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'I was wrong': Liz Cheney announces support for same-sex marriage, reversing a longstanding position.

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    36% Somewhat Right

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    -41% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Support for same-sex marriage has reached a record high of 70 percent, according to a Gallup poll conducted last June.
57% : She reaffirmed that she was anti-abortion and supported gun rights.
56% : She said she did not regret voting to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and she proudly stated that she voted for Mr. Trump's agenda more than 90 percent of the time.
52% : Among Republicans, support for same-sex marriage was at 55 percent.
40% : But in her "60 Minutes" interview, she made it clear that support for same-sex marriage was not part of a larger softening of her conservative stances on many issues.
36% : Ms. Cheney famously came out against same-sex marriage in a television interview in 2013, while running for Senate in Wyoming, saying she believed "in the traditional definition of marriage."
29% : Ms. Cheney's reversal on the issue may be more indicative of the country's evolution on same-sex marriage than any political transformation of her own.
23% : Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming, said in an interview on CBS's "60 Minutes" on Sunday night that she was "wrong" to oppose same-sex marriage, reversing a longstanding position.

*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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