Illinois Elections Board to Vote on Whether to Put Trump, Biden on Ballots

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

29% : Voters who seek to block President Trump from the ballot argue his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, mean that he engaged in an insurrection.
21% : Activist group Free Speech for People, which has brought similar challenges in several other states, led the challenge against President Trump.
21% : "Scott Gessler, a former Colorado state secretary who represented President Trump in similar challenges in Colorado and Maine, argued the January 6 Select Committee was partisan and biased, and its materials should be excluded from evidence.
21% : Mr. Gessler argued the petitioners were using "highly spurious legal theories" to make a political point by barring President Trump from the ballot.
12% : Matthew Piers, representing the local voters challenging President Trump's eligibility, argued that President Trump was disqualified after he "repeatedly failed to denounce what happened on January 6 and has recently referred to persons convicted of criminal misconduct on that day as 'hostages.'
4% : When President Trump was disqualified as a candidate by the Colorado Supreme Court in December, it kicked off renewed efforts in several other states to remove President Trump, as well as new efforts to seek to remove President Biden from ballots.

*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.