Questions - Election Coverage and Trump Statements - August 15-16, 2016

National Survey of 1,000 U.S. Likely Voters

Conducted August 15-16, 2016
By Rasmussen Reports

1* In covering presidential candidates, is the media more interested in where they stand on the issues or in creating controversies about them?

2* Donald Trump seems to court controversy with some of his public comments. Is Trump being crafty or is he being careless when he makes comments like these? Or is the media blowing up some of his comments out of proportion?

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/-3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence