Analysis: Why an anti-Ocasio-Cortez chant at a Trump rally was all but inevitable
By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow March 29 at 10:13 AM Trump Organization executive Donald Trump Jr. served as a warm-up act for his father at a campaign rally Thursday night in Grand Rapids, Mich.
“Think about the fact that every mainstream, leading Democratic contender,” Trump Jr. said, “is taking the advice of a freshman congresswoman who three weeks ago didn’t know the three branches of government. I don’t know about you guys, but that’s pretty scary.”The “three branches of government” thing stems from a live-streamed video of Ocasio-Cortez in which she briefly stumbled over the composition of the U.S. government.
Fox News covers Ocasio-Cortez far more heavily than other cable news networks. On average so far this year, Fox News has mentioned her in 0.6 percent of every 15-second segment it has aired — four times as much as MSNBC and five times as often as CNN. The result? As a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday demonstrated, Ocasio-Cortez is viewed strongly negatively by Republicans. But she’s also much better known by Republicans, with 23 percent of Republicans saying they don’t know enough about her to have an opinion. Among Democrats, 44 percent say they have no opinion, while those who do see her much more positively.
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