Eric Trump says '95% of this country' is behind Trump's racist tweets. Polls suggest otherwise.


President Trump's racist tweets are apparently just his defense against an ongoing culture war.
At least that's what Trump's son Eric Trump suggested in Tuesday appearance on Fox & Friends. After Trump's attack on four democratic congresswomen led to his official condemnation in the House, Eric Trump claimed "95 percent of this country is behind him" in this message despite polls showing the opposite.
During Tuesday's Fox & Friends episode, host Brian Kilmeade declared that he "believe[s] calling the president a racist is personally offensive." Eric Trump then arrived, praised his father for "fighting for American pride and standing up for the national anthem," and spouted a very inaccurate statistic about the president's approval in this so-called battle.
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As a Reuters/Ipsos poll published Wednesday shows, the president's overall approval hasn't changed since before he told the congresswomen to "go back" to the countries they came from. Republican support, meanwhile, did jump five percent from a week earlier, the poll showed. A separate USA Today/Ipsos poll also showed that 68 percent of people aware of the tweets considered them "offensive," though 57 percent of Republicans said they agreed with Trump's messages.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll surveyed 1,113 U.S. adults online on July 15 and July 16, with a 3 percent margin of error overall and 5 percent for Democrats or Republicans. The USA Today/Ipsos poll surveyed 1,005 people online on July 15 and July 16, and it has a 3.5 percent margin of error.
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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.
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