Tag: political

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/daca-update-today-immigrants-brought-us-children-ask-judges-keep-protections-deportation/15413072/

CBS2
— Harris reiterates support for “Dreamers,” as she courts Latino voters at town hall (COMMENT: To get more votes from those who have demographics that vote for Democrats, Democrat candidates promise to use government to give them more preference.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harris-dreamers-latino-voters-during-univision/

WGN9
— Former President Trump makes Chicago stop after speaking in Detroit
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/former-president-trump-makes-chicago-stop-after-speaking-in-detroit/

FOX32
— Tight security in Chicago for Trump visit
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1530524
— Trump stays in downtown Chicago Thursday night before heading to Colorado on Friday
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/donald-trump-chicago-oct-10-2024
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1530378
— Michael Madigan trial: Potential jurors questioned about possible biases (COMMENT: Democrat and RINO leaders promote bias against those who share Trump’s demographics. Madigan and Trump are both White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Christian, and have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. What percent of the jury pool is biased against those demographics?)
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/michael-madigan-trial-potential-jurors-questioned-possible-biases

WGN9
— Former President Trump makes Chicago stop after speaking in Detroit
https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/former-president-trump-makes-chicago-stop-after-speaking-in-detroit/

WBEZ
— ‘No overnight encampments’: Chicago universities tell students where they can and can’t exercise free speech. Officials say the new rules protect students and teaching. Faculty and students say they threaten pro-Palestinian speech. (COMMENT: When I was a UIC student 1966-1968, I lived with my parents and brother in Crete and I worked all the part-time hours that I could for the Park Forest Post Office.)
https://www.wbez.org/education/2024/10/10/no-overnight-encampments-no-amplified-sound-before-5-p-m-chicago-universities-tell-students-where-they-can-and-cant-exercise-free-speech

WBBM
— OUTSTANDING: House GOP Leader Tony McCombie is pushing for passage of a bill requiring people to register to vote in Illinois to provide proof of U-S citizenship. Right now, people just have to, under penalty of perjury, say that they are citizens.
https://www.audacy.com/wxrt/news/local/state-bill-requires-proof-of-citizenship-to-register-to-vote

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— CPS chief Pedro Martinez says he didn’t want to fight the mayor or quit: ‘I love this job’  “I always supported the mayor because he was the person that said, ‘We need to invest more in our schools,’” Pedro Martinez said in an interview with the Sun-Times.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2024/10/10/pedro-martinez-chicago-public-schools-ceo-brandon-johnson-cps
— Trump, Harris are both hostile to free speech (COMMENT: My critics/opponents are hostile to free speech. They do everything that can to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and to stop everyone from reading them. I should write about my critics/opponents.)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/10/10/trump-harris-free-speech-supreme-court-test-jd-vance-tim-walz-jacob-sullum

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— What stops illegals from using their false identifications to register to vote so that they can vote for Harris/Walz and for the rest of the Democrat candidates?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/10/09/voter-fraud-explainer/

CHICAGO CRUSADER
— Early voting off to slow start in Chicago’s Black wards
https://chicagocrusader.com/early-voting-off-to-slow-start-in-chicagos-black-wards/

RIVER BENDER
— Democrats ever-increasingly use “equity” to demand that the demographics of those who pass tests be equal, that is, if X% of those who take a test are minority and/or female, X% have of those who pass that test must be minority and/or female. My critics/opponents stress that very few of those who took the CPA examination with me in 1979 and extremely few of those who took the Certified Internal Auditor examination with me in 1981 were minorities and/or females and that far fewer of them passed the examinations on their first attempt like I did. According to my critics/opponents, that was because I have always benefitted tremendously from discrimination against minorities and against females. In my defense, neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/making-student-success-and-college-access-commonplace-was-a-refrain-at-southern-illinois-university-systems-equity-symposium-76439.cfm

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrats ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Christopher Columbus.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2024/10/11/springfield-high-school-students-want-recognition-for-indigenous-peoples/75568399007/

