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  1. b

    Data from: Processing political misinformation: comprehending the Trump...

    • data.bris.ac.uk
    Updated Apr 22, 2017
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    (2017). Data from: Processing political misinformation: comprehending the Trump phenomenon - Datasets - data.bris [Dataset]. https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/8001384ef9ab38dd90710ba227c8f7e3
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    Dataset updated
    Apr 22, 2017
    Description

    This study investigated the cognitive processing of true and false political information. Specifically, it examined the impact of source credibility on the assessment of veracity when information comes from a polarizing source (Experiment 1), and effectiveness of explanations when they come from one's own political party or an opposition party (Experiment 2). These experiments were conducted prior to the 2016 Presidential election. Participants rated their belief in factual and incorrect statements that President Trump made on the campaign trail; facts were subsequently affirmed and misinformation retracted. Participants then re-rated their belief immediately or after a delay. Experiment 1 found that (i) if information was attributed to Trump, Republican supporters of Trump believed it more than if it was presented without attribution, whereas the opposite was true for Democrats and (ii) although Trump supporters reduced their belief in misinformation items following a correction, they did not change their voting preferences. Experiment 2 revealed that the explanation's source had relatively little impact, and belief updating was more influenced by perceived credibility of the individual initially purporting the information. These findings suggest that people use political figures as a heuristic to guide evaluation of what is true or false, yet do not necessarily insist on veracity as a prerequisite for supporting political candidates.

  2. Attitudes to the New York Times publishing Trump's tax data U.S. 2019, by...

    • statista.com
    Updated Jul 9, 2025
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    Statista (2025). Attitudes to the New York Times publishing Trump's tax data U.S. 2019, by politics [Dataset]. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1006178/nyt-trump-tax-returns-attitudes-us-by-politics/
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    Dataset updated
    Jul 9, 2025
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    Statistahttp://statista.com/
    Time period covered
    May 8, 2019
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    This statistic shows public opinion on whether it was appropriate for the New York Times to publish data on Donald Trump's tax returns in the United States as of May 2019, sorted by political affiliation. The survey results revealed that ** percent of Democrats thought that it was appropriate for the New York Times to publish data on Donald Trump's tax returns, compared to just ** percent of Republicans who said the same.

  3. Donald Trump TWEETS

    • kaggle.com
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    Updated Jul 21, 2018
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    MC (2018). Donald Trump TWEETS [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/datascienceai/donald-trump-tweets
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    zip(587027 bytes)Available download formats
    Dataset updated
    Jul 21, 2018
    Authors
    MC
    Description

    Dataset

    This dataset was created by MC

    Contents

    It contains the following files:

  4. m

    Data from: Lexical Cohesion Used In Donald Trump’s Campaign Speech

    • data.mendeley.com
    Updated Aug 22, 2023
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    PRAGMATICA; Journal of Linguistics and Literature (2023). Lexical Cohesion Used In Donald Trump’s Campaign Speech [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.17632/8wt7k395vf.1
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    Aug 22, 2023
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    PRAGMATICA; Journal of Linguistics and Literature
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description

    The title of this research is "Lexical Cohesion Used in Donald Trump's Campaign Speeches". Lexical cohesion is one of the most important tools for bringing text together. Lexical cohesion is grouped into five types. Due to the large number of types, research on lexical cohesion needs to be carried out and the problems to be studied are: the types and uses of the most common types found in Donald Trump's campaign speeches. The theory used is the theory of lexical cohesion types taken from Cohesion in English by Halliday and Hassan (1976). This study uses four of Donald Trump's speeches as data sources. Data collection is carried out in the form of library research, which searches for and downloads data sources and then reads the relevant data included in it. All data is grouped into the appropriate type group. The data that has been collected is analyzed descriptively and frequency. The results of the study show that five types of lexical cohesion are found in Donald Trump's campaign speeches. The five types of lexical cohesion found are repetition, synonym, superordinate, general words, and collocation. The mostly type of lexical cohesion found is repetition.

