Poll: 88% of Trump Voters Believe The Press Is The Enemy

ashley.rae | April 28, 2017
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A recent poll of President Trump’s voters found a vast majority of Trump supporters believe the media are the “enemy of the people.”

The University of Virginia’s Center for Politics Project, in partnership with Public Opinion Strategies, surveyed 1,000 Trump voters from April 4-19.

Asked whether they agree with Trump’s statement that the press “is the enemy of the American people,” 88 percent of respondents said they agree.

Broken down, 45 percent responded they “somewhat agree,” while 42 percent said they “strongly agree.” Only nine percent said they “somewhat disagree” and four percent said they “strongly disagree.”

(Image source: The Center for Politics Project)

A vast majority of Trump voters also believe media criticism of the president is indicative that he’s “on the right track."

Asked, “When you hear the media being critical of Donald Trump, does their criticism make you question your support for him, or does it reinforce that he’s on the right track in terms of shaking things up in Washington, D.C.?” The poll found 88 percent of Trump supporters believe it “reinforces that he’s on the right track,” while 12 percent responded that it makes them question their support for Trump.

(Image source: The Center for Poltiics Project)

While speaking to the survey participants, one woman who previously supported Obama, said the media creates “a lot of racism.”

“The press, obviously, is getting paid by somebody, and they try to make us against each other,” she said. “They create a lot of the racism that's out there, a lot of, you know, like some, well, like somebody got pulled over, and that person got shot by a cop kind of thing. And they go out like looking for that kind of stuff. They look for it to be a white cop that shot a black person versus what about all these white people that are getting shot by white cops or black cops or whatever else?”

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