AP-NORC poll: Few Americans trust Trump's info on pandemic

[turbinetree]

Source: Associated Press

By JULIE PACE and HANNAH FINGERHUT
9 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has made himself the daily spokesman for the nation’s coronavirus response. Yet few Americans regularly look to or trust Trump as a source of information on the pandemic, according to a new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Just 28% of Americans say they’re regularly getting information from Trump about the coronavirus and only 23% say they have high levels of trust in what the president is telling the public. Another 21% trust him a moderate amount.

Confidence in Trump is higher among his supporters, though only about half of Republicans say they have a lot of trust in Trump’s information on the pandemic — and just 22% say they have little or no trust in what he says about the COVID-19 outbreak.

But even as many Republicans question Trump’s credibility during the pandemic, the overwhelming majority — 82% — say they still approve of how he’s doing. That’s helped keep the president’s overall approval rating steady at 42%, about where it’s been for the past few months.


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The turd blossom has lied over 18,000 times....He has gotten up on that podium trying to save his suicidal criminal enterprise.
And this country is marching towards 1,000,000 people having been infected and the VA and the nursing homes are being ravaged............and he's at 23% approval.............

[Karadeniz]

1. People don't like to admit they blew it.

[Warpy]

2. Lincoln was right, you can't fool all of the people all of the time

That blustering boob thought he was up to the job. He's not. Too many people out there know someone who has been struggling with this virus and many know someone who has died.

His media act is wearing very thin these days.

[flibbitygiblets]

3. 60% of Republicans KNOW they're being lied to at least some of the time, and they're cool with that

Talk about cognitive dissonance. 23% of R's trust him "highly", but 82% approve of the job he's doing

[sandensea]

4. Sure - because he slaps minorities in the face.

They love it.

If tomorrow morning, hard evidence were to emerge that he, in fact, ordered this last year as a bio-warfare attack on China (against the objections of even the most hard-nosed generals), they'd still back him.

Because he validates their bigotry.

[Stallion]

5. That's Got to Be Close to a Record Low

there have been some Presidents who have been disliked but to have trust levels so low is amazing

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Can't say I blame them