Claims extracted
26
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
8%
2 of 26 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
withheld
no quote in the article backed the model's score
Publisher signals
66/100
New York Post's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
51
Politics
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Alaska Senate hopeful Mary Peltola refrained from issuing an unequivocal denial of involvement in the effort to recruit another Dan Sullivan into the race — even as her campaign, which fired a lot of its original staff — distanced itself.
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which → refrain → itself
Instead, Peltola lashed out at the press for coverage of her team’s alleged involvement in recruiting Dan J. Sullivan, also known as “Decoy Dan,” into the Alaska Senate race to confuse incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan’s (R) voters.
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Peltola → lash → voters
It’s another diversion.
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It → ’ → ?
Every day it’s some new, you know, look over here moment.
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you → ’ → ?
And I 14 times,” she raged at an event in Soldotna, captured by freelance reporter Matt Tunseth.
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she → rag → Tunseth
“Anybody who’s working in our best interest isn’t going to talk about the nonsense.
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who → work → nonsense
This is all stuff to sell newspapers,” she added.
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she → sell → newspapers
“This is all stuff to get subscriptions.
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This → get → subscriptions
Nobody at the New York Times cares about affordability in Alaska.”
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Nobody → care → Alaska
Peltola’s campaign has been rocked by a bombshell report in the New York Times about her team’s efforts to find a man with the same name as her rival to run.
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campaign → rock → rival
“Alaskan voters need to know,” Elisa Rios, Peltola’s former campaign manager, who was ousted during a staff overhaul in August, told the outlet.
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who → need → outlet
“There was a lot of speculation, and voters should get the full picture when making their decisions,” she continued, explaining that while Peltola was not directly involved in the recruitment effort, she was “definitely aware.”
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she → be → effort
The outlet cited about a dozen sources and text messages it reviewed indicating that Peltola’s team was behind the recruitment of “Decoy Dan,” a retired public school teacher running as a Republican, despite voting for Democrats in recent presidential elections.
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team → cite → elections
Here’s the latest on the ‘Decoy Dan’ scandal in the ongoing Alaska Senate race:
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latest → ’ → race
“The Alaskans for Mary campaign has no involvement with either Sullivan campaign,” Peltola’s campaign previously told The Post.
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campaign → have → Post
“Like Mary, our campaign is focused on lowering costs and fixing the rigged system in DC.”
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campaign → focus → DC
But the question is whether the campaign previously had involvement with the recruitment of “Decoy Dan.”
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campaign → have → Dan
Additionally, Alaskans for Mary filed its statement of organization in January, after many of the key developments in the bombshell report supposedly took place.
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many → file → place
After the revelations emerged, Republicans needled Peltola with an old video of her saying that “it should be a criminal offense to lie or mislead the electorate.”
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it → emerge → electorate
In the wake of the bombshell report, the Justice Department has been ramping up its probe into whether or not Democrats attempted to confuse voters.
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Democrats → ramp → voters
The Justice Department has already filed a lawsuit aimed at blocking certification of the election if Sen. Sullivan loses, complaining that his defeat may be unfair in light of “Decoy Dan” being in the race.
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Dan → file → race
Peltola has a 1.2-point edge over Sen. Sullivan in the latest RealClearPolitics aggregate of polls.
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Peltola → have → polls
President Trump blasted Peltola in response and suggested that she should be taken off the ballot.
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she → blast → ballot
The Justice Department is also ramping up a criminal investigation.
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Department → ramp → investigation
She finished first in the open primary held in August.
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She → finish → August
The Nov. 3 election features a four-person ballot in which the winner is determined through ranked-choice voting.
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winner → feature → voting
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