Dr. Anthony Fauci and Gov. Andrew Cuomo remain the most trusted leaders Americans look to for official advice on the coronavirus crisis, while President Donald Trump and White House advisor Jared Kushner still rank at the bottom.
In late March, mid-April, and now late April, Insider conducted a SurveyMonkey Audience poll to gauge how much Americans trust 10 top Trump administration and Democratic officials for their leadership on the COVID-19 outbreak on a scale of 1 to 5.
We asked: “When it comes to the official advice regarding coronavirus, please rate how much you trust the following messengers on a scale on 1 to 5.” On the scale, 1 means strongly distrust, 2 means somewhat distrust, 3 means neither trust nor distrust, 4 means somewhat trust, and 5 means strongly trust.
Americans’ levels of trust in the top officials’ handling of the crisis has remained remarkably steady across the three surveys.
In the most recent poll, conducted April 28-29:
Americans gave Dr. Fauci an average rating of 3.8 out of 5, with 39% of respondents giving him a rating of 5 and 64% trusting him overall.
Cuomo was rated a 3.2 out of 5 on average, with about a quarter of respondents giving him ratings of 5, 4, and 3 respectively.
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