Lies and misinformation are central to Trump’s 2024 marketing campaign. He has painted what the Washington Submit described as an “imaginary and frightening world,” referring to a number of conservative obsessions.
A few of Trump’s go-to falsehoods:
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Democrats help “executing” infants after delivery.
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Crime is so excessive that individuals “can’t walk across the street to get a loaf of bread. You get shot. You get mugged. You get raped.”
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Haitian migrants are “eating the dogs … eating the cats.”
In a narrative on Trump’s faux allegations, a 59-year-old Trump supporter informed the Submit, “I don’t think he does stretch the truth,” and mentioned the tales about consuming pets was “an absolute truth.”
A lot of Trump’s fantastical claims might be traced again to right-wing media, significantly Fox Information. Proper-wing media has promoted election lies, falsehoods about LGBTQ+ folks, and well being care misinformation, amongst many different subjects, whereas additionally operating interference for Trump and the Republican Celebration on points like immigration, weapons, and abortion.
A lot of the viewers for this distorted protection additionally constitutes the core of Trump’s political help.
The research confirmed totally different outcomes for individuals who didn’t help Trump in 2020.
“Although [Joe] Biden voters were largely unaffected by these soft moderation tags, third-party and non-voters were slightly less likely to judge election misinformation as true,” the report’s authors wrote.
The disparity in perceptions echo findings from a September ballot from Civiqs for DailyKos. A majority of registered voters (54%) mentioned they thought Trump was “weird,” as did 51% of these assessing his operating mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance. Most voters didn’t suppose Vice President Kamala Harris or her operating mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, had been “weird.”
Whereas majorities of Democrats and independents discovered the Republican ticket to be “weird,” Republican respondents had been the outliers, with 87% p.c saying Trump was not bizarre and 83% saying the identical of Vance.
Regardless of Trump’s conduct in the course of the marketing campaign and since he turned a public determine, his voters proceed to face by their man.