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Ever-increasingly, Democrats and RINOs hint/imply/argue/shout that the more of the following that you are, the more that you have benefitted from slavery and from discrimination against those who are not the following: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. According to my critics/opponents, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitted from slavery and from discrimination against those who are not the aforesaid. They stress that my ancestors have been in America since 1844. In my defense and in my ancestors’ defense, I stress that we have always lived in northeast Illinois, that we never were in a position to discriminate against anyone, and that we never did discriminate against anyone. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college. Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI are reparations. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always used AA and DEI to make me pay reparations. When I was 49 years old in 1997, they forced me to retire early and they gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. Of course, Democrats and RINOs have no problem with that.
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/video-u-s-sen-tammy-duckworth-speaks-during-the-1908-springfield-race-riot-community-commemoration/video_218b52ca-3d79-5d79-95d8-e41efc8331c0.html

WGLT
— Harris uses town hall to show empathy with Latino voters (COMMENT: To get more votes from those who have demographics that vote for Democrats, Democrat candidates promise to use government to give them more preference.)
https://www.wglt.org/2024-10-10/harris-uses-town-hall-to-show-empathy-with-latino-voters

FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump says ’60 Minutes’ edited Harris interview because her answers were ‘crazy or dumb’
https://foxillinois.com/news/beyond-the-podium/trump-says-60-minutes-edited-harris-interview-because-her-answers-were-crazy-or-dumb-2024-presidential-election-politics-donald-kamala-jd-vance-tim-walz-vote-voting-polls-economy-inflation-tiffany-pregnant

LAKE FOREST PATCH
— $1.13 Million Awarded To Help Asylum-Seekers In Lake County. Created in response to Abbott’s border policy, the grants will go to housing, legal aid and health care for new arrivals. (COMMENT: Lake County today, your county tomorrow.)
https://patch.com/illinois/lakeforest/1-13-million-grants-headed-help-asylum-seekers-lake-county
(FROM THE ARTICLE:  As the federal government tightens asylum rules amid growing national tension over immigration, the Lake County Board this week unanimously voted to accept an expanded state grant to assist asylum-seekers. Lake County is the only county in Illinois to receive funding through the Supporting Municipalities for Asylum Seeker Services, or SMASS, program, which is now in its second year. The SMASS program focuses on funding services such as shelter and transitional housing support, food assistance, wraparound services, legal help and health and wellness care. The Metropolitan Mayors Caucus administers the program, distributing state money on behalf of the Illinois Department of Human Services. This year, Lake County officials secured a grant worth more than $1.13 million, an increase of about 9 percent from what they received last year. Mano a Mano Family Resource Center, which serves immigrant families, will receive $924,298 of that money, while North Suburban Legal Aid will get $184,404 to provide legal assistance to asylum-seekers. Lake County will retain $21,536 to cover administrative costs for managing the program. The North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic was founded in 2015 by Nancy Rotering, who is also a member of executive board the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus. Gov. J.B. Pritzker said the SMASS program was created in response to the policy of the Texas state government to provide people who show up at the southern border with free transportation to sanctuary cities. “As we continue to call for further federal support, and as Illinois takes a stand against the callous ways Texas Gov. Abbott is using human beings as political pawns, these grants will lend support where it is needed throughout the state,” Pritzker said, announcing the funding earlier this year. More than 49,000 asylum-seekers have arrived in Chicago on buses and planes since September 2022, not including those arriving independently or via Greyhound, according to city officials. In addition to the Lake County grant, several other municipalities and organizations across Illinois were awarded funding for the 2025 fiscal year through the SMASS program. Champaign received nearly $710,000, Oak Park was awarded about $300,000 and Ford Heights secured almost $1.24 million. As for non-governmental groups, BEDS Plus Inc. received $878,000, Centro de Informacíon was granted nearly $1.7 million, The Immigration Project was awarded more than $702,000, Respond Now received more than $706,000, Rincon Family Services secured over $1.4 million, Western Illinois Dreamers was granted nearly $375,000, and World Relief Quad Cities received more than $367,000 to support services for asylum-seekers and individuals experiencing homelessness. This local initiative comes during an election season in which President Joe Biden and candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris are facing increasing pressure over their administration’s handling of immigration and border security. Last month, Biden administration officials announced tougher asylum restrictions, requiring that the daily number of border crossings remain below 1,500 for nearly a month before easing restrictions on asylum applications. That move, which builds on earlier policies introduced in June, has drawn sharp criticism from immigration advocates, who argue that it effectively denies asylum to those fleeing persecution.)

