When asked whether 6 statements about the Kyle Rittenhouse statement were true, fewer than half gave the correct answer to any of the six. A Scott Rasmussen national survey generally found that those who got their news from CNN were more likely to give a wrong answer than Fox viewers.
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Question 1:
Please let me know if each of the following statements are true or false:
The people shot by Rittenhouse were Black men.
27% True
46% False
26% Not sure
The people shot and killed by Rittenhouse were unarmed.
32% True
45% False
23% Not sure
One of the men who was shot pointed a gun at Rittenhouse’s head.
48% True
16% False
36% Not sure
Rittenhouse had no connection to Kenosha, where the shootings occurred.
35% True
31% False
34% Not sure
Rittenhouse illegally carried a gun across state lines.
39% True
31% False
29% Not sure
The protests and riots in Kenosha were caused by the police shooting and killing of an unarmed Black man.
50% True
16% False
34% Not sure
Question 2:
How do you rate the way that the news media covered the Rittenhouse case?
14% Excellent
20% Good
20% Fair
32% Poor
13% Not sure
Methodology
The survey of 1,200 Registered Voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on November 22-23, 2021. Field work for the survey was conducted by RMG Research, Inc. Certain quotas were applied, and the sample was lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage, and political party to reasonably reflect the nation’s population of Registered Voters. Other variables were reviewed to ensure that the final sample is representative of that population.