HUFFPOLLSTER: Most Trump Voters Say They Wouldn't Believe News Reports That Said He Was Lying

Americans who backed Donald Trump largely take his word over reporters’. Trump’s favorability rating has risen, but remains in the red. And Trump’s top pollster credits five select counties for the election outcome. This is HuffPollster for Tuesday, December 6, 2016.

DONALD TRUMP’S SUPPORTERS SAY THEY’D BELIEVE HIM OVER MEDIA - HuffPollster: “More than four in 10 Americans, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov survey, agree with Trump that he’s faced unduly negative coverage. A similar percentage, though, say Trump’s behavior toward the media has been unacceptable as well….Eighty-seven percent of Trump voters, but just 16 percent of Clinton voters, think that media coverage of Trump has been too negative. Eighty-one percent of Americans who voted for Trump believe his treatment of the press is acceptable, while just 9 percent of those who voted for Clinton say the same….A 56 percent majority of Trump voters say that if a national media outlet reported that Trump said something untrue, they would be more inclined to believe him than the news outlet. Just 2 percent say they’d believe the media, with another 38 percent saying it depends on what the story is. In contrast, just 2 percent of Americans who voted for Clinton say they’d be inclined to believe Trump’s side of the argument, while 52 percent said they’d be more likely to believe the media, and 37 percent that it depends.” [HuffPost]