  5. f

    Trump's Performance over Twitter

    • figshare.com
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    Updated Jun 1, 2023
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    Sande Sydney (2023). Trump's Performance over Twitter [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19779067.v2
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    zipAvailable download formats
    Dataset updated
    Jun 1, 2023
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    figshare
    Authors
    Sande Sydney
    License

    CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedicationhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    The above data set is about the tenure of trump as president of USA and how netizens make classification.

  6. H

    Replication Data: Supporters and Opponents of Donald Trump Respond...

    • dataverse.harvard.edu
    Updated Jan 8, 2019
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    Matthew Luttig (2019). Replication Data: Supporters and Opponents of Donald Trump Respond Differently to Racial Cues: An Experimental Analysis [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/T9BD35
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    CroissantCroissant is a format for machine-learning datasets. Learn more about this at mlcommons.org/croissant.
    Dataset updated
    Jan 8, 2019
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    Authors
    Matthew Luttig
    License

    CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedicationhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    Replication Data and Do-File for "Supporters and Opponents of Donald Trump Respond Differently to Racial Cues: An Experimental Analysis"

  7. w

    Biden and Trump Mentions in Facebook Advertising Data

    • figshare.wesleyan.edu
    Updated Sep 19, 2023
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    Markus Neumann; Jielu Yao; Pavel Oleinikov; Laura Baum; Colleen Bogucki; Breeze Floyd; Travis N. Ridout; Michael M. Franz; Erika Franklin Fowler (2023). Biden and Trump Mentions in Facebook Advertising Data [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.25438/wes02.23546064.v1
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    Dataset updated
    Sep 19, 2023
    Dataset provided by
    Wesleyan University
    Authors
    Markus Neumann; Jielu Yao; Pavel Oleinikov; Laura Baum; Colleen Bogucki; Breeze Floyd; Travis N. Ridout; Michael M. Franz; Erika Franklin Fowler
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description

    Time period: June 1, 2020 through Election Day 2020Through its Cross-Platform Election Advertising Transparency Initiative (CREATIVE) funded in part through a grant from the NSF (Award Number 2235006), the Wesleyan Media Project is actively working on identifying and summarizing federal election content from the general election periods in federal cycles (September through Election Day). In late 2020, we received a request from the collaboration between Facebook and academics studying the 2020 election to obtain our classifications of advertising data relevant to the presidential election (defined by mentions of either candidate). We already had September through Election Day content in hand and worked backward to acquire June through August 2020 content relevant to presidential mentions solely in service of this request. The data provided here, which cover the June 1 to Election Day period from 2020, apply many of our methods employed in CREATIVE but precedes many of the refinements that we have made in identifying and classifying federal advertising to the content relevant to presidential ads. In addition, in the provided data we did not conduct a lot of fine tuning just for the presidential race. If we had built methods solely for delivery of presidential advertising in particular, we likely would have chosen different methods. We would like to remind researchers that the earlier (June through August) period contains, for many races, primary advertising rather than general election advertising, and we did not examine carefully the differences between these two.

  8. Trump-related tweets (US Election Day 2020)

    • kaggle.com
    Updated Nov 9, 2020
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    YewLee Wong (2020). Trump-related tweets (US Election Day 2020) [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/wyewlee/trumprelated-tweets-us-election-day-2020/metadata
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    CroissantCroissant is a format for machine-learning datasets. Learn more about this at mlcommons.org/croissant.
    Dataset updated
    Nov 9, 2020
    Dataset provided by
    Kaggle
    Authors
    YewLee Wong
    License

    https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    [READ THIS FIRST! DATASETS FOR Academic/Learning/Non-commercial purpose]

    Context

    US Election 2020 is very interesting to look into as it is an election in the middle of a pandemic. Me and my teammate created a twitter crawler using Twitter API and Tweepy for my Artificial Intelligence coursework. We chose Donald Trump as a subject of interest as President Trump was known for his twitter interaction.

    I decided to deploy my crawler on post-voting day to conduct a sentiment analysis.

    Tweet text in this datasets is suitable for Sentiment Analysis usage.

    Content

    This raw datasets is crawled using Tweepy library and Twitter API. 2500 tweets were gathered per 15 minutes. There are total of 247,500 row of entries and 13 columns, with the total of 3,217,500 cells of data. Data cleaning is needed to perform before doing any analysis.

