Michael Tesler, associate professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, [writes]: But the most important reason why rising racial tensions will not help Trump is Trump himself. … The public views Trump as a racially divisive figure. Two-thirds of Americans say that the presumptive Republican nominee is “unfairly biased” against minority groups, and a slim majority thought that his attack on the Mexican American judge who is presiding over the Trump University lawsuit was “racist.”

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