‘Trump unpopular among Blacks’

washington — Donald Trump won only a fraction of the black vote in last year’s US presidential election and opinion polls out this week suggest he remains deeply unpopular among African-Americans.

Ninety-four percent of the black voters in a Quinnipiac University poll published Wednesday said they believed Trump is not fit to serve as president.

About the same number — 95 percent — said they did not approve of the way he is handling race relations.

And nearly two-thirds of the African-Americans surveyed in another poll — this one conducted by the PerryUndem research firm — said they are worried by Trump. “A divider, responsible for the deepening chasm of racial discord,” said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University poll of 1,412 voters nationwide.

“That is the inescapable characterization of President Trump from voters who see race relations deteriorating on his watch,” Malloy said. African-American voters tend to back Democrats and Hillary Clinton won 88 per cent of the black vote in the November 2016 election while Trump picked up just eight percent, according to exit polls. — American people is our chief concern,” a senior US official told reporters on a call to announce the new figure.

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