Chicago Tribune Article RatingEven before the primary votes are in, a pitched battle is brewing over cultural issues between the GOP and Democrats
Jun 27, 2022 View Original Article
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| "A leading national abortion rights advocate, Pritzker has moved to enshrine a woman's right to an abortion in state law and end restrictions such as parental notification while vowing to do even more in a plaed special legislative session next month as other GOP-controlled states look to quickly restrict access to abortion." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "It is also representative, he's indicated, of the need for protections for LGBTQ people and other groups after Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his concurring opinion that the court should revisit same-sex marriage and contraception rights." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Bailey is opposed to abortion except to save the life of the mother and has said he would seek to roll back taxpayer-funded abortion for poor women and reinstate parental notification." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Davis said he was grateful for President Biden's support in this race and for his partnership in Washington, as we work to solve the pressing problems that families in Chicagoland face each and every day." | Positive | 42% Conservative |
| "Davis said he was grateful for President Biden's support in this race and for his partnership in Washington, as we work to solve the pressing problems that families in Chicagoland face each and every day." | Positive | 42% Conservative |
| "As candidates for federal, state and local nominations prepared their final day get-out-the-vote strategies, a late endorsement from President Joe Biden was aounced in the new West Side and west suburban 7th Congressional District, with Biden backing veteran Democratic U.S. Rep. Day Davis, who is facing a challenge from progressive activist Kina Collins." | Positive | 38% Conservative |
| "As candidates for federal, state and local nominations prepared their final day get-out-the-vote strategies, a late endorsement from President Joe Biden was aounced in the new West Side and west suburban 7th Congressional District, with Biden backing veteran Democratic U.S. Rep. Day Davis, who is facing a challenge from progressive activist Kina Collins." | Positive | 38% Conservative |
| "As candidates for federal, state and local nominations prepared their final day get-out-the-vote strategies, a late endorsement from President Joe Biden was aounced in the new West Side and west suburban 7th Congressional District, with Biden backing veteran Democratic U.S. Rep. Day Davis, who is facing a challenge from progressive activist Kina Collins." | Positive | 38% Conservative |
| "I know Rep. Davis will continue to be an essential partner in getting it done." | Positive | 38% Conservative |
| "Representative Day Davis has always been an effective leader and lawmaker who is deeply rooted in his community." | Positive | 28% Conservative |
| "On Sunday, first-term Gov. J.B. Pritzker and other Democrats seeking statewide office joined in the celebration of Chicago's Pride Parade and took the opportunity to warn that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling overturning national abortion protections could extend to eliminating other rights." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "He serves with passion and integrity, and that's why I'm endorsing him in his upcoming primary, Biden said in a statement released by Davis' campaign." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "He serves with passion and integrity, and that's why I'm endorsing him in his upcoming primary, Biden said in a statement released by Davis' campaign." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Ruing what began as an evangelical populist campaign based in the state's rural, heavily Republican Downstate, Bailey has since seen his support rise across Illinois in line with an increasing rightward movement of GOP voters accelerated by their loyalty to Trump." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Ruing what began as an evangelical populist campaign based in the state's rural, heavily Republican Downstate, Bailey has since seen his support rise across Illinois in line with an increasing rightward movement of GOP voters accelerated by their loyalty to Trump." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Bailey's campaign also has benefited from ultraconservative billionaire megadonor Richard Uihlein, who has contributed $17 million to the candidate as well as an independent expenditure group allied with Bailey." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Bailey's campaign also has benefited from ultraconservative billionaire megadonor Richard Uihlein, who has contributed $17 million to the candidate as well as an independent expenditure group allied with Bailey." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "But Collins said the endorsement was an example of Davis, who has served in Congress since 1997, using his resources to call in favors to save himself rather than assisting the district's residents." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Nearly 250 miles to the southwest in Quincy, state Sen. Darren Bailey of Xenia celebrated Saturday's endorsement for the GOP nomination for governor from former President Donald Trump by saying he plaed to visit a nearby church." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Nearly 250 miles to the southwest in Quincy, state Sen. Darren Bailey of Xenia celebrated Saturday's endorsement for the GOP nomination for governor from former President Donald Trump by saying he plaed to visit a nearby church." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Before stepping onto the parade route, Pritzker said he and supporters would be marching for pride, marching for LGBTQ rights, for choice and for making sure that we're fighting back against the Supreme Court that's trying to take away people's rights.There'll be some celebrating and, of course, some protests as a result of what happened on Friday, the Democratic governor said of the parade." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Rabine had hosted a fundraiser for Trump and cultivated ties with loyalists of the former president." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The purpose of the Republican primary is to pick the Republican opponent that is capable enough, prepared enough, to actually beat Pritzker." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Bailey's road to potential victory was paved in part by tens of millions of dollars in advertising and mailers spent by Pritzker and the Democratic Governors Association because Bailey is viewed as an easier challenger for Pritzker to defeat in November." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "Bailey's road to potential victory was paved in part by tens of millions of dollars in advertising and mailers spent by Pritzker and the Democratic Governors Association because Bailey is viewed as an easier challenger for Pritzker to defeat in November." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "Bailey's road to potential victory was paved in part by tens of millions of dollars in advertising and mailers spent by Pritzker and the Democratic Governors Association because Bailey is viewed as an easier challenger for Pritzker to defeat in November." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "Bailey's road to potential victory was paved in part by tens of millions of dollars in advertising and mailers spent by Pritzker and the Democratic Governors Association because Bailey is viewed as an easier challenger for Pritzker to defeat in November." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "A leading national abortion rights advocate, Pritzker has moved to enshrine a woman's right to an abortion in state law and end restrictions such as parental notification while vowing to do even more in a plaed special legislative session next month as other GOP-controlled states look to quickly restrict access to abortion." