Arizona's Latino voters and political independents could spell midterm defeats for MAGA candidates

Sep 13, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -46% Medium Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    98% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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"As part of her campaign, Lake has attempted to paint Hobbes as someone who would be ineffective on border security."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"On abortion, for instance, Masters has gone as far as scrubbing his own website of previous hard-line, anti-abortion stances and support for Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him."
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-62% Liberal
"The growth of Latino voters in Arizona contributed to Joe Biden's win in 2020 - and also the elections of Democrats Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema to the U.S. Senate."
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32% Conservative
"The growth of Latino voters in Arizona contributed to Joe Biden's win in 2020 - and also the elections of Democrats Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema to the U.S. Senate."
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32% Conservative
"The growth of Latino voters in Arizona contributed to Joe Biden's win in 2020 - and also the elections of Democrats Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema to the U.S. Senate."
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32% Conservative
"That changed in 2020 with Biden's surprising win over Trump."
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2% Conservative
"That changed in 2020 with Biden's surprising win over Trump."
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2% Conservative
"In one of the most competitive U.S. Senate races in the country, Kelly, a moderate Democrat, is favored to win."
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10% Conservative
"Most disconcerting to Democrats was the primary win of Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem, a 2020 election denier who won the Republican nomination for secretary of state over a more moderate Republican."
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2% Conservative
"If he beats Democrat Adrian Fontes in the November general election, Finchem would oversee the state's elections."
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-2% Liberal
"Bill Clinton was the only Democratic candidate to win a presidential race there since the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952."
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-4% Liberal
"That resentment played out during the Aug. 13, 2022, Republican primaries that saw Trump-endorsed candidates for U.S. Senate, governor, secretary of state and state attorney general sweep the GOP ticket."
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-14% Liberal
"While Lake is fully embracing her MAGA support, Masters is doing the opposite in the U.S. Senate race against the incumbent Kelly."
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-14% Liberal
"While each of the candidates made Trump's false claims that he won the presidential contest a central part of their campaigns, it's unclear whether that message will resonate among Arizona's increasingly diverse registered voters in the general election on Nov. 8, 2022."
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-16% Liberal
"Given the increase in Latino voters in the state, it is no surprise that tightening immigration laws is an issue among the GOP, especially among Trump supporters."
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-20% Liberal
"The state GOP is counting on President Biden's low approval ratings, high inflation and the typical midterm referendum on the incumbent's party to get its voters out on Election Day."
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-20% Liberal
"The Democrats are focusing on get-out-the-vote efforts, particularly among young Latinos, and painting the Trump-endorsed candidates as too extreme for Arizonans."
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-22% Liberal
"That possibility has Democrats fearing repeats of political acts such as the Republican-backed review of the 2020 presidential election in Arizona's largest county that ended without producing proof to support Trump's false claims of a stolen election."
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-30% Liberal
"The 2020 election was a rotten mess - if we had had a free and fair election, President Trump would be sitting in the Oval Office today and America would be so much better off."
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-30% Liberal
"(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Two years after the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump's resentment over losing continues to energize his supporters in Arizona."
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-34% Liberal
"The party that was once dominated by conservative leader Barry Goldwater and John McCain, a moderate Republican who believed in fighting against climate change, has been taken over by leaders who support the notion that Trump somehow won the state and the last presidential election."
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-38% Liberal
"The party that was once dominated by conservative leader Barry Goldwater and John McCain, a moderate Republican who believed in fighting against climate change, has been taken over by leaders who support the notion that Trump somehow won the state and the last presidential election."
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-38% Liberal
"The party that was once dominated by conservative leader Barry Goldwater and John McCain, a moderate Republican who believed in fighting against climate change, has been taken over by leaders who support the notion that Trump somehow won the state and the last presidential election."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"On abortion, for instance, Masters has gone as far as scrubbing his own website of previous hard-line, anti-abortion stances and support for Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him."
Negative
-34% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : As part of her campaign, Lake has attempted to paint Hobbes as someone who would be ineffective on border security.
19% : On abortion, for instance, Masters has gone as far as scrubbing his own website of previous hard-line, anti-abortion stances and support for Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

*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.

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