More voters classify BLM unrest as riots rather than protests: poll

New York Post ^ | September 13, 2020 | Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

[karpov]

More voters consider the unrest in three US cities stemming from Black Lives Matter demonstrations to be riots rather than protests, a new Fox News poll shows.

The poll, published Sunday, found that 48 percent of likely voters surveyed described violence in New York, Portland, and Kenosha, Wisconsin to be riots, compared to 40 percent who saw them as protests.

The results break down in part along party lines, with 68 percent of Republicans calling the unrest riots, compared to 30 percent of Democrats.

Along racial lines, more than half of white voters, or 52 percent, saw the protests as riots. Meanwhile, 62 percent of black respondents and 48 percent of Hispanics described them as protests, the poll shows.

Thirty-nine percent of those polled also blamed the clashes with police on “left-wing radicals,” with 33 percent saying “right-wing radicals” were at fault, according to the poll. Nine percent blaming both.

However, more likely voters said they trust Democratic nominee Joe Biden over President Trump to bring the country together, by a 54-40 percent margin, according to the results.

The poll surveyed 1,311 registered voters and 1,191 likely voters by phone and in live interviews between Sept. 7-10 from a random sample.

[gibsonguy]

Yeah the non threatening Joe act may be why he is doing better with Seniors then expected. That and the SS lies the DNC is pushing.

[blueplum]

If it’s at 1am - it’s a riot. If it involves burning, dumpster fires, mattress fires, breaking glass, throwing fireworks, ballbearings or ballons filled with whatnot, breaking security cameras or lampposts, blocking traffic, assaulting motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists, tresspassing on private residential property or grafitti and disturbing the peace, it’s a riot.

The Supreme Court has upheld that protests can be limited to time and place. There is no unbridled right to disrupt.