More than half of Americans are following election news closely, and many are already worn out
More than half of Americans (58%) say they are following news about candidates for the 2024 presidential election very or fairly closely.
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More than half of Americans (58%) say they are following news about candidates for the 2024 presidential election very or fairly closely.
Similar shares of U.S. adults believe news organizations are giving too much attention (32%) or too little attention (29%) to Biden’s age.
Americans inhabited different information environments, with wide gaps in how they viewed the election and COVID-19.
In studying voters’ views of election fraud, we found these views varied by whether people got their news from the Trump campaign.
59% of Americans say made-up information that is intended to mislead causes a “great deal” of confusion about the 2020 presidential election.
Biden supporters are more likely than Trump supporters to be confident their news sources will make the right call in announcing a winner. And partisans remain worlds apart on how well the U.S. has controlled the coronavirus outbreak.
Republicans are about four times as likely as Democrats to say voter fraud has been a major issue with mail-in ballots.
During the first 60 days of the new administration, roughly half of stories about the Biden administration mentioned Donald Trump in some way.
U.S. adults in this group are less likely to get the facts right about COVID-19 and politics and more likely to hear some unproven claims.
With Election Day six months away, 52% of Americans are paying fairly close or very close attention to news about the presidential candidates.
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