Trump’s Confederate Embrace; Will Smith Remembers: Protest Wrap
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President Donald Trump’s embrace of the Confederate battle flag, statues and names on military bases might fire up his political base, but the moves may have alienated swing voters. Trump’s poll numbers have sunk in recent weeks amid dissatisfaction with his handling of police brutality against Black Americans, compounded by his management of the pandemic.
In Virginia, nearly 80% of the faculty at Washington and Lee University voted in favor of a resolution seeking to remove Robert E. Lee’s name from the university, the Washington Post reported. In Richmond, the Confederacy’s former capital is rushing to remove statues seen as symbols of oppression. In North Carolina, a crew took down a monument of an angel holding a Confederate soldier.