Reason Article RatingHow Worrying Are Pro-Trump Gubernatorial Candidates Running on Rigged Election Claims?
Apr 29, 2022 View Original Article
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| "And in Perdue's telling, everything from rising gas prices to illegal immigration and even the U.S. coming to the brink of war over Russia's invasion of Ukraine were the result of Kemp allowing radical Democrats to steal our election." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "In Arizona, incumbent Gov. Doug Ducey memorably sent Trump to voicemail and (like Kemp) dutifully certified the election results showing Biden's win in the state in 2020." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "In Arizona, incumbent Gov. Doug Ducey memorably sent Trump to voicemail and (like Kemp) dutifully certified the election results showing Biden's win in the state in 2020." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "In Arizona, incumbent Gov. Doug Ducey memorably sent Trump to voicemail and (like Kemp) dutifully certified the election results showing Biden's win in the state in 2020." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "In Arizona, incumbent Gov. Doug Ducey memorably sent Trump to voicemail and (like Kemp) dutifully certified the election results showing Biden's win in the state in 2020." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "(For the sake of comparison, Ducey won the state by more than 14 points in 2018.)" | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Perhaps, like Trump, he can parlay that into a general election win." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "For now, though, the best way to view these GOP primaries is as a test case for the staying power of Trump's election grievances." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "And in Perdue's telling, everything from rising gas prices to illegal immigration and even the U.S. coming to the brink of war over Russia's invasion of Ukraine were the result of Kemp allowing radical Democrats to steal our election." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "After that audit was completed and revealed that Biden had, in fact, prevailed in Arizona, she called for decertifying the results anyway." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "But he also certified the result of the 2020 election, against Trump's wishes." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "His campaign website splashes a big picture of a smiling Perdue and griing Trump, reminding voters that Perdue is the only Trump-endorsed candidate for governor." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "His campaign website splashes a big picture of a smiling Perdue and griing Trump, reminding voters that Perdue is the only Trump-endorsed candidate for governor." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Fittingly, the race also includes state Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman (R-Centre) who played the role of Pesylvania's Brian Kemp in 2020." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Early on, her campaign loudly proclaimed that she would seek to retroactively decertify the 2020 results if an audit showed that Trump had actually won the state." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "In an age when the power of political endorsements has faded significantly, Trump seems to be the exception to the rule." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Trump has helped Perdue fundraise and has even chipped in $500,000 of his own campaign cash to Perdue's campaign." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Something that he says Kemp was responsible for aiding and abetting." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Two weeks after the election, as state officials finalized the results showing that Joe Biden won by about 12,000 votes, Kemp called for tightening voter ID laws in Georgia and making other technical changes in how the state conducts future elections." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Two weeks after the election, as state officials finalized the results showing that Joe Biden won by about 12,000 votes, Kemp called for tightening voter ID laws in Georgia and making other technical changes in how the state conducts future elections." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Perdue has put Trump's election grievances front and center in his campaign." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "But Georgia is hardly the only swing state where this year's Republican gubernatorial elections are focused on Trump." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "They'll say whatever they think gives them the best chance at getting elected -- and polls say the majority of Republican voters believe, despite massive amounts of evidence to the contrary, that Biden's victory was not legitimate." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "When Trump's allies were pressuring top Republicans in state governments to overturn results in a handful of close states, including Pesylvania, Corman backed a legislative audit of the vote tallies but refused to take more radical steps like appointing an alternative slate of electors to represent Pesylvania at the Electoral College." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "This Republican primary season will test the limits and staying power of Trump's election grievances." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Two years after Trump became the first Republican to lose Georgia since 1992, Perdue is staking his claim to the governorship on the hope that Republican voters are motivated primarily by the former president's delusions and rage." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "The gubernatorial candidate who can claim to have risked the most in support of Trump is probably Pesylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano (R-Fayetteville), who attended the January 6, 2021, election protest in Washington, D.C., that devolved into a riot at the U.S. Capitol." