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.
59% of Americans are following news about the 2020 candidates closely, but far fewer are following it very closely at this stage of the race.
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.
59% of Americans say made-up information that is intended to mislead causes a “great deal” of confusion about the 2020 presidential election.
With Election Day six months away, 52% of Americans are paying fairly close or very close attention to news about the presidential candidates.
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.
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