--- title: Donald Trump Support with Black Voters: 1%, Quinnipiac Finds description: Republican nominee Donald Trump has 1% (yes, out of 100%) of support from black voters, finds a new Quinnipiac poll. canonical: https://time.com/4389251/donald-trump-1-percent-support-poll/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-30T13:32:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:59.994Z article:section: Politics og:title: Grand Total of Donald Trump's Support from Black Voters: 1% og:description: Republican nominee Donald Trump has 1% (yes, out of 100%) of support from black voters, finds a new Quinnipiac poll. og:url: https://time.com/4389251/donald-trump-1-percent-support-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt07639ac501f187a2/69889a2cab6d7771806aa46d/donald-trump-poll-shows-black-support-1-percent.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: donald trump poll shows black support 1 percent og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Grand Total of Donald Trump's Support from Black Voters: 1% twitter:description: Republican nominee Donald Trump has 1% (yes, out of 100%) of support from black voters, finds a new Quinnipiac poll. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt07639ac501f187a2/69889a2cab6d7771806aa46d/donald-trump-poll-shows-black-support-1-percent.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Poll Finds Grand Total of Donald Trump's Support with Black Voters: 1% > Sponsored content. 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Donald Trump, presumptive Republican presidential nominee, gestures at Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeen, U.K, on Saturday, June 25, 2016. Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Jun 30, 2016 1:32 PM UTC Republican nominee Donald Trump has 1% (yes, out of 100%) of support from black voters, finds a new [Quinnipiac poll](http://www.qu.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/national/release-detail?). By comparison, 91% of black voters backed presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. The poll showed Clinton leading with 42 percentage points over Trump’s 40 overall, and qualified that these returns were too close to call. Trump had support of 47% of white voters polled over Clinton’s 30%, while Clinton beat Trump with Hispanic voters by winning 50-33%. Republican nominees [traditionally have not won](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-1-black-voter-support-quinnipiac-poll-article-1.2692639) the majority of support from African American voters, but they’ve done better than Trump is polling now: Mitt Romney won 6% of the black vote in 2012, John McCain won 4% in 2008, and George W. Bush won 11% in 2004. “You’re not going to find a lot of black people who openly support Donald Trump,” Trump supporter Pastor Mark Burns, an African-American preacher from South Carolina, told the [New York _Daily News_](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-1-black-voter-support-quinnipiac-poll-article-1.2692639)_._ “If they openly supported Donald Trump, they’d get viciously attacked within their own community.” \[[_NY Daily News_](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-1-black-voter-support-quinnipiac-poll-article-1.2692639)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4389251/donald-trump-1-percent-support-poll/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4389251/donald-trump-1-percent-support-poll/"},"headline":"Poll Finds Grand Total of Donald Trump's Support with Black Voters: 1%","datePublished":"2016-06-30T13:32:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:59.994Z","description":"According to the new Quinnipiac University poll","url":"https://time.com/4389251/donald-trump-1-percent-support-poll/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election","politics","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt07639ac501f187a2/69889a2cab6d7771806aa46d/donald-trump-poll-shows-black-support-1-percent.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Zorthian","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt07639ac501f187a2/69889a2cab6d7771806aa46d/donald-trump-poll-shows-black-support-1-percent.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"donald trump poll shows black support 1 percent","caption":"donald trump poll shows black support 1 percent","creditText":"Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4389251/donald-trump-1-percent-support-poll/","name":"Poll Finds Grand Total of Donald Trump's Support with Black Voters: 1%"}}]}] ```