Note that Trump's cuts to university research are his least supported policy, @mayasen.bsky.social. Suggests a potentially broad coalition in support of university research, if universities can effectively make this argument.

And here are some of the methods details for whomever is interested. 👋 /end

Read more details in the full report here!

We'll be doing much more analysis with these data, and we'll have another panel survey wave in November.

Stay tuned! 12/
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Trust also varied among Reps by media use. Police & Trump trust is higher among RW-only Reps. Trust in colleges, college grads, unions, & big corps is higher for MSM Reps. Institutional trust is highest for RW+MSM. Distrust of undocumented across all media groups. 11/

Media use differentiated economic & personal finance perceptions among Reps, w/ RW only Reps engaged in greater partisan perceptual biases than other Reps. 10/

Finally, we looked at all these views among Reps, whose views varied dramatically by media use -- regular RW media use only (18%) vs mainstream only (23%) vs. both (20%) vs. minimal (39%).

RW media Reps were *more* aware of major Trump actions & more supportive than MSM & min. 9/

Public trust in institutions & groups was low overall, but with high variance by party depending on the target, incl for universities & colleges. Highest overall for military, lowest for Congress & big corporations, even among Reps.

Average trust levels were largely unchanged since Oct 2024. 8/