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "As a member of the legislature, Bailey also has opposed LGBTQ rights, most recently contending that teaching children about the role the community has played in history in state-approved textbooks is sexualizing kids and forces schools to indoctrinate our kids with their far-left ideology." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "The dad is supposed to be out, you know, teaching his children hard work, ethics, honesty and integrity, Bailey said in an April 4 interview on Outside the Beltway." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "We are astray and it's because we've allowed career politicians to deceive us, to misguide us and to take us to places where we should never have gone, Bailey told his followers on Facebook." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "He has called Pritzker a tyrant for the governor's pandemic mitigation orders and has seized on a long-standing political tactic of regionalism that relies on the stereotype that those outside Chicago are shortchanged compared with Chicago residents over how tax dollars are shared." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "One candidate, venture capitalist Jesse Sullivan of Petersburg, said that unfortunately, the endorsement that has mattered most in this primary has been J.B. Pritzker's, with tens of millions of dollars spent to fool Republican voters and hand-pick the weakest opponent in November, Darren Bailey." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "One candidate, venture capitalist Jesse Sullivan of Petersburg, said that unfortunately, the endorsement that has mattered most in this primary has been J.B. Pritzker's, with tens of millions of dollars spent to fool Republican voters and hand-pick the weakest opponent in November, Darren Bailey." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Bailey is the most conservative among six contenders for the Republican nomination for governor." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Irvin, whose bid was backed by $50 million from hedge-fund CEO Ken Griffin, who aounced last week he was moving his Citadel investment firm out of Chicago and to Miami, also contended Bailey could not defeat Pritzker in the fall." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Irvin, whose bid was backed by $50 million from hedge-fund CEO Ken Griffin, who aounced last week he was moving his Citadel investment firm out of Chicago and to Miami, also contended Bailey could not defeat Pritzker in the fall." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "All I can say is that Darren Bailey's too conservative for Illinois and he proved it." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Bailey also has spoken in biblical terms of the decline of the family unit and the role of women and has called transgender rights the moral rot that is destroying society." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Bailey has even sponsored legislation calling for Chicago to be split from the rest of Illinois, arguing the state's largest city and economic engine forces its liberal urban values on conservatives in rural Illinois." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The ads have attacked rival Republican candidate Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin and portrayed Bailey as too conservative for Illinois -- a backhanded way of encouraging Bailey support among the GOP base." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The ads have attacked rival Republican candidate Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin and portrayed Bailey as too conservative for Illinois -- a backhanded way of encouraging Bailey support among the GOP base." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Pritzker, his renomination as the Democratic nominee for governor virtually assured against nominal opposition, has made the court's ruling overturning Roe v. Wade a top issue heading into the fall." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Bailey is opposed to abortion except to save the life of the mother and has said he would seek to roll back taxpayer-funded abortion for poor women and reinstate parental notification." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Rival candidate Gary Rabine of Bull Valley said he was disappointed in Trump's endorsement of Bailey." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Rival candidate Gary Rabine of Bull Valley said he was disappointed in Trump's endorsement of Bailey." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Our state is in a crisis and nothing will change unless J.B. Pritzker loses in November, Rabine said." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "But Bailey's camp viewed Trump's long-sought endorsement as a key to victory on Tuesday, a development that sent Bailey's GOP rivals arguing the state senator will not be electable in the fall." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "But Bailey's camp viewed Trump's long-sought endorsement as a key to victory on Tuesday, a development that sent Bailey's GOP rivals arguing the state senator will not be electable in the fall." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "But Bailey's camp viewed Trump's long-sought endorsement as a key to victory on Tuesday, a development that sent Bailey's GOP rivals arguing the state senator will not be electable in the fall." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "For his part, Pritzker said Bailey's acceptance of Trump's endorsement seems to me an acknowledgment on his part that he's willing to go down a terrible rabbit hole that will sink the Republican Party." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "For his part, Pritzker said Bailey's acceptance of Trump's endorsement seems to me an acknowledgment on his part that he's willing to go down a terrible rabbit hole that will sink the Republican Party." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "For his part, Pritzker said Bailey's acceptance of Trump's endorsement seems to me an acknowledgment on his part that he's willing to go down a terrible rabbit hole that will sink the Republican Party." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "DeVore is a Downstate ally of Bailey and served as Bailey's lawyer in lawsuits -- eventually unsuccessful -- that sought to challenge Pritzker's COVID-19 mitigation orders." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "DeVore is a Downstate ally of Bailey and served as Bailey's lawyer in lawsuits -- eventually unsuccessful -- that sought to challenge Pritzker's COVID-19 mitigation orders." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "DeVore is a Downstate ally of Bailey and served as Bailey's lawyer in lawsuits -- eventually unsuccessful -- that sought to challenge Pritzker's COVID-19 mitigation orders." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
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47% : A leading national abortion rights advocate, Pritzker has moved to enshrine a woman's right to an abortion in state law and end restrictions such as parental notification while vowing to do even more in a planned special legislative session next month as other GOP-controlled states look to quickly restrict access to abortion.46% : It is also representative, he's indicated, of the need for protections for LGBTQ people and other groups after Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his concurring opinion that the court should revisit same-sex marriage and contraception rights.
35% : Bailey is opposed to abortion except to save the life of the mother and has said he would seek to roll back taxpayer-funded abortion for poor women and reinstate parental notification.
*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.