concentration Camp Guards, they accuse people who support Israel as doing it for the Benjamin’s,…. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2019

This hasn’t hurt him at all, though. In fact, he has seen a boost in his polling numbers since the feud began.

The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on July 15-16, 2019 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.