{"id":537397,"date":"2021-05-22T17:50:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T21:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=537397"},"modified":"2021-05-22T17:50:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T21:50:42","slug":"trust-of-americans-in-fauci-plummets-especially-among-republicans-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trust-of-americans-in-fauci-plummets-especially-among-republicans-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust Of Americans In Fauci Plummets, Especially Among Republicans: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Ftrust-of-americans-in-fauci-plummets-especially-among-republicans-poll%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=537397&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3558.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The number of Americans who trust Dr. Anthony Fauci has dropped sharply over the past year, according to a recent poll.<\/p>\n<p>Of those asked whether their confidence in Fauci had gone up or down in the past year, 42.2% of those surveyed expressed a \u201cdecreased\u201d trust in the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/thetrafalgargroup.org\/COSA-National-Fauci-Full-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trafalgar Group poll<\/a>. Of that segment, 12.1% said their confidence simply \u201cdecreased,\u201d while 30.1% said their trust had \u201cdecreased significantly.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"3.9466666666667\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z2vMindKGu\">pic.twitter.com\/Z2vMindKGu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wendell Huseb\u00f8 (@WendellHusebo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo\/status\/1395712561971142656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Among Democrat respondents, only 20% said that their confidence in Fauci had decreased, with 32.4% claiming it had actually increased. Of Republicans, however, their distrust has spiked 66.1%, with 50.8% saying their confidence had decreased significantly.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also found that the faith of 34.7% of Democrats in Fauci has remained steady, while only 13% of Republicans retained the same opinion of him that they had 12 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Conducted between Sunday and Tuesday, the poll included 1,093 likely voters and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.96 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.cdn.yougov.com\/lydd14trrl\/20210513_yahoo_vaccine_tabs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouGov and Yahoo News COVID-19 Vaccination Survey<\/a>&nbsp;done earlier in May also found Fauci\u2019s approval ratings falling roughly along party lines, with 54% of Democrats claiming Fauci is doing an \u201cexcellent\u201d job and a quarter believing he is doing a \u201cgood\u201d job. By contrast, only 5% of Republicans believe Fauci\u2019s performance has been \u201cexcellent,\u201d 12% believe it has been \u201cgood,\u201d 19% believe it has been \u201cfair,\u201d and a staggering 55% said he has done a \u201cpoor\u201d job.<\/p>\n<p>As the poll indicates, increasingly more people have questioned Fauci\u2019s competence as the pandemic has dragged on and he seemingly continues to contradict himself, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fauci-flip-flops-again-now-admits-wearing-a-mask-while-fully-vaccinated-was-political-theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">flip-flopping yet again<\/a> on masks earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, questions have been swirling around NIAID\u2019s alleged funding in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a lab from which some believe the COVID-19 virus might have leaked. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) made this a point of contention during a recent congressional hearing with Fauci. As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-sen-rand-paul-grills-fauci-over-u-s-funding-for-wuhan-lab-origin-of-virus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"33.87265917603\">\n<p><em>After expressing skepticism regarding the consensus explanation that the virus emerged naturally in Chinese wet markets, Paul claimed the National Institutes of Health (NIH)&nbsp;funded the Wuhan lab\u2019s gain-of-function research, which is a form of study that attempts to render pathogens more infectious and lethal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cDr. Fauci, do you still support funding of the NIH funding of the lab in Wuhan?\u201d Paul asked Fauci.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSenator Paul, with all due respect, you are entirely, entirely and completely incorrect,\u201d Fauci replied. \u201cThe NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Paul then pointed to a&nbsp;$3.4 million grant that&nbsp;the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), the part of the NIH run by Fauci, gave to EcoHealth Alliance in 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>EcoHealth Alliance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/news\/politics\/politifact\/2021\/02\/09\/covid-dr-anthony-fauci-did-not-fund-research-tied-creation\/4450338001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paid<\/a>&nbsp;the lab in Wuhan $598,500 over five years, according to PolitiFact, which also reported \u201call parties involved in the grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology have denied that it involved gain-of-function research.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/can-religious-liberty-survive-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Can Religious Liberty Survive COVID-19 And The New Gnostics?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fauci-complains-about-being-politicized-by-extreme-people-such-as-jim-jordan-rand-paul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fauci Complains About Being \u2018Politicized\u2019 By \u2018Extreme People\u2019 Such As Jim Jordan, Rand Paul<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Americans who trust Dr. Anthony Fauci has dropped sharply over the past year, according to a recent poll.Of those asked whether their confidence in Fauci had gone &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312710,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3558.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Trust Of Americans In Fauci Plummets, Especially Among Republicans: Poll","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3558.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Trust Of Americans In Fauci Plummets, Especially Among Republicans: Poll","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537397","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}