Independent voters are more likely to tune into Fox News to get their news as opposed to either of the other two major cable networks, according to a new Morning Consult poll.
The survey, which was released Sunday, gathered data from over a million respondents from Nov. 1, 2018, through Oct. 31, 2019.
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Of the 436 U.S. congressional districts, independents in 306 of them are more likely to watch Fox News than CNN or MSNBC by a two-point margin. Comparatively, independents in 56 districts are more likely to watch CNN than Fox or MSNBC.
There was no district in which MSNBC was named as the most-watched cable news outlet by independents. However, independents, according to the data, consume the three networks at a lower rate than both Democrats and Republicans.
The district that reported the lowest viewership for Fox News topped the other cable networks’ lowest districts. Nearly 1 in 5 people from California’s 27th district, which has elected a Democrat to Congress since 2001, tune into Fox News at least once a week.
Despite the conservative-leaning outlet dominating the ratings, independents’ support of impeaching President Trump has grown since the news of the Ukrainian whistleblower “snowballed,” according to FiveThirtyEight. Approximately a third of independents supported removing Trump at the beginning of September, but that number has now increased by about 10%.
