The New York Times Poll, ‘Immigration’, and American Democracy ‘Under Threat’

Trump got to that 54 percent confidence rating even though half of women and college graduates and 56 percent of non-white voters believe that Harris would do a better job handling immigration.

That's because an overwhelming proportion of male respondents - 63 percent - trusted Trump to do a better job on immigration than Harris would, as did 59 percent of white voters and 60 percent of respondents without a bachelor's degree.

There was a five-point gender split in the polling on the immigration question in the Times poll as 52 percent of respondents were female but only 47 percent of males.

That directly followed a separate question, which revealed that a whopping 76 percent of likely voters believe that "American democracy is under threat" - a rather remarkable response in and of itself.

The second-leading "Threat to democracy" identified was "The government/government corruption/non-specific politicians/leaders", the choice of 14 percent of respondents, including 17 percent of men, 18 percent of likely Trump voters, and one quarter of voters who were neither white, Black, or Hispanic.

Which brings me to the third-leading choice: "Immigrants/immigration", identified as a current threat to democracy by 7 percent of those polled, including 8 percent of voters aged 45 and above, 11 percent of non-college whites, and 13 percent of likely Trump and GOP voters, respectively.

Perhaps some "Immigration is a threat to American democracy" voters are plain, flat-out xenophobes, but I seriously doubt that given that even 3 percent of Hispanics said that immigration is the key threat to our commonweal. 

https://cis.org/Arthur/New-York-Times-Poll-Immigration-and-American-Democracy-Under-Threat