Lara Trump's Big Lie hiring: Republicans stick with the tactics that failed them in 2020 and 2022

Mar 29, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

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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

-19% Negative

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  •   Conservative
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"The 2022 midterms are especially robust in data, because it was after Trump turned election denial into a litmus test to get his endorsement."
Positive
14% Conservative
"Not a difference that suggests Trump is focused on wiing over voters."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"The good news is that, as Ed Kilgore argued for New York magazine, while Trump remains entirely capable of trying to steal the presidency, his options have narrowed."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"(She's now denying that is the plan, even though documentation shows that the fundraising agreement between Trump and the RNC does, in fact, prioritize paying Trump's legal bills over funding the party.)"
Negative
-28% Liberal
"While it's not clear what continuing the Big Lie will buy Trump and his acolytes, what is likely is that, if they keep it up, they'll face another heap of very expensive legal trouble."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"This is after Trump installed his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as a co-chair of the RNC and she vowed to use the committee's funds to pay Trump's legal bills."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"(If Trump had simply invested the money given to him by his father in a mutual fund, he would have been far richer than he got through his decades of fraud methodology.)"
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-34% Liberal
"In practice, however, Trump and his minions know that's not good propaganda."
Negative
-44% Liberal
"He will definitely not budge just because Trump is whining a lot."
Negative
-50% Liberal
"It certainly helped Democrats keep the Senate because Trump endorsees lost in close races in Georgia, Arizona, Pesylvania and Nevada.Want more Amanda Marcotte on politics?"
Negative
-52% Liberal
"Of course, as in 2020, it may just be that Trump is more focused on stealing the election than on wiing fairly."
Negative
-52% Liberal
"Whether or not Trump mounts his own self-imposed obstacles to win in 2024, one thing we can likely expect is another round of defamation lawsuits in 2025."
Negative
-52% Liberal
"Trump stigmatized mail-in ballots as a Democrat thing in 2020, as part of his years-long effort to build up the idea that the election was fraudulent before the first ballot was even cast."
Negative
-60% Liberal
"Trump rarely leaves Mar-a-Lago, while Biden is hitting the campaign trial hard."
Negative
-70% Liberal
"The 2022 midterms are especially robust in data, because it was after Trump turned election denial into a litmus test to get his endorsement."
Positive
8% Conservative
"A Trump endorsement is valuable in a competitive Republican primary, but in a general election, the Big Lie hurts a candidate."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Laura Trump speaks at the NCGOP state convention as former U.S. President Donald Trump on June 5, 2021 in Greenville, North Carolina."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Research published in spring of 2023 shows that Republicans who backed the Big Lie fell anywhere from 2.3 to 3.7 percentage points behind the performance of Republicans who admitted Biden won in 2020."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Not a difference that suggests Trump is focused on wiing over voters."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"As Blake writes:Throw in the $787.5 million Fox News agreed to pay a voting machine company over bogus theories that it aired bolstering Trump's stolen-election claims and the $148 million judgment against Giuliani, and the combined bill is north of $1 billion -- and potentially growing, thanks to Lake's capitulation and other lawsuits."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"This time, however, it's Biden who controls the White House."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"There's good reason to believe Trump's strategy of going all-in on election denial will backfire."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Under Trump's leadership, Republicans made conspiracy theories about voter fraud the centerpiece of their campaigns in 2020 and 2022."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"The good news is that, as Ed Kilgore argued for New York magazine, while Trump remains entirely capable of trying to steal the presidency, his options have narrowed."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"(She's now denying that is the plan, even though documentation shows that the fundraising agreement between Trump and the RNC does, in fact, prioritize paying Trump's legal bills over funding the party.)"
Negative
-14% Liberal
"This is after Trump installed his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as a co-chair of the RNC and she vowed to use the committee's funds to pay Trump's legal bills."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"This is after Trump installed his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as a co-chair of the RNC and she vowed to use the committee's funds to pay Trump's legal bills."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"As Aaron Blake at the Washington Post wrote Wednesday, the civil liabilities flowing from the election lies stoked by Trump keep piling up, at least for his allies."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"(If Trump had simply invested the money given to him by his father in a mutual fund, he would have been far richer than he got through his decades of fraud methodology.)"
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Under Lara Trump's leadership, there has already been a staff purge, no doubt, as these reports show, to re-staff the RNC with people who are willing to back Trump's lies about the 2020 election."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"In practice, however, Trump and his minions know that's not good propaganda."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"He will definitely not budge just because Trump is whining a lot."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"It certainly helped Democrats keep the Senate because Trump endorsees lost in close races in Georgia, Arizona, Pesylvania and Nevada.Want more Amanda Marcotte on politics?"
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Of course, as in 2020, it may just be that Trump is more focused on stealing the election than on wiing fairly."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Whether or not Trump mounts his own self-imposed obstacles to win in 2024, one thing we can likely expect is another round of defamation lawsuits in 2025."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Trump stigmatized mail-in ballots as a Democrat thing in 2020, as part of his years-long effort to build up the idea that the election was fraudulent before the first ballot was even cast."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"(Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)As with many news items in the Donald Trump era, we must file this under shocking, not surprising: People who are being interviewed by the newly Trump-controlled Republican National Committee (RNC) report that they're being asked if they believe President Joe Biden stole the 2020 election."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"(Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)As with many news items in the Donald Trump era, we must file this under shocking, not surprising: People who are being interviewed by the newly Trump-controlled Republican National Committee (RNC) report that they're being asked if they believe President Joe Biden stole the 2020 election."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Trump rarely leaves Mar-a-Lago, while Biden is hitting the campaign trial hard."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Trump rarely leaves Mar-a-Lago, while Biden is hitting the campaign trial hard."
Positive
0% Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The 2022 midterms are especially robust in data, because it was after Trump turned election denial into a litmus test to get his endorsement.
47% : Not a difference that suggests Trump is focused on winning over voters.
37% : The good news is that, as Ed Kilgore argued for New York magazine, "while Trump remains entirely capable of trying to steal the presidency, his options have narrowed."
36% : (She's now denying that is the plan, even though documentation shows that the fundraising agreement between Trump and the RNC does, in fact, prioritize paying Trump's legal bills over funding the party.)
36% : While it's not clear what continuing the Big Lie will buy Trump and his acolytes, what is likely is that, if they keep it up, they'll face another heap of very expensive legal trouble.
35% : This is after Trump installed his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as a co-chair of the RNC and she vowed to use the committee's funds to pay Trump's legal bills.
33% : (If Trump had simply invested the money given to him by his father in a mutual fund, he would have been far richer than he got through his decades of fraud methodology.)
28% : In practice, however, Trump and his minions know that's not good propaganda.
25% : He will definitely not budge just because Trump is whining a lot.
24% : It certainly helped Democrats keep the Senate because Trump endorsees lost in close races in Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Nevada.Want more Amanda Marcotte on politics?
24% : Of course, as in 2020, it may just be that Trump is more focused on stealing the election than on winning fairly.
24% : Whether or not Trump mounts his own self-imposed obstacles to win in 2024, one thing we can likely expect is another round of defamation lawsuits in 2025.
20% : Trump stigmatized mail-in ballots as a Democrat thing in 2020, as part of his years-long effort to build up the idea that the election was "fraudulent" before the first ballot was even cast.
15% : Trump rarely leaves Mar-a-Lago, while Biden is hitting the campaign trial hard.

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