    Datasets date range: 4th November 2020 - 11th November 2020 Tweets with "Trump", "DonalTrump", "realDonalTrump" were capture.

    (The User = user of the particular row) username: Twitter User handle accDesc: Description of the user on profile location: Location of the tweet following: Total number of account the user is following followers: Total number of followers of the user totaltweets: Total tweets created of the user usercreated: Date of the user registered his/her Twitter account tweetcreated: Date of the tweet created favouritecount: tweet <3 count (equivalent to like on Facebook) retweetcount: Total tweet's retweet (equivalent to share on Facebook) text: Text body of the tweet tweetsource: Device used to create this tweet hashtags: hashtag of the tweet in JSON format

    Acknowledgements and Disclaimers

    Banner and thumbnail courtesy of > visuals < from unsplash.com

    Much thanks to my teammate Jiacheng Loh and ChenZhen Li for the efforts.

    Please do not use this datasets for any malicious attempts, any damage done is not under the responsible of me.

    This datasets were gathered for the purpose of learning and not for commercial purposes.

    Data were public in the public domain, therefore i assume these data is open for all.

    Limitations

    Datasets are gathered with at least 15 minutes interval, therefore datecreated distribution is not equal and may not include all tweets created within the date range.

  9. President Trump Job Approval

    • realclearpolling.com
    Updated Feb 13, 2024
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    Real Clear Polling (2024). President Trump Job Approval [Dataset]. https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating
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    Dataset updated
    Feb 13, 2024
    Dataset provided by
    RealClearPoliticshttps://realclearpolitics.com/
    Authors
    Real Clear Polling
    Description

    President Trump Job Approval | RealClearPolling

  10. Data from: Obama Vs Trump

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    txt
    Updated Jun 1, 2023
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    Sande Sydney (2023). Obama Vs Trump [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19779343.v1
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    txtAvailable download formats
    Dataset updated
    Jun 1, 2023
    Dataset provided by
    figshare
    Figsharehttp://figshare.com/
    Authors
    Sande Sydney
    License

    CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedicationhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    The above is a data set that compares Trump's and Obama's presidency in USA

  11. d

    Vol. 17(3)- Replication Data for: Searching for Bright Lines in the Trump...

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    • dataverse.harvard.edu
    Updated Nov 22, 2023
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    Carey, John; Helmke, Gretchen; Nyhan, Brendan; Sanders, Mitchell; Stokes, Susan (2023). Vol. 17(3)- Replication Data for: Searching for Bright Lines in the Trump Presidency [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IYWXMF
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    Nov 22, 2023
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    Harvard Dataverse
    Authors
    Carey, John; Helmke, Gretchen; Nyhan, Brendan; Sanders, Mitchell; Stokes, Susan
    Description

    Is American democracy under threat? The question is more prominent in political debate now than at any time in recent memory. However, it is also too blunt; there is widespread recognition that democracy is multifaceted and that backsliding, when it occurs, tends to be piecemeal. To address these concerns, we provide original data from surveys of political science experts and the public measuring the perceived importance and performance of U.S. democracy on a number of dimensions during the first year and a half of the Trump presidency. We draw on a theory of how politicians may transgress limits on their authority and the conditions under which constraints are self-enforcing. We connect this theory to our survey data in an effort to identify potential areas of agreement – bright lines – among experts and the public about the most important democratic principles and whether they have been violated. Public and expert perceptions often differ on the importance of specific democratic principles. In addition, though our experts perceive substantial democratic erosion, particularly in areas related to checks and balances, polarization between Trump supporters and opponents undermines any social consensus recognizing these violations.

  12. H

    Vol. 17(2): Replication Data for: Is There a Trump Effect? An Experiment on...

