The polling comes amid President Donald Trump’s escalating war on diversity initiatives. On his first day back in the White House he deemed DEI programs discriminatory and moved to eradicate them from the public sector. Democrats for years have led the pro-diversity push, but have grappled with how to significantly counter Trump’s rhetoric and punitive actions, particularly on campuses. Diversity policies have become more politically divisive in recent years, with the term DEI itself becoming highly polarizing as it has been “aggressively criticized by the Trump administration as being deeply problematic,” Possibility Lab executive director Amy Lerman said. About 71...