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Perdue, a former Republican senator who lost his bid for reelection in 2020, is now ruing against incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp in the GOP gubernatorial primary in Georgia." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "If they're successful, those governors might create major complications for the next presidential election -- as they would be in a position to do some of what Kemp, and others, refused to do in 2020: decertify results that go against the Republican nominee." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Without people like Kemp and Ducey to ensure that legitimate electoral outcomes are certified, the argument goes, the outcome could be rigged long before the official counting of the electoral votes in Congress." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Without people like Kemp and Ducey to ensure that legitimate electoral outcomes are certified, the argument goes, the outcome could be rigged long before the official counting of the electoral votes in Congress." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "So that's what the pols are saying.To be sure, cynically refusing to accept election results for future political gain is not unique to Trump or to Republicans." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "In Pesylvania and Arizona, too, Trump-backed candidates who say they believe the 2020 election was stolen are ruing at or near the top of the polls." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "These three races will provide an answer -- and it might not be one Trump likes, as his preferred candidates are facing difficult paths to wiing in November." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Lake has gone further than simply second-guessing Ducey." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Biden has gone a step further and declared that future contests should be viewed as illegitimate if Congress does not adopt Democrats' proposed election reforms -- though the White House later walked back that claim." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Hillary Clinton has repeatedly called into question the legitimacy of Trump's 2016 victory." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Hillary Clinton has repeatedly called into question the legitimacy of Trump's 2016 victory." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Polls show Mastriano ruing neck-and-neck with Lou Barletta, the former mayor of Hazleton, Pesylvania, who rose to prominence via political stunts like making English the town's official language and trying to ban illegal immigrants from working there." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Trump really wants Kemp gone, remember?" | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Audits and recounts in swing state after swing state failed to turn up evidence of a stolen election -- one much-ballyhooed audit conducted by Arizona Republicans actually found that Biden won by a slightly larger margin than originally thought." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Since then, he's been a target for Trump, who vowed not long after the 2020 election to boot Kemp from office." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Since then, he's been a target for Trump, who vowed not long after the 2020 election to boot Kemp from office." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "In Pesylvania and Arizona, candidates who would probably be well beyond the fringes in a more typical primary season are effectively trying to ride Trump's coattails (and his grievances), even in a year where Trump's not actually on the ballot." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "In Pesylvania and Arizona, candidates who would probably be well beyond the fringes in a more typical primary season are effectively trying to ride Trump's coattails (and his grievances), even in a year where Trump's not actually on the ballot." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Dozens of lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign or its supporters alleging voter fraud and anti-Trump conspiracies collapsed in court." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "The video that plays on the front page isn't a message from Perdue about his campaign or the issues vital to Georgians -- it's a 73-second tirade by Trump in which he condemns Kemp for letting us down." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "The video that plays on the front page isn't a message from Perdue about his campaign or the issues vital to Georgians -- it's a 73-second tirade by Trump in which he condemns Kemp for letting us down." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Is this really how Republican voters want to define their party going forward: as little more than a tool for for Trump's self-serving lies about the 2020 election?" | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Kemp, of course, was one of the Republican officials who blocked then-President Donald Trump's attempt to get state legislatures and governors to overturn the results of the 2020 election." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "Kemp, of course, was one of the Republican officials who blocked then-President Donald Trump's attempt to get state legislatures and governors to overturn the results of the 2020 election." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "Perhaps it's too simple of an explanation, but the average Republican voter is likely not as motivated by Trump's grievances as Trump himself." | Negative | -54% Liberal |
| "Perhaps it's too simple of an explanation, but the average Republican voter is likely not as motivated by Trump's grievances as Trump himself." | Negative | -54% Liberal |
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52% : And in Perdue's telling, everything from rising gas prices to illegal immigration and even the U.S. coming "to the brink of war" over Russia's invasion of Ukraine were the result of Kemp allowing "radical Democrats to steal our election."*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.