{"id":1937218,"date":"2023-05-24T18:16:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T22:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-tucker-carlson-is-most-influential-public-figure-in-america\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T18:18:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T22:18:25","slug":"poll-tucker-carlson-is-most-influential-public-figure-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-tucker-carlson-is-most-influential-public-figure-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson is the most influential public figure in America, according to a poll."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-tucker-carlson-is-most-influential-public-figure-in-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1937218&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Most Trusted Public Figure for Americans<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Who do Americans trust the most for their information? According to a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/506084\/following-public-individuals-news-charts.aspx\">Gallup\/Knight Foundation poll<\/a>, it&#8217;s Tucker Carlson. Out of 2,800 respondents, 113 mentioned Carlson as the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-vp-of-global-affairs-says-two-year-trump-ban-was-fair-transparent-and-proportionate\/\" title=\"Facebook VP Of Global Affairs Says Two-Year Trump Ban Was \u2018Fair, Transparent, And Proportionate\u2019\">public individual<\/a>&#8221; they watched or followed most often. This is a significant result, considering the broad definition of &#8220;public individual&#8221; that Gallup offered to participants.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, leftist comedians Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert also ranked in the top 10, higher than scientists, presidents, journalists, and Joe Rogan. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow came in at a close second, with the only other figure besides Carlson to receive more than 100 mentions.<\/p>\n<p>What motivates Americans to choose a particular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-finally-discovers-china-uses-u-s-media-to-attack-the-united-states\/\" title=\"CNN Finally Discovers China Uses U.S. Media To Attack The United States\">public figure<\/a> for information? Likability and trustworthiness are the top priorities, followed by entertainment value and perspectives coming from outside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-tucker-carlson-is-most-influential-public-figure-in-america\/\" title=\"Tucker Carlson is the most influential public figure in America, according to a poll.\">legacy media bubble<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Despite recent uncertainty for Carlson, he announced that he would resume his nightly show on Twitter. In fact, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-continuous-media-covid-fear-mongering-may-backfire-and-diminish-democrat-voter-turnout\/\" title=\"The Continuous Media COVID Fear Mongering May BACKFIRE and Diminish Democrat Voter Turnout\">recent poll<\/a> from Change Research showed that Carlson is currently more popular among registered voters than his former network.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Written by Samuel Boehlke, a rising senior in Mass Communication\/Law and Policy at Concordia University Wisconsin and a current intern at The Federalist. Reach him at sboehlkefdrlst@gmail.com or by DMs @vaguelymayo.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-image data-amount=\"5\">\n<h3>Popular<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Gallup\/Knight Foundation poll of 2,800 respondents found that Tucker Carlson is the top source of information for most Americans. The poll defined &#8220;public individual&#8221; broadly, including celebrities, journalists, academics, show hosts, online influencers, and business leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":1937219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5374,3703,6329,17362,3921,3799,3748],"class_list":["post-1937218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-america","tag-carlson","tag-figure","tag-influential","tag-poll","tag-public","tag-tucker"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1937219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}