PPP poll released yesterday: Trump Badly Losing His Fights With Media

[highplainsdem]

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2017/02/trump-badly-losing-his-fights-with-media.html

PPP's newest national poll finds that Donald Trump is losing all of his fights with the media- and voters really think he needs to reduce his cable news consumption.

62% of voters nationally think Trump should keep his cable watching to less than an hour a day, and 82% think he needs to keep it under 2 hours a day. Just 6% of voters in the country think it's a good idea for Trump to spend more than 2 hours a day watching cable news.

Last week Trump declared that the news media was the 'enemy of the American people' but we find that only 35% of voters believe that, to 53% who say that isn't the case. By a 48/44 spread they say it is actually Trump who is the greater threat to the American people than the media. We asked voters who they thought had more credibility between Trump and each of the outlets he singled out for attack last week, and Trump loses out to every one of them by double digits:

Who do you think has more credibility: Donald Trump or…

Winner

New York Times
New York Times, 52/40

NBC
NBC, 51/40

CNN
CNN, 51/41

ABC
ABC, 51/41

CBS
CBS, 51/41

We also in general find that voters find the media outlets Trump considers hostile to him credible, while it finds the outlets more friendly to him less credible.

Outlet
Seen as Credible/Not Credible
Net Credibilibility

CBS
56/31
+25

ABC
56/34
+22

NBC
54/33
+21

New York Times
53/34
+19

CNN
52/37
+15

Fox News
46/40
+6

Daily Caller
6/37
-31

Info Wars
7/41
-34

Breitbart
12/48
-36

All 5 of the outlets Trump singled out for attack last week are seen as credible by majorities of the public. Out of the Trump friendly outlets only Fox News comes out seen as more credible than not, but it is still seen as less credible than all the mainstream outlets Trump targeted in his media attack tweet last week. Meanwhile Daily Caller, Info Wars, and Breitbart clearly still just appeal to fringes of the population even with Trump in the White House- even within his base only 6-20% of voters consider each of those sources to be credible.

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[underpants]

1. But Tucker Carlson is so energetic and charismatic

Seriously, who can resist his magnetism let alone his (sometime actor assisted) informative and insightful news coverage?

[highplainsdem]

2. That insufferably smarmy overage preppy has always been unwatchable. The fact that Faux viewers

like him just shows how stupid and immature they are.

[ailsagirl]

3. "By a 48/44 spread they say it is actually Trump who is the greater threat to the American people"

More irony

It's everywhere

But still not enough people are seeing the light

[highplainsdem]

4. kick