SHOCK POLL: Half of All Voters Agree With Trump’s Hitler-Echoing ‘Poisoning the Blood’ Rant — Including 81% of Republicans

A new poll shows that a shocking number of voters, including an overwhelming majority of Republicans, agree with Donald Trump’s rhetoric when he claims immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of America.

The analysis from CBS News and YouGov indicates that the former president’s support among Republican primary voters has reached new heights, polling at 69 percent to Ron DeSantis’ 14 percent and Nikki Haley’s 12 percent. While Haley is shown to be faring the best against President Joe Biden in a hypothetical general election matchup (Haley leads Biden by 8, while Trump leads by just 2), the poll also shows that Republican voters are not dissuaded by Trump’s legal troubles, nor the criticism for his increasingly incendiary political rhetoric.

But the most shocking result in the poll stemmed from a question about a recent Trump comment. Last month, Trump took his anti-immigrant vitriol to a new level in a campaign speech where he said immigrants from Africa and Asia are “poisoning the blood of our country” and inundating America with crime and mental illness. The remarks were fiercely condemned by Trump’s critics, many of whom noted the parallels between his words and those of Adolf Hitler.

Yet despite the widespread denunciation, the CBS poll found that 97 percent of “MAGA voters” agreed with Trump’s “poisoning the blood” comments, as did 65 percent of non-MAGA Republicans. Combined, the poll determined that 81 percent of all Republican primary voters agree with Trump on this. And nearly of all voters — 47 percent — are on board with the comments too. Only a narrow majority of 53 percent of all voters said they disagree Trump’s immigrant remarks:

On Trump’s use of the phrase “poisoning the blood of the country” when describing immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally…
most voters overall disagree with that, but 8 in 10 Republican primary voters agree. https://t.co/wil67NXG2E pic.twitter.com/a0f7AIeSpa

— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) January 14, 2024

The poll also found that 55 percent of Trump’s diehard supporters and 30 percent of non-MAGA voters want him to prosecute his political opponents if he wins reelection. On the whole, Trump’s base remains the most sturdy, for a combined 85 percent of his voters are “strongly” supportive while non-Trump voters are much less enthusiastic, with 44 percent of them saying their support is either “somewhat” or “not too strong.”

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