NIU
— NIU’s new freshman class excels academically, earns more than $6.3 million in merit scholarships (COMMENT: Did you get any merit scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always used that against me. In my defense, neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, my mother never attended high school, and I had to work my way through college. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours a) washing dishes during my junior and senior years in high school and b) delivering mail while I was a UIC and then NIU student. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents had lots of money, who bought them cars, who paid for their college expenses, and/or who got them jobs.)
https://niutoday.info/2024/09/17/nius-new-freshman-class-excels-academically-earns-more-than-6-3-million-in-merit-scholarships/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Parade tension: Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative has issued a statement criticizing plans for Monday’s Columbus Day Parade. The Native American group says it does not support Columbus Day and accused the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans of giving the “wrong impression” that Native Americans support the event just because one group, the Native American Guardian Association, is participating.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2024/10/11/rep-chuy-garcia-butts-heads-with-mayor-brandon-johnson-on-police-station-plan-00183410

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WILLIAM J KELLY
— KELLY QUESTIONS JOHNSON ON THE RACE CARD
https://x.com/Williamjkelly/status/1844420546508800219
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is doing EXACTLY what Lori Lightfoot did I tried to hold her accountable for her failed leadership – cry racism. Johnson isn’t even two years into his term and every attempt to question him on his CPS coup and reckless $300M CTU loan ask, his migrant spending that has triggered a nearly $1B debt for next year and his flip flop on police hiring and ShotSpotter, results in the same answer – racism! Chicagoans say that he is worse than Lori Lightfoot – so that’s what I asked him yesterday and you know what his answer was? “I am not a black lesbian!”)

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— GAO is less than a shell of what it once was. But virtually all of its employees are Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they used Republican-led budget cuts to get rid of the agency’s employees like me who were Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I should write a book about the aforesaid.  – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— DeSantis slaps down theories of climate change (COMMENT: Democrats ever-increasingly run America and blame Republicans for everything that is bad including bad weather.)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/oct/10/ron-desantis-slaps-down-theories-of-climate-change/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Academia caves to the DEI mob
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3184504/academia-caves-to-dei-mob/
— California dreaming: Why Trump is flirting with blue states
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3185302/why-trump-is-flirting-with-blue-states/

NEW YORK POST
— Kamala Harris leans on Dem heavyweights, stages media blitz as polls show her slipping against Trump
https://nypost.com/2024/10/10/us-news/kamala-harris-leans-on-dem-heavyweights-stages-media-blitz-as-polls-show-her-slipping-against-trump/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Venezuelan gang seizes San Antonio apartment complex
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/10/venezuelan_gang_seizes_san_antonio_apartment_complex.html

BLAZE
— Musk explains how we’re on the verge of becoming a one-party country in Tucker Carlson interview  (COMMENT: RINOs have absolutely no problem with that. RINOs are Democrat plants.)
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-rubin-report/elon-musk-explains-how-were-on-the-verge-of-becoming-a-one-party-country-in-tucker-carlson-interview

BREITBART
— NYC Mayor Eric Adams to Spend $2.3 Billion on Hotel Rooms for Migrants Through 2025
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/10/10/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-to-spend-2-3-billion-on-hotel-rooms-for-migrants-through-2025/
— Heritage, GOP Politicians Working to Exclude Illegal Votes in the 2024 Election
https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/10/10/heritage-gop-politicians-step-up-to-block-voting-by-illegals/

COLLEGE FIX
— DEI isn’t gone — it’s rebranded
https://www.thecollegefix.com/bulletin-board/dei-isnt-gone-its-rebranding-professor-warns/

