Majority of US voters believe media biased against Trump: Poll
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Americans watch the third presidential debate between Clinton and Trump at Murphy\'s Tap House in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina
A majority of likely American voters believe mainstream media organizations are biased against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, a new poll shows.
According to the national Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday evening, 55 of likely voters said the media is biased against Trump, while 42 percent could not find any bias in the media against the real estate tycoon, POLITICO reported.
Almost 90 percent of Republican voters think that news media is biased against Trump, while 3 in 4 Democrats disagree with that opinion.
“Donald Trump made the charge, and American likely voters agree: There is a media bias against the GOP contender,” said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University poll.
The poll was conducted among 1,007 likely voters from October 17 to October 18. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
Over the last week, Trump has intensified his criticism of the American electoral system. He called the election process rigged, and said the media is colluding with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in order to beat him.
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