White America reckons with racism: Polls and what it means for 2020

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🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Public opinion polls that show support for the Black Lives Matter movement has jumped almost as much in the last two weeks as it has in the past two years. Guest host Eugene Daniels and national political reporter Alex Thompson talk about what that means — plus, identity politics from Trump and Biden.Eugene Daniels is a political reporter for POLITICO.Alex Thompson is a national political reporter for POLITICO.Annie Rees is a producer for POLITICO audio. Jenny Ament is the senior producer of POLITICO audio.Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Every single time you go around the Thanksgiving dinner table you guys are having the same debate.
0:12.0	Look at the Washington Post, the polling today.
0:14.6	I know, but polling is not voting.
0:16.4	These mass potatoes are so creamy.
0:18.4	You have something to add?
0:19.5	I could never make a good pop roast.
0:21.8	You need good beef. 76% of Americans, including 71% of white people,
0:28.4	called racism and discrimination a big problem in the United States.
0:32.8	I'm encouraged and inspired by that poll.
0:35.6	And smashed potatoes are so creamy.
0:37.6	Spain has good meat.
0:38.6	Very mashed.
0:39.6	I get it.
0:40.6	Attitudes are changing.
0:42.0	A majority of Americans now appear to be convinced by statistics showing African Americans
0:47.2	are more likely to be brutalized by police.
0:50.4	Look at these numbers from a Monmouth poll.
0:53.0	What do you make of that poll?
0:57.0	Today, how racism has become a dinner table,
1:03.5	Thanksgiving table, Christmas table, 4th July table,
1:07.0	pick your table, issue, gaining momentum in national polls.
1:11.5	That's why I've got Alex Thompson here to translate these polling
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