Black Lives Matter Is More Popular Than Donald Trump

National support for Black Lives Matter has soared — while President Donald Trump’s approval rating has plunged ten points in a single month. The movement for racial justice is more popular than Trump's presidency.

Black Lives Matter Protests Held In Cities Nationwide

Demonstrators march down Pennsylvania Avenue during a protest against police brutality and racism on June 6, 2020 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer / Getty


As protests in all fifty states continue to rile America’s political establishment, a new poll suggests that the growing mobilizations against police brutality and structural racism may also be aiding a titanic shift in public opinion.

This week, an online and telephone survey conducted by Rasmussen found that an astonishing 62 percent of likely voters now have a favorable opinion of Black Lives Matter (BLM), while 32 percent have a very favorable one. The result represents a stunning turnaround in how many Americans perceive the movement compared with even a few years ago. A similar poll conducted by Rasmussen in June 2016, for example, found that only 37 percent of likely voters had a favorable view of BLM, while a majority viewed it unfavorably.

Some 30 percent of those surveyed this month, meanwhile, said they had developed a more favorable view of BLM since national protests ignited following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. In another apparent shift, a majority of likely voters now also believe that black Americans receive unfair treatment from the cops, while the number who believe there are too few police has fallen from a high of 51 percent in 2014 to 38 percent today.

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