– The Washington Times – Thursday, March 28, 2019
Democratic lawmakers slammed President Trump’s executive order protecting free speech on college campuses, but American voters of every political affiliation overwhelmingly support the edict, according to a poll.
Nearly three in four voters — 73 percent — favor Mr. Trump’s order last week that required U.S. colleges to protect free speech or risk losing federal research dollars, according to a poll conducted by McLaughlin & Associates for the William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale University.
The Washington Times received a preview of the data.
Most strikingly, the data showed broad agreement with Mr. Trump on college free speech regardless of political party, race, sex or education level.
The deep support on the issue included 42 percent who “strongly favor” the executive order and 31 percent who “somewhat favor” it.
“People are looking at this in a partisan light because it is a Trump proposal and it is almost reflexive for the Democrats to be against it. But this is a nonpartisan issue,” said Jim McLaughlin, president and partner of the polling firm. “You can’t get three-quarters of Americans to agree on too many things. Three-quarters of Americans are concerned enough about free speech that they agree with the president’s order.”
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