Mary Kay Linge
Donald Trump is gaining support among
African-American voters — whose enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton is eroding, a
tracking poll released Saturday revealed.
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Donald Trump and Hillary
Clinton Photo: AP/ Reuters
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Trump saw a 16.5
percentage-point increase in backing from African-American voters in a Los
Angeles Times/University of Southern California tracking poll, up from 3.1
percent on Sept. 10 to 19.6 percent through Friday.
Meanwhile, the same poll
showed Clinton’s support among that group plummeting from 90.4 percent on Sept.
10 to 71.4 percent.
Clinton’s nearly 20-point
crash began Sunday, said Dan Schnur of USC. Sunday was the day Clinton was
recorded collapsing while entering a Secret Service van at a 9/11 event.
The survey, which spanned
through Friday, included the days in which Trump reignited the divisive
“birther” issue — which critics contend is a thinly veiled attempt to undermine
the legitimacy of the country’s first black president.
Late Wednesday, Trump had
refused to acknowledge that President Obama was born in the United States,
demurring on the topic in a Washington Post interview published the next day.
But at a bizarre press
conference at Trump International, his new hotel in Washington, DC, on Friday,
the tycoon conceded, “President Barack Obama was born in the United States,
period.”
For the week, the poll found a
6-point rise for Trump. The Republican is now at 47.2 percent of the vote to
Clinton’s 41.2 percent.
“It’s the largest shift we’ve
seen in a one-week period since we began polling in July,” Schnur said.
Mary Kay Linge, New York Post, September 18, 2016 | 7:02am
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