When two far-right activists in Boston beat a homeless Latino man, with one saying that they had acted in Trump’s name, the candidate commented that some of his followers are “passionate.” A poll of Trump supporters found that 66% believe that Obama is a Muslim, and 61% that he was not born in the US (a claim that Trump continued to trumpet long after it had been disproved).
与此同时，特朗普受到了共和党内部全方位的支持：温和派和保守派、受过高等教育者、福音派、男性和女性。他的支持者还包括白人至上论者：6月，特朗普得到了美国最大的新纳粹“新闻”网站The Daily Stormer的支持 。波士顿的两位极右翼活跃分子殴打了一位无家可归的拉丁裔男子，其中一人说他们是代表特朗普行凶的，特朗普评论说，他的一些追随者“相当热情”一项关于特朗普支持者的民调 发现，66%相信奥巴马是穆斯林，61%相信他非出生在美国（这一点早已被证伪，但此后特朗普仍然在宣传这一点）。