DAILY WIRE
— Classy Barack Obama Mocks Trump, Implies He Wears Diapers. In 2016, Obama ripped “vulgar and divisive rhetoric” in politics.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/classy-barack-obama-mocks-trump-implies-he-wears-diapers

FEDERALIST
— Kamala Harris Doubles Down On Facilitating Biden’s Border Invasion If Elected
https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/11/kamala-harris-doubles-down-on-facilitating-bidens-border-invasion-if-elected/
— Democrats’ Idea Of Progress Is Shoveling Billions Of Dollars To Illegals And Insurance Companies
https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/10/reports-democrats-idea-of-progress-is-shoveling-billions-of-dollars-to-illegals-and-insurance-companies/
— How Feminism Makes Everyone Transgender
https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/10/how-feminism-makes-everyone-transgender-and-what-to-do-about-it/
— The Christian Case For Voting For Trump
https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/11/the-christian-case-for-voting-for-trump/

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Congress Abandons the SAVE Act, Squandering another Opportunity to Safeguard our Election Process
https://www.fairus.org/congress-abandons-save-act-squandering-another-opportunity-safeguard-our-election-process

FOX NEWS
— Trump, Harris locked in dead heat in 7 battleground states, poll finds: ‘Could not be closer’  Trump leads Harris 46% to 45% among all swing state voters surveyed.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-harris-locked-dead-heat-7-battleground-states-poll-finds-could-not-closer
— Voters in key battleground states give Trump an edge over Harris on this top tier issue: immigration
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-dominates-harris-key-issue-battleground-states
— ‘Traitor’ Liz Cheney walloped by Wyoming voters for Harris endorsement, break with GOP. Wyoming voters slam Liz Cheney as ‘turncoat,’ ‘traitor’ for endorsing Harris. (COMMENT: Anticipate/expect that all my critics/opponents, all their operatives, and all their dupes will vote for Harris/Walz.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/traitor-liz-cheney-walloped-wyoming-voters-harris-endorsement-break-gop
— Haitian migration into US becomes major political issue as election looms
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/haitian-migration-us-becomes-major-political-issue-election-looms

JUDICIAL WATCH
— “White Privilege” Being Taught at the Air Force Academy? Judicial Watch Sues!”
https://www.judicialwatch.org/videos/white-privilege-being-taught-at-the-air-force-academy-judicial-watch-sues/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Danger of Misinformation about Chemical Abortions
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/10/the-danger-of-misinformation-about-chemical-abortions/

NEW AMERICAN
— CDC: One in 30 High Schoolers Is Transgender (COMMENT: How successful have Democrats been making the students in your school district sexually active LGBTQers?)
https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/cdc-one-in-30-high-schoolers-is-transgender/?tts=1

NEWSMAX
— Court to Hear Case for 535K Dreamers to Get Legal Status
https://www.newsmax.com/us/dreamers-illegals-migrants/2024/10/10/id/1183536/

PJ MEDIA
— ‘Equity’ Is Racism: Illinois Bill Offers Money Based Off Students’ Race
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/10/10/equity-is-racism-illinois-bill-offers-based-off-students-race-n4933215
— Vance: Illegal Aliens Crowd U.S. Millennials Out of Housing Market
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/10/10/vance-illegal-aliens-crowd-us-millennials-out-of-housing-market-n4933226

SEAN HANNITY
— NYC Needs 14,000 Hotel Rooms to Shelter Illegal Migrants, Set to Cost $2.3 Billion (COMMENT: My ancestors came to America legally. On my father’s side, they worked in a brick factory in Chicago and then homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township.)
https://hannity.com/media-room/cost-of-a-crisis-nyc-needs-14000-hotel-rooms-to-shelter-illegal-migrants-set-to-cost-2-3-billion-report/

TOWNHALL
— Another Illegal Alien Just Committed a Horrendous Crime Under Biden-Harris
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/10/10/illegal-alien-arrested-for-raping-child-n2646044

