USA Today Article RatingSpeaker Mike Johnson said noncitizen voting is a 'threat.' The facts say otherwise
Apr 12, 2024 View Original Article
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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
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| "Wisconsin is a battleground that Trump won in 2016, but President Joe Biden recaptured in 2020." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "After Trump won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote in 2016, he claimed without evidence that would have won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "The once-fantastical lie that the 2020 election was somehow 'stolen' from President Trump through voting-machine irregularities, foreign intervention, or out-and-out fraud has become repetitive, boring, and sad, Raffensperger wrote in National Review, a conservative magazine, in January." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "The National Association of Secretaries of State said in 2017 its members were not aware of any evidence that supports the voter fraud claims made by President Trump." | Negative | -66% Liberal |
| "The Brean Center study also looked at Virginia, New Hampshire and California -- three states Trump alleged had serious voter fraud in 2016." | Negative | -70% Liberal |
| "In Texas, which has the longest border with Mexico in the country, new voter registrations are down, according to Secretary of State Jane Nelson." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Johnson is proposing a new law to require Americans to provide proof of citizenship when they register to vote and to require states to remove noncitizens from voter rolls." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who was on Trump's infamous phone call in 2020 pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, to find votes to win the election, has been claiming noncitizens are voting as part of her new initiative called the Election Integrity Network." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Raffensperger refused Trump's request." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Johnson said Friday that an influx of immigrants under Democratic leadership is one of their designs that they created because they want to turn these people into voters." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Here is what we know about the future of Speaker Mike Johnson's job." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "There are so many illegals in the country that if only 1 out of 100 voted, they would cast potentially hundreds of thousands of votes in an election, Johnson said." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Wisconsin is a battleground that Trump won in 2016, but President Joe Biden recaptured in 2020." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Wisconsin is a battleground that Trump won in 2016, but President Joe Biden recaptured in 2020." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Speaker of the House Mike Johnson aounced Friday that Republicans would introduce a bill in Congress to prevent what he said is a threat of fraud from noncitizens voting, but data and studies show there's not a problem to be solved." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "After Trump won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote in 2016, he claimed without evidence that would have won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "The once-fantastical lie that the 2020 election was somehow 'stolen' from President Trump through voting-machine irregularities, foreign intervention, or out-and-out fraud has become repetitive, boring, and sad, Raffensperger wrote in National Review, a conservative magazine, in January." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "The National Association of Secretaries of State said in 2017 its members were not aware of any evidence that supports the voter fraud claims made by President Trump." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Standing alongside former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Johnson provided no evidence for past fraud by undocumented immigrants, instead saying, We caot wait for widespread fraud to occur." | Negative | -70% Liberal |
| "Standing alongside former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Johnson provided no evidence for past fraud by undocumented immigrants, instead saying, We caot wait for widespread fraud to occur." | Negative | -70% Liberal |
| "The Brean Center study also looked at Virginia, New Hampshire and California -- three states Trump alleged had serious voter fraud in 2016." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
35% : Wisconsin is a battleground that Trump won in 2016, but President Joe Biden recaptured in 2020.30% : "After Trump won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote in 2016, he claimed without evidence that would have won the popular vote "if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally."
28% : "The once-fantastical lie that the 2020 election was somehow 'stolen' from President Trump through voting-machine irregularities, foreign intervention, or out-and-out fraud has become repetitive, boring, and sad," Raffensperger wrote in National Review, a conservative magazine, in January.
17% : The National Association of Secretaries of State said in 2017 its members were "not aware of any evidence that supports the voter fraud claims made by President Trump.
15% : "The Brennan Center study also looked at Virginia, New Hampshire and California -- three states Trump alleged had "serious voter fraud" in 2016.
*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.