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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| "The Republican voters ranged from a man in a Sex Pistols shirt concerned about election integrity and the trajectory of public schools to a man wearing suspenders with his blue jeans who gave his age only as a veteran of the Korean conflict." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "Still, she said, abortion was on her mind this season - she had seen what women and young girls lived through before Roe." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "In the state Senate she opposed allowing low-income women to access abortion, subsidized by state taxpayer dollars, or allowing nurse practitioners to perform abortions in the first trimester." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "I've heard that too, Kiggans said, before pivoting: What do you think of the crisis at the southern border?Burchett ultimately wished Kiggans luck, telling her he had her brochure on his fridge and was following the race closely." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "I'm not here to ban abortion." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Abortion is being made as the top issue on television, but that's not the top issue with the average voter." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Now, fearing politicians could try to criminalize abortion or ban it without exception, she needed to know: Where did Kiggans stand?" | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "She said she supports exceptions to abortion restrictions for rape, incest and the life of the mother, and, regarding a nationwide ban, I'm not here to make abortion illegal." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "She won a tight race for an open seat in part by accusing Democrats and her opponent of being extreme on abortion, even that Democrats support infanticide, which they decried as a lie." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "She wants to make abortion illegal, a narrator said against a smiling image of Kiggans in the first ad." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "She later went on a radio show and accused Democrats of using abortion as a shiny object to distract voters from other issues such as the economy and inflation - prompting more attacks from Luria, who called the comment insulting to women everywhere.Up against Luria's 10-1 cash-on-hand advantage at the start of the summer, the bombardment is leaving Kiggans constantly on defense against an image she says doesn't represent the real her - and perhaps leaving the district's all-important swing voters wondering: Who is the real Kiggans, anyway?- - -She rolled up in the gray Honda minivan, arriving in the red-leaning Virginia Beach neighborhood for some door-knocking after dropping her daughter off at cello practice." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "Now, Luria has turned to abortion - releasing three ads in a month accusing Kiggans of supporting a ban on abortion without exception after Kiggans applauded the overturn of Roe v. Wade." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "She watched Elaine Luria - like her, a pioneering female Navy veteran with no previous political experience - and a class of Democratic women with military backgrounds win seats in Congress in the blue wave." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "It's the return of the happy warrior, said Thomas Turner, who chairs the Young Republicans' Western Tidewater chapter." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Like Youngkin, Bromley-Trujillo said, Kiggans is likely to benefit from the broader national environment with the election functioning as a referendum on Biden and the Democrats, plus redistricting making the 2nd a few points redder." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "My main thing with politics is, I feel like it's a bunch of children, the voter, 51-year-old Kim Schmidt, told Kiggans, a geriatric nurse practitioner who is hoping to unseat Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.) in Virginia's 2nd Congressional District this November." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "She pointed to Kiggans joining the chorus of Republicans who immediately sought to discredit the FBI's search warrant at Trump's Mar-a-Lago before facts about the search emerged, which in part led the Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press editorial board to accuse Kiggans of forging a path to victory that included the selling of her soul." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "I've been called a lot of things in my life, Kiggans said before listing her job titles in her most recent ad responding to Luria's attacks, but extremist, that's a new one." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "For Kiggans, I'm not an extremist has become somewhat of a mantra, battling the image of her that Luria has splashed across television screens in one of the most competitive races in the nation." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "But on the other hand Kiggans has also stuck to the script on some of the GOP's more divisive narratives - in turn leading Luria to paint the very image of Kiggans that she is expressly trying to avoid." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Jen is a political opportunist who will say and do anything to get elected, and the people of Coastal Virginia see right through her, Luria, a retired Navy commander, said in a statement, arguing Kiggans's extreme words and actions speak for themselves." