Kari Lake gets flack from both sides on abortion as she navigates Arizona law

  • Bias Rating

    4% Center

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    76% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

6% Positive

  •   Conservative
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"There's a ballot, on the November ballot, that is written by Plaed Parenthood that will eventually lead to abortion up to nine months, Lake said."
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-6% Liberal
"But that still leaves Republicans playing defense on unpopular state-level abortion bans now active because of that 2022 Supreme Court ruling -- including Lake, who describes herself as Trump in heels and faced criticism at her Thursday campaign stop."
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-50% Liberal
"On Thursday, Gallego rolled back the tape on his X account, sharing an audio recording of Lake praising the law and citing it by name."
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14% Conservative
"The student's confrontational question mirrored the tack Lake's probable Democratic challenger, Rep. Ruben Gallego, has been taking against Lake on a daily basis, referencing her comments from 2022."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"She posted her own abortion policy video, u00e0 la former President Donald Trump, and has made calls to state lawmakers to push for the repeal of the Civil War-era abortion ban in the Arizona state legislature."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Former President Donald Trump released a video on abortion policy last week, hoping to deflect criticism over his Supreme Court appointees' role in the end of Roe v. Wade and allay fears about a national ban by describing it as a states' rights issue."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"But that still leaves Republicans playing defense on unpopular state-level abortion bans now active because of that 2022 Supreme Court ruling -- including Lake, who describes herself as Trump in heels and faced criticism at her Thursday campaign stop."
Negative
-26% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : "There's a ballot, on the November ballot, that is written by Planned Parenthood that will eventually lead to abortion up to nine months," Lake said.
25% : But that still leaves Republicans playing defense on unpopular state-level abortion bans now active because of that 2022 Supreme Court ruling -- including Lake, who describes herself as "Trump in heels" and faced criticism at her Thursday campaign stop.

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