Donald Trump's surge in polls points to ‘very dangerous political times’: Activist
US presidential candidate Donald Trump's surge in opinion polls despite his racist comments illustrates that racism remains a major problem in the United States, an African American human rights activist says.
“Donald Trump’s surging in the polls is very frightening for person of color such as myself,” said Darrell Davis, Director of the Westchester Grassroots Coalition, a human rights organization in Westchester County, New York.
“I don’t know that he’s going to be elected president, but I think we’re in some very dangerous political times if this country is even leaning towards him,” Davis said in a phone interview with Press TV on Monday.
Trump “is openly racist, he spends most of his time in the media attacking people of color, he’s [still] soaring in the polls,” he added.
“So it says a lot about today’s climate in America, it says a lot about America as a nation, it’s still grappling with racial issues, it’s still grappling with racism,” the activist noted.
“Despite eight years of an African American president, instead of going forward, we’ve gone backwards.”
The latest national ABC News/Washington Post poll released on Monday shows Trump continues to dominate the contest for the Republican nomination in the race for the White House.
Among registered voters, 33 percent of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents now favor Trump to be the party's nominee for US president, a nine percent jump since July and a 29 percentage point increase since May.
Even as Trump’s lead for his party’s nomination has grown, 60 percent of Americans believe he is unqualified to serve as president and the same percentage say he lacks the personality and temperament to succeed in the White House.
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