In a national survey of 1,362 registered voters, 50 percent of respondents said the presumptive GOP nominee’s statements about Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who was born in Indiana to parents who emigrated from Mexico, were racist.

The respondents who declined to label the comments racist were more or less evenly split between saying that they are not racist “but still unacceptable” (19 percent), not racist and “acceptable” (16 percent), or they didn’t know or offered no opinion (15 percent).

Whether voters were likely to say the comments were racist was influenced heavily by partisanship. Three-fourths of Democrats said the comments were racist, compared with 45 percent of independents and 27 percent of Republicans.