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Nevada Senate candidate Laxalt is courting the Latter-day Saint vote

Oct 19, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    18% Somewhat Conservative

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  • Policy Leaning

    -16% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -26% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : The candidate's website features family photos and, in a scene most family-focused voters might identify with, includes a video of his family gathered to watch "Star Wars.""I ran on being someone that was going to stand up for conservative values, someone that would fight for things like religious liberty," Laxalt said, referencing the multiple religious liberty cases fought by his office when he was attorney general.
45% : As Nevada's former attorney general, Laxalt has focused his campaign on rising crime, as well as inflation and border security -- issues that have affected Nevada as much, or more, than most states.

*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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