Stunning Poll: Trump Nazi-Echoing ‘Poison Blood/Vermin’ Speeches Make Republicans MORE Likely To Vote For Him

Stunning results from a poll published this month show former President Donald Trump’s Nazi-echoing speeches about “poisoning the blood” and eliminating “vermin” from the U.S. overwhelmingly help him with Republicans in Iowa.

Trump came under fire in October for a passage in his Veterans Day speech in New Hampshire that drew widespread comparisons to the likes of Adolf Hitler, as well as for another rant in which he told an interviewer immigrants were “poisoning the blood” of our country.

Trump is under fire once again after he delivered another Hitler-echoing rant at a rally in Durham, New Hampshire on Saturday in which he accused several groups of non-White immigrants of “poisoning the blood of our country”:

They are poisoning the blood of our country. That’s what they have done. They poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world. Not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world they’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world. They’re pouring into our country.

That speech drew more condemnation. Many news analysts observed that these were all remarks that were planned, not ad-libbed outbursts.

Newly-released results from an NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll could help explain why Trump resurrected the theme so pointedly.

Respondents to the poll — taken December 2-7, before the most recent speech — were asked “Donald Trump has made each of the following statements recently. For each, please tell me if it makes you more likely to support him in the caucuses, less likely, or does it not matter?”

In each case, huge majorities said the statements either made no difference or made them more likely to vote for Trump:

• “The radical left thugs that live like vermin” in the U.S. need to be rooted out – More likely=43 percent / Doesn’t Matter=32 percent / Less Likely=23 percent
• Immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally are “poisoning the blood” of America – More likely=42 percent / Doesn’t Matter=29 percent / Less Likely=28 percent
• To deal with immigration, Trump would authorize “sweeping raids, giant camps and mass deportations” – More likely=50 percent / Doesn’t Matter=22 percent / Less Likely=27 percent

 
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