Trump is wrong—his approval among black and white voters is tanking
tulc(MAGA by being wrong about almost everything?)Trump tagged Fox News in his tweet, apparently indicating he got that polling information from the news outlet. The tweet itself is a blend of misleading and false information, according to the New York Times.
The details in Trump's tweet appear to have reached Trump via a Fox News segment that day. On Fox and Friends Tuesday morning, co-anchor Brian Kilmeade cited a poll without attribution that claimed Trump's approval rating among black Americans had doubled in the past year.
"Believe it or not, through all this negative coverage, they did a survey of 600,000 people about how black America views this president," Kilmeade said. "His numbers have actually doubled."
Kilmeade was likely referring to a poll conducted by the online polling company SurveyMonkey, according to the Times. The company conducted 602,134 interviews with adults across racial lines since Trump's inauguration for the survey.
The survey found that Trump's approval rating among black Americans has not doubled—it has dropped. He's also lost ground with white voters, with non-college educated whites—his best group in 2016—down 10 points to 56 percent approval, and college-educated whites down 8 percent to 40 percent approval, The Atlantic reported citing the same poll.