The poll comes after a series of violent attacks on Donald Trump supporters

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According to a Rasmussen poll, 31 percent of voters say the US will have a second Civil War over the next five years. While 31 percent say civil war is likely, 11 percent say it is “very likely”. Around 59 percent of all voters are concerned those opposed to President Trump’s policies will resort to violence and 33 percent are very concerned. This compares to 53 percent and 28 percent respectively in the spring of Barack Obama’s second year in office. But 37 percent don’t have that concern, including 16 percent who are not at all concerned.

The poll comes after a series of violent attacks on Donald Trump supporters. In April this year, a Trump supporter was attacked in a restaurant near Dupont Circle in Northwest DC. According to the police report, the 29-year-old victim named Maricela said she overheard a conversation between two female suspects and their male friend. She said she became involved in their conversation and said she supported Trump. Speaking to Fox 5, Maricela said: “I’m a Trump supporter. I stood by my views, then they called me a racist and then they started attacking me.”

More Democrats think a second war is imminent than Republicans

More Democrats think a second war is imminent than Republicans, with 37 percent and 32 percent respectively. And 26 percent of voters not affiliated with either major party think a civil war is at hand. The level of concern is about the same among Republicans, Democrats and unaffiliated voters in regards to the threat of violence from those critical of the media’s coverage of Trump. Women and those under 40 are more worried about a civil war than men and older voters are. In terms of race, 44 percent of blacks think a second civil war is likely compared to 28 percent of whites and 36 percent of other minority voters.

Only 40 percent think the US would be better off if Hillary Clinton had been elected

White people are also less concerned about political violence than the others are. There have been a number of reports of violence against black Donald Trump supporters. In May this year, employees at a Cheesecake Factory in Miami, Florida, verbally attacked and made threatening gestures toward a black man dining with his girlfriend’s family for wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat. According to multiple witnesses, a woman approached the man, pointed to his hat to signal other employees to approach the table. At that point a dozen or so people began making comments about the hat, saying they wanted to punch him in the face and some allege some of the employees referred to the man as a “n**ger”.

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