    • dataverse.harvard.edu
    Updated Nov 18, 2019
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    Harvard Dataverse (2019). Vol. 17(2): Replication Data for: Is There a Trump Effect? An Experiment on Political Polarization and Audience Costs [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZELWZ7
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    tsv(1416063), type/x-r-syntax(74206), text/x-stata-syntax(0), application/x-stata-syntax(12640), tsv(1245851), rtf(2658)Available download formats
    Dataset updated
    Nov 18, 2019
    Dataset provided by
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    License

    CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedicationhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    Does President Trump face domestic costs for foreign policy inconsistency? Will co- partisans and opposition-partisans equally punish Donald Trump for issuing flippant international threats and backing down? While the President said he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” without losing voters, the literature consistently shows that individuals, regardless of partisanship, disapprove of leaders who jeopardize the country’s reputation for credibility and resolve. Given the atypical nature of the Trump presidency, and the severe partisan polarization surrounding it, we investigate whether the logic of audience costs still applies in the Trump era. Using a unique experiment fielded during the 2016 presidential transition, we show that Republicans and Democrats impose equal audience costs on President Trump. And by varying the leader’s identity, between Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and “The President,” we demonstrate that the public adheres to a non-partisan logic in punishing leaders who renege on threats. Yet, we also find Presidents Trump and Obama can reduce the magnitude of audience costs by justifying backing down as being “in America’s interest.” Even Democrats, despite their doubts of Donald Trump’s credibility, accept such justifications. Our findings encourage further exploration of partisan cues, leader-level attributes, and leader-level reputations.

  13. United States The Economist YouGov Polls: 2024 Presidential Election: Donald...

    • ceicdata.com
    Updated Apr 13, 2024
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    CEICdata.com (2024). United States The Economist YouGov Polls: 2024 Presidential Election: Donald Trump [Dataset]. https://www.ceicdata.com/en/united-states/the-economist-yougov-polls-2024-presidential-election/the-economist-yougov-polls-2024-presidential-election-donald-trump
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    Dataset updated
    Apr 13, 2024
    Dataset provided by
    CEIC Data
    License

    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Time period covered
    Aug 13, 2024 - Oct 29, 2024
    Area covered
    United States
    Description

    United States The Economist YouGov Polls: 2024 Presidential Election: Donald Trump data was reported at 46.000 % in 29 Oct 2024. This stayed constant from the previous number of 46.000 % for 22 Oct 2024. United States The Economist YouGov Polls: 2024 Presidential Election: Donald Trump data is updated weekly, averaging 43.000 % from May 2023 (Median) to 29 Oct 2024, with 61 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 46.000 % in 29 Oct 2024 and a record low of 38.000 % in 31 Oct 2023. United States The Economist YouGov Polls: 2024 Presidential Election: Donald Trump data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by YouGov PLC. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.PR004: The Economist YouGov Polls: 2024 Presidential Election (Discontinued). If an election for president were going to be held now and the Democratic nominee was Joe Biden and the Republican nominee was Donald Trump, would you vote for...

  14. h

    Data from: trump-speak

    • huggingface.co
    Updated Dec 8, 2024
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    Jay Joo (2024). trump-speak [Dataset]. https://huggingface.co/datasets/tizerk/trump-speak
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    CroissantCroissant is a format for machine-learning datasets. Learn more about this at mlcommons.org/croissant.
    Dataset updated
    Dec 8, 2024
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    Jay Joo
    Description

    tizerk/trump-speak dataset hosted on Hugging Face and contributed by the HF Datasets community

  15. D

    Data from: Under His Thumb. The Effect of President Donald Trump's Twitter...

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    xlsx
    Updated Feb 20, 2020
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    L.J.R. (Bert) Scholtens; L.J.R. (Bert) Scholtens (2020). Under His Thumb. The Effect of President Donald Trump's Twitter Messages on the US Stock Market [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.34894/DXIZWM
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    xlsx(3359849)Available download formats
    Dataset updated
    Feb 20, 2020
    Dataset provided by
    DataverseNL
    Authors
    L.J.R. (Bert) Scholtens; L.J.R. (Bert) Scholtens
    License

    CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedicationhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    License information was derived automatically

    Description

    Does president Trump’s use of Twitter affect financial markets? The president frequently mentions companies in his tweets and, as such, tries to gain leverage over their behavior. We analyze the effect of president Trump’s Twitter messages that specifically mention a company name on its stock market returns. We find that tweets from the president which reveal strong negative sentiment are followed by reduced market value of the company mentioned, whereas supportive tweets do not render a significant effect. Our methodology does not allow us to conclude about the exact mechanism behind these findings and can only be used to investigate short-term effects.

