President Trump has sought to fan fears about lower property values and crime, but polls suggest his general statements are not resonating locally.
President Trump’s effort to court suburban women by promising to protect their neighborhoods is encountering one sizable hitch: Most suburban women say their neighborhoods aren’t particularly under threat.
At least, not in the ways the president has described.
Their communities feel safe to them, and they’re not too concerned about poorer neighbors moving in, according to polls in some key battleground states by The New York Times and Siena College. They say in a national Monmouth University poll that racial integration is important to them, and unlikely to harm property values or safety. In interviews, many have never heard of the federal fair-housing rule encouraging integration that the president has often cited by name in arguing that Joe Biden would abolish the suburbs.
They’re not even all that worked up about the idea of new apartments nearby, sullying suburbs dominated by single-family homes. Continue reading.