Amid Joe Biden’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day on Thursday, a new pollNewsNation and Decision Desk Headquarters found not only do 58 percent of Americans disapprove of his job as President and 55 percent disapprove of how he’s handled COVID-19, but only 10 percent trust his friends in the liberal media for information about the pandemic and virus.
This poll was not shown on Thursday’s flagship network night newscasts.
You can find more information here NewsNation: PrimeMarnie Hughes, the host of the show, said that the poll highlighted the high level of satisfaction with the product. “[t]rust or the lack thereof” Major institutions “the media, unfortunately” It is “one thing that they don’t trust,” leading correspondent Tom Negovan to quip he “[felt] a little bit personally attacked…but that makes sense when you think about it.”
Negovan asked the question that has a larger margin of error, and it was about who or what group/person(s) Americans trust.
When it comes to information about COVID-19, “which of the following sources would you say you trust? Select all that apply.” The margin of error about 5.8 percent. Dr. Anthony Fauci coming in about 30.1 percent — 30.8 percent. The CDC and FDA account for about half of the federal health authorities. Your doctor outranks President Biden by 15 points, 63.2percent and 10.2 percent respectively. It hurts quite a bit but the doctors admit that it is difficult right now.
Negovan conceded the findings show it’s not “a surprise” that, if people are going to “trust someone” about their health, it’d be their own doctor because of the “personal relationship.”
White House correspondent Allison Harris described the results of Thursday’s poll when it was published on Thursday morning. Morning in AmericaThis is the result of the poll “found that Americans…polled feel overwhelmingly negative about the President’s handling of the pandemic as well as the direction the pandemic is moving in.”
Harris claimed that Harris had a margin error of just 3.08 percent for most questions. “[m]ore than half of people polled — 52 percent — think the pandemic is never going to end” with both of those Biden numbers on how he’s handled COVID-19 and his job overall creeping closer to 60 percent.
Harris said they “could be motivated in part by the fact that nearly half of these people — 48 percent — say they know a family member or close friend who has either been hospitalized with COVID or has died from COVID.”
The poll also showed that around 80 percent of respondents (or 79.8%) were either interested in this topic. “somewhat” Oder “very concerned” about the virus, although that number shots to 92 percent (91.9) when the same question was posed about level of concern on inflation.
As Harris reported later in the show, the economy and inflation are therefore a top priority for voters with a wide margin saying they’re worse off than they were a year ago (click “expand”):
As concerning as Americans’ anxiety about COVID is, the results of this poll are worse when you consider how Americans feel about rising inflation and prices. 45% of those polled said they are more concerned about rising prices than they were about the pandemic, which more than 50% of respondents believe will never end. This is putting enormous pressure on the Federal Reserve chairman and President Biden. Yesterday President Biden said that there was still work to be done on reducing price increases. The poll also shows that voters worry about unemployment. Only 1/5th of voters believe they are better off financial than they were last year. The same percentage of voters think that they are actually less fortunate.
This is bad news for Democrats and President Biden, especially since it’s early in the campaign for midterms. Five points more people polled favored Republican candidates. While a lot could change over the next 10 months, President Trump and the current administration will have to do a great deal of work, particularly since our poll shows that the President’s approval rating is at an all-time high. 58 percent.
Morning in America did acknowledge two findings in Biden’s favor with Harris citing “more than 70 percent — support[ing[ some kind of mask mandate” and Bankert stating “just over 56 percent are at least somewhat supportive of vaccine mandates in public places” while “nearly 44 percent are at least somewhat opposed to them.”
Back on Prime, Hughes spoke with UC San Francisco’s Dr. Monica Gandhi about what the press could do differently and some of why the federal government has failed to keep the peace on COVID-19 (click “expand”):
HUGHES: [T]he report card is out right now for the — for the first semester of school. Our media score is really low. It sounds like you received an A. Let me now ask your response to the trust level question. This is people’s health, and trust levels are split.
GANDHI: Yeah. And, you know, to be fair, the CDC, the FDA and the NIH have had really different messages at times from the pandemic and they had different messages on masks, they had different messages on booster — the necessity for booster shots. They said they were going to upgrade masks then they didn’t. Testing? They didn’t, so, actually, we can’t blame people to say we have three major groups that help form our health — NIH, FDA, and CDC — and they have publicly played out confusion.
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GANDHI: [W]e do have a public health messaging problem in this country where if we only got couple people on TV and they’re not saying the same things, it’s really confusing…I think it’s everyone’s doing your research now because I’m not getting it fro from messaging, from CDC.
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GANDHI : That’s the missing piece. I believe that is what we have been lacking. Clean communication between the people and public that you trust, taking the time to answer questions and not just giving soundbites.
HUGHES, Well, it’s not like the media isn’t a significant part of all this. According to the poll, it does. Only 10% trust media. Although I’m not sure if this includes social media, it begs the question: How large was that net? What can we do differently to improve the reporting on the pandemic, and the way we present the story? You mention soundbites. The facts are what we report. We simply report what is told to us. Sometimes we aren’t sure of all details.
GANDHI : This is actually the same as what you do in this program. You take time to explain what the original research was and then you let other people do it. Like, it just takes more times to — because medicine is not actually easy. It is never an easy thing. It takes, like, the couple minutes to explain things — the immune system or whatever needs to be explained, so giving people more time.
You can view the complete transcript provided by NewsNation on January 13. Click here.
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