Trump backers favor Confederate flag

A new poll shows 38 percent of Donald Trump’s supporters in South Carolina wish the South had won the Civil War. Another 38 percent say they aren’t sure, while just 24 percent say they are glad the Union won, the poll by Public Policy Polling released Tuesday finds. Seventy percent of Trump backers also believe that the Confederate battle flag should still be flying over their state Capitol. Lawmakers voted to take down the flag last summer following a mass shooting of parishioners at a black church in Charleston/ The Hill . More here.