CORNELIUS, N.C. — On a humid Wednesday morning in this leafy lakeside suburb of Charlotte, American flags fluttered from porches along Main Street, traffic was slow, and the occasional resident ambled out for a walk.
From North Carolina to Pennsylvania to Arizona, interviews this week with more than two dozen suburban voters in critical swing states revealed abhorrence for Trump’s growing efforts to fuel white resentment with inflammatory rhetoric on race and cultural heritage. The discomfort was palpable even among voters who also dislike the recent toppling of Confederate statues or who say they agree with some of Trump’s policies.
“It’s a disgrace,” said Jane Scilovati, a schoolteacher from Devon, Pennsylvania, along Philadelphia’s wealthy Main Line. She voted for Trump in 2016 but said she now regrets the decision. She called the president’s recent handling of racial issues “deplorable.” In the Monmouth poll this week, among white Americans with college degrees, only 13% said that Trump’s response to the protesters had improved the situation. Seventy-six percent of these college-educated white Americans said that he had made things worse.
He has defended the Confederate flag and falsely accused a Black NASCAR driver of perpetrating a “hoax” involving a noose. He has described the phrase “Black Lives Matter” as a “symbol of hate.” In an address last week at Mount Rushmore, the president painted a dark portrait of a nation whose values were under attack by “the radical left, the Marxists, the anarchists, the agitators, the looters” — an echo of his inaugural address depiction of “American carnage.
She held that view even as she also expressed discomfort with the destruction of Confederate statues. They may belong in museums where they can be “put in context, not up on a pedestal,” she said, but should not be destroyed. Asked about Trump’s remarks in defense of the Confederate flag , she said, “Trying to hold tight to it as a national narrative is tone deaf.”
In a statement, a Trump campaign spokesman, Tim Murtaugh, defended the president’s record on race, noting his work on criminal justice reform and saying that his economic policies had benefited people of color.
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