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The test of 2,023 participants reaffirmed that voters will overlook misinformation coughed up by their favorites. But Trump proved a special case.
Trump’s exaggerations, misstatements and truth-tellings won a different reaction from his backers and Democrats. The study found that their biases were so large that Democrats felt Trump’s misstatements were true and Republicans thought his facts were false.
“Participants on both sides of the spectrum took into account their Trump-related biases but overcorrected for them: Republican supporters overcorrected by assuming that Trump’s facts were false, and Democrats overcorrected by assuming that Trump’s misinformation was true,” the study said.
And more importantly for Trump, his supporters care less about what comes out of his mouth than the man himself.
“While Republican supporters did update their beliefs when presented with corrections of misinformation, they did not change their voting intentions nor feelings towards Trump when the misinformation was attributed to the political figure. The degree that Republican supporters updated their belief that Trump’s misinformation was false was not significantly correlated with a change in voting intentions nor feelings towards Trump. This suggests that the public, or at least Trump supporters, are not overly concerned with a candidate disseminating misinformation and seem to be looking to qualities other than veracity,” said the report.
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Trump voters don't care if he exaggerates, lies https://t.co/lnlyVbs6Dy pic.twitter.com/gEobJBUMzE
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) June 7, 2017
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