  16. Donald Trump

    • apitube.io
    Updated Oct 30, 2024
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    APITube (2024). Donald Trump [Dataset]. https://apitube.io/free-datasets/donald-trump
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    Dataset updated
    Oct 30, 2024
    Dataset authored and provided by
    APITube
    License

    https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

    Time period covered
    Jan 1, 2020 - Present
    Area covered
    Global
    Variables measured
    Category, Language, Sentiment, News Content, News Sources, News Headlines, Publication Date, Geographic Location
    Description

    English news that mention the "Donald Trump". Crawled date: Oct, 2024. Documents count: 8,037.

  17. d

    Replication Data for: \"Partisanship in the Trump Era\"

    • dataone.org
    Updated Nov 22, 2023
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    Bartels, Larry (2023). Replication Data for: \"Partisanship in the Trump Era\" [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XY2HZV
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    Dataset updated
    Nov 22, 2023
    Dataset provided by
    Harvard Dataverse
    Authors
    Bartels, Larry
    Description

    Codebook, data, and replication file for "Partisanship in the Trump Era"

  18. d

    Replication Data for: Trump Tweets and Democratic Attitudes: Evidence from a...

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    Updated Nov 8, 2023
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    Carreras, Miguel; Jennifer Merolla; Shaun Bowler (2023). Replication Data for: Trump Tweets and Democratic Attitudes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CQIK0L
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    Nov 8, 2023
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    Harvard Dataverse
    Authors
    Carreras, Miguel; Jennifer Merolla; Shaun Bowler
    Description

    Replication Data for: Trump Tweets and Democratic Attitudes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment (Political Research Quarterly)

  19. 2024 National: Trump vs. Harris

    • realclearpolling.com
    Updated Nov 3, 2024
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    Real Clear Polling (2024). 2024 National: Trump vs. Harris [Dataset]. https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-harris
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    Dataset updated
    Nov 3, 2024
    Dataset provided by
    RealClearPoliticshttps://realclearpolitics.com/
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    Real Clear Polling
    Description

    2024 National: Trump vs. Harris | RealClearPolling

  20. Donald Trump’s Possible Russia Businesses

    • kaggle.com
    Updated Apr 16, 2024
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    AlanY (2024). Donald Trump’s Possible Russia Businesses [Dataset]. https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/reefdiver/donald-trumps-possible-russia-businesses/data
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    CroissantCroissant is a format for machine-learning datasets. Learn more about this at mlcommons.org/croissant.
    Dataset updated
    Apr 16, 2024
    Dataset provided by
    Kagglehttp://kaggle.com/
    Authors
    AlanY
    License

    https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

    Area covered
    Russia
    Description

    Dataset

    This dataset was created by AlanY

    Released under CC0: Public Domain

    Contents

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(2017). Data from: Processing political misinformation: comprehending the Trump phenomenon - Datasets - data.bris [Dataset]. https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/8001384ef9ab38dd90710ba227c8f7e3

Data from: Processing political misinformation: comprehending the Trump phenomenon - Datasets - data.bris

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Dataset updated
Apr 22, 2017
Description

This study investigated the cognitive processing of true and false political information. Specifically, it examined the impact of source credibility on the assessment of veracity when information comes from a polarizing source (Experiment 1), and effectiveness of explanations when they come from one's own political party or an opposition party (Experiment 2). These experiments were conducted prior to the 2016 Presidential election. Participants rated their belief in factual and incorrect statements that President Trump made on the campaign trail; facts were subsequently affirmed and misinformation retracted. Participants then re-rated their belief immediately or after a delay. Experiment 1 found that (i) if information was attributed to Trump, Republican supporters of Trump believed it more than if it was presented without attribution, whereas the opposite was true for Democrats and (ii) although Trump supporters reduced their belief in misinformation items following a correction, they did not change their voting preferences. Experiment 2 revealed that the explanation's source had relatively little impact, and belief updating was more influenced by perceived credibility of the individual initially purporting the information. These findings suggest that people use political figures as a heuristic to guide evaluation of what is true or false, yet do not necessarily insist on veracity as a prerequisite for supporting political candidates.

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