Two-thirds of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s supporters nationwide said they believe that President Barack Obama is a Muslim, according to a poll released Tuesday.
The poll from Public Policy Polling, a Democratic-leaning firm, found that 66 percent of Trump supporters said they believed that Obama is a Muslim while just 12 percent of those who favor the real estate mogul believe Obama is a Christian.
Supporters of just three establishment GOP candidates — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) — were more inclined to believe Obama was a Christian than a Muslim, according to the poll.
PPP’s survey also found that 61 percent of Trump supporters said they did not believe Obama was born in the United States. That finding expands on a data point included in a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register poll also released Tuesday: nearly half of Iowa caucusgoers supporting Trump believed Obama was foreign born, according to that survey.
The poll surveyed 572 Republican primary voters by phone and online from Aug. 28-30. It had a margin of error of 4.1 percentage points.
I guess it’s true-you can’t fix stupid, especially the willfully ignorant kind!
And we can be confident Mr. Trump will rush to correct the misinformation!
Deregulation of media fairness rules spawned unfiltered, ideological “news” outlets on radio and TV. Now more than ever, Americans can passively consume their own reality without having to choose and read different newspapers or magazines.
The bigger question is whether his supporters believe that Trump is a Christian, because he isn’t; yet, they still support Trump.
Well, at least they don’t think he’s Mexican. I’ll give them that. You never know how deep stupid can go.