Poll: Majority believe President Trump's response to Charlottesville wasn't strong enough

More than half of Americans believe that President Trump hasn't responded strongly enough to the violent clashes in Charlottesville, Va., according to a new poll out Wednesday.

The NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist poll found that 52% believed that the president's response was not strong enough, compared to 27% who said it was strong enough and 21% saying they were unsure.

The poll was conducted Monday and Tuesday, during a week in which the president has come under fire for his response to the protests of white supremacists in Charlottesville and counter-protesters. After initially saying Saturday that "many sides" could be blamed for the violence, the president was criticized for not outright condemning white nationalist groups.

On Monday, he seemed to try to correct this by declaring racism evil and specifically naming the KKK and neo-Nazis.

But Trump then doubled down on his original comments on Tuesday, blaming both the left wing protesters and white supremacists for Saturday's events, while absolving some by saying there were "some very fine people on both sides."

Additionally, 67% those surveyed believed that the driving of a car into a crowd of protesters, resulting in the death of one woman, should be investigated as domestic terrorism. Another 21% said they did not think it was domestic terrorism and 12% said they weren't sure.

Still the president himself was not decisive on what to call the attack.

""I think the driver of the car is a disgrace to himself, his family and this country, and that is — you can call it terrorism. You can call it murder, you can call it whatever you want," he said. "I would call it as fastest one to come up with a good verdict. There is a question, is it murder, is it terrorism? And then you get into legal semantics."

The poll surveyed 1,125 adults in the contiguous United States and has an error margin of 2.9 points. Read the full results here.