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Balloon Juice - Late Night Unholy Schadenfreude Open Thread: RFK Jr Has Chosen His VP Candidate

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    6% Center

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    10% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

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36% Positive

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50% : Shanahan is also a prominent figure in Silicon Valley; she's the founder of the Bia-Echo Foundation, which invests in projects targeting "reproductive longevity and equality, criminal justice reform, and a healthy and livable planet."
49% : 1) She's got the money, and more important the Silicon Valley contacts, to splash out on a vanity candidacy; andAll the top google entries on my original search led to People articles, which is informational in its way, but this is solid reporting:Anna Merlan, for Wired, "RFK Jr. Announces VP Pick Is a Tech Entrepreneur Who Has Given His Campaign a Lot of Money":After weeks of speculation, anti-vaccine activist and independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced today that he had chosen Nicole Shanahan as his vice presidential running mate.
46% : He noted that Biden and Trump are the "two oldest presidential candidates in US history."
41% : (Kennedy, 70, is just seven years younger than Trump.)

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