Majority Of Trump Voters Believe Global Warming Is Real, Poll Finds

Source: Huffington Post

Majority Of Trump Voters Believe Global Warming Is Real, Poll Finds

The presumptive GOP nominee has said he’s “not a big believer”
in climate change.

05/04/2016 02:40 pm ET

Mollie Reilly
Deputy Politics Editor, The Huffington Post

A majority of Donald Trump supporters believe man-made climate change is happening, despite the presidential candidate’s history of global warming denial, a poll released Wednesday found.

The survey, conducted by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, found that 56 percent of people supporting Trump in the 2016 race think global warming is real. Among John Kasich voters, that percentage jumps to 71, while only 36 percent of Ted Cruz’s supporters believe in man-made climate change. (Kasich and Cruz both left the presidential race after Indiana’s primary.)

Trump voters were also more likely to back a presidential candidate if he or she strongly supported addressing global warming.

Meanwhile, nearly all Democratic voters — 93 percent of Bernie Sanders backers and 92 percent of Hillary Clinton supporters — believe in global warming.

But while most Trump voters acknowledge that climate change is happening, just 35 percent said they were worried about it. In contrast, 83 percent of Clinton supporters and 80 percent of Sanders supporters are concerned by current warming trends.

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