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "The man, Knox Burchett, said at the top of his list were concerns about inflation and out of control spending - but also Trump's handling of classified documents, indicative of the national-security bent of the 2nd District that transcends party lines." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "And while Kiggans has never beat a stolen election drum, she has hesitated to acknowledge President Biden was legitimately elected when asked directly, saying he simply lives in the White House." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "I've seen again the effort to appeal to the extreme right-wing agenda, Hashmi said, drawing a contrast with Luria's service on the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "A retired nurse, Diane Schmidt was the archetype Virginia Beach swing voter who said she has voted for many in both parties, though didn't feel she was better off under Biden." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "She later went on a radio show and accused Democrats of using abortion as a shiny object to distract voters from other issues such as the economy and inflation - prompting more attacks from Luria, who called the comment insulting to women everywhere.Up against Luria's 10-1 cash-on-hand advantage at the start of the summer, the bombardment is leaving Kiggans constantly on defense against an image she says doesn't represent the real her - and perhaps leaving the district's all-important swing voters wondering: Who is the real Kiggans, anyway?- - -She rolled up in the gray Honda minivan, arriving in the red-leaning Virginia Beach neighborhood for some door-knocking after dropping her daughter off at cello practice." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "She later went on a radio show and accused Democrats of using abortion as a shiny object to distract voters from other issues such as the economy and inflation - prompting more attacks from Luria, who called the comment insulting to women everywhere.Up against Luria's 10-1 cash-on-hand advantage at the start of the summer, the bombardment is leaving Kiggans constantly on defense against an image she says doesn't represent the real her - and perhaps leaving the district's all-important swing voters wondering: Who is the real Kiggans, anyway?- - -She rolled up in the gray Honda minivan, arriving in the red-leaning Virginia Beach neighborhood for some door-knocking after dropping her daughter off at cello practice." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "Now, Luria has turned to abortion - releasing three ads in a month accusing Kiggans of supporting a ban on abortion without exception after Kiggans applauded the overturn of Roe v. Wade." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
62% : The Republican voters ranged from a man in a Sex Pistols shirt concerned about election integrity and the trajectory of public schools to a man wearing suspenders with his blue jeans who gave his age only as a veteran of the Korean conflict.47% : Still, she said, abortion was on her mind this season - she had seen what women and young girls lived through before Roe.
45% : In the state Senate she opposed allowing low-income women to access abortion, subsidized by state taxpayer dollars, or allowing nurse practitioners to perform abortions in the first trimester.
45% :"I've heard that too," Kiggans said, before pivoting: "What do you think of the crisis at the southern border?"Burchett ultimately wished Kiggans luck, telling her he had her brochure on his fridge and was following the race closely.
42% : I'm not here to ban abortion."
38% : "Abortion is being made as the top issue on television, but that's not the top issue with the average voter."
37% : Now, fearing politicians could try to criminalize abortion or ban it without exception, she needed to know: Where did Kiggans stand?
34% : She said she supports exceptions to abortion restrictions for rape, incest and the life of the mother, and, regarding a nationwide ban, "I'm not here to make abortion illegal.
34% : She won a tight race for an open seat in part by accusing Democrats and her opponent of being extreme on abortion, even that Democrats support "infanticide," which they decried as a lie.
32% : "She wants to make abortion illegal," a narrator said against a smiling image of Kiggans in the first ad.
22% : She later went on a radio show and accused Democrats of using abortion as a "shiny object" to distract voters from other issues such as the economy and inflation - prompting more attacks from Luria, who called the comment "insulting to women everywhere."Up against Luria's 10-1 cash-on-hand advantage at the start of the summer, the bombardment is leaving Kiggans constantly on defense against an image she says doesn't represent the real her - and perhaps leaving the district's all-important swing voters wondering: Who is the real Kiggans, anyway?- - -She rolled up in the gray Honda minivan, arriving in the red-leaning Virginia Beach neighborhood for some door-knocking after dropping her daughter off at cello practice.
16% :Now, Luria has turned to abortion - releasing three ads in a month accusing Kiggans of supporting a ban on abortion without exception after Kiggans applauded the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.