Majority of Independents Deplore Media’s Politicization of the Wuhan Virus

The people are catching on. The media is politicizing crisis not combating it. A new poll of U.S. adults from Rasmussen Reports has found that people are taking notice, with most rating the media’s coverage as either “fair” or “poor.”

Majority of Independents Aren’t On Board With Media’s Politicization of the Wuhan Virus

By Brandon Morse, Red State, March 17, 2020:

Majority of Independents Aren’t On Board With Media’s Politicization of the Wuhan Virus

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As President Donald Trump points to CNN’s Jim Acosta, a White House aide takes the microphone from him during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

“Never let a crisis go to waste.” That famous quote has become a hard rule in the left’s playbook and they use it to the point of abusing it. It doesn’t matter what it is, be it the loss of innocent life at the hands of a madman or a pandemic that started in a foreign country and now threatens ours.

The media has been working overtime to see to it that the Wuhan virus pandemic that has swept the globe is a consistent weight on Trump’s presidency. Be it telling flat-out lies about Trump’s actions or declaring Trump racist for calling the virus by the very name the leftist mainstream media had been calling it for weeks, the left is out to make the Coronavirus a sickness that infects the Trump presidency as it infects the American citizenry, hurting its citizens by health or by economic means.

As it turns out, however, the politicization of the virus isn’t going over too well with voters, especially Independents. According to Bongino.com, the latest Rasmussen report shows that most Independents aren’t on board with how the media is using the pandemic to hurt Trump:

Needless to say, the media is more interested in politicizing crisis than combating it. A new poll of U.S. adults from Rasmussen Reports has found that people are taking notice, with most rating the media’s coverage as either “fair” or “poor” as opposed to “good” or “excellent.”

Among all adults, 42% found the media’s coverage to be excellent or good, while 21% found it fair, and 32% poor (with 5% not sure). There was a clear partisan divide, with Republicans more likely to have negative views of current coverage than the average respondent, and Democrats a more positive view. Only 32% of Republicans found reporting to be excellent or good, while 26% found it fair, and 41% voted it negatively (with only 2% not sure). The numbers for Democrats were 60% excellent/good, 16% fair, and 18% poor (with 5% not sure).

Interestingly enough, the political demographic that rated the media’s coverage the second worst are those who don’t affiliate with either party. Among the unaffiliated (who could be either independents or swing voters), 32% rated coverage excellent or good, while 60% rated it fair or poor (and 9% not sure).

This is horrible news for Democrats who were hoping that the Coronavirus could be used as a tool to hurt Trump, especially going into 2020. It would appear that the people know what the media is doing; fearmongering in an attempt to push an agenda, and they aren’t willing to be lead by the nose over it.

What this means going forward is yet to be seen as we’re just now getting started in our efforts to curb the virus. If it gets worse and the economy tanks, as it will if many major cities continue down the authoritarian course that they are, then it truly will hurt Trump. However, the fact that voters are seeing the media’s true form behind the curtain it put in front of itself isn’t promising news for Democrats and their media cohorts.

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felix1999

4 years ago

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felix1999

4 years ago

Two faced Lindsey caught again …If he’s not supplying weaponary to Qatar for jobs in his home state, he is pleasing Mitch McConnell with helping the Chinese. Mitch’s Chinese inlaws are tied to shipping with China… Has anyone given you five million dollars at Christmas just because the shipping business with China has been off the charts in profit? Mitch was gifted with that…

Sources: Lindsey Graham Uses China’s Disease Crisis to
Deliver Green Cards to Wealthy Chinese
BY NEIL MUNRO 19 Mar 2020
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The proposal, which could be included in one of the Senate’s coronavirus rescue bills, would significantly boost the number of visas offered annually from 10,000 to 75,000 while halving the investment required to earn legal residence from $900,000 to $450,000, they say.

Half the recipients of the EB-5 visa program — investors and their families — come from China, according to a report by the Brookings Institution think tank. Many others come from South Korea and Taiwan.

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Immigration reformers say they are astounded by Graham’s apparent willingness to have the GOP portray itself as covertly selling fast-track citizenship to wealthy Chinese migrants amid the mounting human toll and economic cost caused by China’s coronavirus.
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The bill, S.386, wants to remove the “country caps” is being pushed by Sen. Mike Lee, (R-Utah) supposedly on behalf of roughly 300,000 backlogged Indian contract workers who have been imported by American CEOs and investors.
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https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2020/03/19/sources-graham-uses-the-disease-crisis-to-deliver-green-cards-to-wealthy-chinese/

Is it time to avoid FOX new till this blows over or is more face time needed to show they are on YOUR side? Notice how when they are on FOX news they are NEVER questioned on these issues…

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TomSJr

4 years ago

I AM AN INDEPENDENT (ex-Democrat) and I deplore DEMOCRATS, period. They are self-serving HYPOCRITES.

In fact, my Dem friends are now voting for Trump in November. LIBERAL HEADS IN D.C. AND HOLLYWOOD WILL EXPLODE WHEN TRUMP WINS RE-ELECTION, AND HE WILL! Is there a cure for that, ya know, the heads exploding syndrome, NOW? I do not want to clean up that mess.

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TomSJr

4 years ago

I AM AN INDEPENDENT (ex-Democrat) and I deplore DEMOCRATS, period. They are self-serving HYPOCRITES.

In fact, my Dem friends are now voting for Trump in November. LIBERAL HEADS IN D.C. AND HOLLYWOOD WILL EXPLODE WHEN TRUMP WINS RE-ELECTION, AND HE WILL! Is there a cure for that, ya know, the heads exploding syndrome, NOW? I do not want to clean up that mess.

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Drew the Infidel

4 years ago

The media is like any other random shallow individual you might encounter. They only have one line of crap.

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John Acord

4 years ago

Like all of the Commiecrats efforts to discredit and unseat Trump the Great Toilet Paper Panic of 2020 will fail as well. Trump is emerging as a masterful administrator rushing both medical and financial aide to the people who need it most. I expect landslide in November to be overwhelming. Trump will be hailed as the greatest president since FDR.

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Cauc-Asian Patriot

4 years ago

INDEPENDENTS CAN BE CRITICAL THINKERS BUT THE PROBLEM IS THE MASSES OF YOUNG FOLKS AND MILLENIALS WHO THINK CRITICAL THINKING WAS TAUGHT TO THEM IN SCHOOL ALONG WITH DEM-RAT IDEOLOGIES BY THE LEGION OF DEM-RAT TEACHERS WHO BRED A GENERATION OF TRUE DEM-WITS! ALSO THE LEGION OF DEM-RATS ENTERED HUMAN RESOURCES AND NOW DOMINATE IT AT MOST LARGE COMPANIES ALONG WITH EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES WORK! THE GOP SLEPT WAY TOO COMPLACENTLY ALLOWING ITSELF TO BE MISLED BY THE (NOW AT LEAST HONEST, DEM-RAT) IRVING KRISTOL-GLOBALIST, FREE TRADE NEO-CONS WHO CONNED THE GOP INTO FALSE COMPLACENCY!
I HOPE I’M WRONG BUT I BELIEVE WE ARE IN FOR A VERY CLOSE ELECTION IN 2020! WE MUST USE ALL MEANS NECESSARY TO WIN OR WE RIGHTISTS ARE DOOMED IN THIS COUNTRY!

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