Seen, Read, Heard
2019 is nearly over. Here’s what news broke through in Morning Consult polls.
Morning Consult was in the field nearly every week in 2019, asking roughly 90,000 registered voters over the course of the year how much they’d seen, read or heard about more than 230 current events. Not all news resonated the same. Here’s the share of voters who heard “a lot” about 100 of the events we thought were most noteworthy, and how the news penetrated along party lines.
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39%
31%
28%
Sanders cancels campaign events following heart surgery
10.02.19
Sanders' heart attack
54%
42%
34%
Trump urges China and Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden
10.03.19
Trump calls on China to investigate Bidens
21%
19%
17%
The Chinese lash out against the NBA after the Houston Rockets general manager tweets support for Hong Kong protests
10.07.19
NBA's China controversy
12%
8%
6%
A new book reveals 43 allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump
10.09.19
Them too
44%
34%
26%
Trump pulls troops out of northeastern Syria
10.09.19
Syria withdrawal
35%
24%
15%
Two associates of Rudy Giuliani are arrested on charges of violating campaign finance rules
10.10.19
Giuliani associates arrested
28%
21%
15%
Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch tells impeachment investigators that Trump pressed for her removal
10.11.19
Former ambassador to Ukraine testifies
24%
17%
11%
Democratic presidential candidates face off for the sixth time
10.15.19
Ohio debate
37%
26%
18%
Rep. Cummings dies at age 68
10.17.19
Cummings dies
33%
22%
13%
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney describes a quid pro quo with Ukraine to reporters, then issues statement denying any quid pro quo
10.17.19
Mulvaney’s conflicting statements on a quid pro quo
35%
25%
16%
U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor testifies that Trump withheld Ukraine military aid as he pressured Kyiv to say it was investigating the Bidens
10.22.19
Top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine testifies
32%
25%
20%
Republican lawmakers storm a secure room for closed-door impeachment hearings
10.23.19
GOP lawmakers protest impeachment inquiry
26%
20%
16%
Trump lifts sanctions on Turkey after the country agreed to stop attacking Kurdish-led forces in northeastern Syria
10.23.19
Removal of sanctions on Turkey
48%
42%
42%
The House of Representatives votes to formalize its impeachment inquiry into Trump
10.31.19
House votes on impeachment plan
Morning Consult