Americans have mixed views about how the news media cover Biden’s, Trump’s ages
Similar shares of U.S. adults believe news organizations are giving too much attention (32%) or too little attention (29%) to Biden’s age.
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Similar shares of U.S. adults believe news organizations are giving too much attention (32%) or too little attention (29%) to Biden’s age.
More than half of Americans (58%) say they are following news about candidates for the 2024 presidential election very or fairly closely.
What does the 2020 electorate look like politically, demographically and religiously as the race enters its final days?
There are differences among Democrats in perceptions of the front-runners’ political views by race and ethnicity, age, education and ideology.
Americans inhabited different information environments, with wide gaps in how they viewed the election and COVID-19.
Most Americans (71%) have heard of a conspiracy theory that alleges that powerful people intentionally planned the coronavirus outbreak.
In studying voters’ views of election fraud, we found these views varied by whether people got their news from the Trump campaign.
A majority of voters said it is very or somewhat important to them to get messages from the presidential campaigns about important issues.
59% of Americans say made-up information that is intended to mislead causes a “great deal” of confusion about the 2020 presidential election.
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.
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