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Half of Americans believe President Trump is a racist — a point of view shared by a large majority of blacks and a majority of Hispanics, according to a new poll out Tuesday.

Fifty-one percent of Americans overall say Trump is a racist, while 45 percent say he isn’t, a Quinnipiac University National poll showed.

Among blacks that percentage is 80 percent to 11 percent and among Hispanics it is 55 percent to 44 percent.

But 50 percent of white voters say he isn’t while 46 percent say the president is.

Men by a 55 to 41 percent margin say Trump isn’t racist, and women by 59 to 36 percent believe he is.

“While half of voters think President Donald Trump is racist, religion shows an even bigger divide. Only 21 percent of white Evangelicals believe the president is racist. Compare that to 63 percent of voters who don’t affiliate with any organized religion,” said Mary Snow, polling analyst for the poll.

On immigration, 49 percent said the Trump administration’s policies are motivated by a “sincere interest in controlling our borders,” while 41 percent they are prompted by “racist beliefs.”

Asked about the death penalty, which Attorney General William Barr last week directed the federal government to resume, 54 percent of respondents said they preferred a life sentence with no chance of parole over capital punishment.

Thirty-three percent opted for the death penalty.

But the poll also showed that support for the death penalty has fallen in the past 15 years.

Asked in December 2004 which punishment they preferred for people convicted of murder, 42 percent said the death penalty, while 46 percent said life in prison.

The survey was conducted between July 25 and 28 and polled 1,306 voters nationwide.

It has a plus/minus 3.4 percentage-point margin of error.

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