--- title: Donald Trump Supporters: Minorities Have Too Much Influence description: A new ABC News/Washington Post poll reveals that 38% of Trump supporters believe minorities have "too much influence" in American society canonical: https://time.com/4511625/donald-trump-supporters-minorities-influence-poll/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-28T16:01:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:33.732Z article:section: Politics og:title: 38% of Donald Trump Supporters Say Minorities Have 'Too Much Influence' og:description: Only 9% of Hillary Clinton supporters agree og:url: https://time.com/4511625/donald-trump-supporters-minorities-influence-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8a7a87924c631afa/6988a7ef196cf47e0303d5e0/donald-trump2.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-TRUMP og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 38% of Donald Trump Supporters Say Minorities Have 'Too Much Influence' twitter:description: Only 9% of Hillary Clinton supporters agree twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8a7a87924c631afa/6988a7ef196cf47e0303d5e0/donald-trump2.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 38% of Donald Trump Supporters Say Minorities Have 'Too Much Influence' by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Sep 28, 2016 4:01 PM UTC  US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Orlando Melbourne International Airport in Melbourne, Florida, on September 27, 2016. US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Orlando Melbourne International Airport in Melbourne, Florida, on September 27, 2016.Jewel Samad—AFP/Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Sep 28, 2016 4:01 PM UTC A new [ABC News/Washington Post poll](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/views-race-gender-mark-stark-divide-clinton-trump/story?id=42398850) reveals that [38% of Trump supporters](http://www.langerresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/1182a2Groupinfluence.pdf) believe minorities have “too much influence” in American society. Only 9% of Clinton supporters agreed. About half of [Clinton](http://time.com/4511446/hillary-clinton-latinos-campaign-ads/) supporters believe that men (50%) and whites (53%) hold too much influence, while the majority of [Trump](http://time.com/4508889/presidential-debate-1970s-bias-donald-trump/) supporters believe those groups hold about the right amount of influence. Some 21% of Trump supporters believe whites hold “too little” influence, compared with 7% of Clinton supporters. Clinton supporters were much more likely to say that women (58%) hold too little influence than Trump supporters (21%). Similar levels of both groups believe men hold too little influence—10% of Clinton supporters and 8% of Trump supporters. The poll was conducted from Sept. 19 to 22 in English and Spanish, surveying 1,001 adults, 651 of whom are likely voters. The margin of sampling error was 3.5 points, and 4.5 points for likely voters. \[[ABC News](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/views-race-gender-mark-stark-divide-clinton-trump/story?id=42398850)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4511625/donald-trump-supporters-minorities-influence-poll/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4511625/donald-trump-supporters-minorities-influence-poll/"},"headline":"38% of Donald Trump Supporters Say Minorities Have 'Too Much Influence'","datePublished":"2016-09-28T16:01:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:33.732Z","description":"Only 9% of Clinton supporters agree","url":"https://time.com/4511625/donald-trump-supporters-minorities-influence-poll/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8a7a87924c631afa/6988a7ef196cf47e0303d5e0/donald-trump2.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8a7a87924c631afa/6988a7ef196cf47e0303d5e0/donald-trump2.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-TRUMP","caption":"US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-TRUMP","creditText":"Jewel Samad—AFP/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/4511625/donald-trump-supporters-minorities-influence-poll/","name":"38% of Donald Trump Supporters Say Minorities Have 'Too Much Influence'"}}]}] ```