Poll asked Americans to rank 56 different news outlets from very trustworthy to very untrustworthy. Results showed that Americans most trustworthy outlet by a long shot is the weather channel, then comes PBS, then the BBC. The least trustworthy was info wars followed by the Daily Caller, then Breitbart News. Cross tabs also revealed how Democrats and Republicans viewed the outlets; overall Democrats trusted news media more than Republicans.
On Tuesday, voters are heading to the polls in at least three competitive races: the Kentucky Republican gubernatorial primary, the Philadelphia Democratic mayoral primary and the Jacksonville mayoral election. In this installment of the podcast, Galen and Nathaniel preview the state of those three races. They also speak with YouGov's Linley Sanders about a new poll showing that Democrats broadly trust news outlets more than Republicans, including even some right-leaning news outlets. And they look at how the public is reacting to last week's scandals involving former President Donald Trump and New York Rep. George Santos.
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