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Obama’s Crude Joke About Trump Backfires
https://www.westernjournal.com/obamas-crude-joke-trump-backfires-sparks-backlash-viewers-make-opinions-known/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— 40 percent in new survey planning to vote early
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4928253-early-voting-plans-2024-gallup-survey/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against those who do not share their hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/10/us/politics/trump-voters-black-latino.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/10/opinion/violence-election-day.html

WASHINGTON POST
— To promote minority female Harris and to defeat White male Trump, Democrats ever-increasingly turn minorities and females against Whites and males.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/10/is-trump-campaigns-male-dominated-culture-losing-women-votes/

REUTERS
— Who promotes Trump in your county, township, and municipality?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-overtakes-trump-among-suburban-voters-reutersipsos-polling-shows-2024-10-10/

NEWSWEEK
— Ever-increasingly, Democrats and RINOs hint/imply/argue/shout that the more of the following that you are, the more that you have benefitted from slavery and from discrimination against those who are not the following: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. According to my critics/opponents, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitted from slavery and from discrimination against those who are not the aforesaid. They stress that my ancestors have been in America since 1844. In my defense and in my ancestors’ defense, I stress that we have always lived in northeast Illinois, that we never were in a position to discriminate against anyone, and that we never did discriminate against anyone. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college. Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI are reparations. My critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes have always used AA and DEI to make me pay reparations. When I was 49 years old in 1997, they forced me to retire early and they gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. Of course, Democrats and RINOs have no problem with that.
https://www.newsweek.com/kyle-korver-racism-white-people-nba-1388869

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Trump Movie Too Controversial for Hollywood Is Finally Here. From studios who didn’t want to distribute the film to cease-and-desist letters from Trump lawyers, ‘The Apprentice’ makes its debut just weeks before Election Day.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/film/the-apprentice-movie-sebastian-stan-donald-trump-38f4b3cd

FORTUNE
— Trump’s odds have surged over the past week and he now holds a 2-vote electoral college lead
https://fortune.com/2024/10/10/latest-trump-harris-poll-election-odds/
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees. RINO organizations ever-increasingly use DEI a) to not admit Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican members. Anticipate/expect that the Milton Township Republican organization will run one of their DEI registered “Republicans” in my precinct against me for Republican Precinct Committeeman in 2026.
https://fortune.com/2024/10/10/lawyer-neal-katyal-companies-dei-rollback-wimps/

FAST COMPANY
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees. RINO organizations ever-increasingly use DEI a) to not admit Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican members. Anticipate/expect that the Milton Township Republican organization will run one of their DEI registered “Republicans” in my precinct against me for Republican Precinct Committeeman in 2026.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91206340/why-dei-isnt-doomed-even-if-some-brands-are-rolling-back-their-efforts

BENEFIT NEWS
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly use DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees. RINO organizations ever-increasingly use DEI a) to not admit Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican members. Anticipate/expect that the Milton Township Republican organization will run one of their DEI registered “Republicans” in my precinct against me for Republican Precinct Committeeman in 2026.
https://www.benefitnews.com/opinion/the-science-of-inclusion-and-equity-for-business-success

CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
— Where Are the White Students?  Their numbers are dropping faster than any other groups. (COMMENT: How much success have Democrats had in your school district had replacing a) Whites with minorities, b) males with females, c) Protestants with non-Protestants, d) German Americans with non-German Americans, e) those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time with those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time, f) heterosexuals with LGBTQers, and g) citizens of America with citizens of foreign counties?)
https://www.chronicle.com/article/where-are-the-white-students
https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/afternoon-update/2024-10-10

PEW RESEARCH
— Accuracy of election news  (COMMENT: Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media presents its anti-conservative anti-Republican opinions as being news.)
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2024/10/10/accuracy-of-election-news/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Most U.S. adults (73%) say they see inaccurate election news at least somewhat often, including 37% who say they see this extremely or very often. Only 3% of Americans say they don’t see inaccurate news about the election at all. Republicans and independents who lean toward the Republican Party are about twice as likely as Democrats and Democratic leaners to say they come across inaccurate election news extremely or very often (51% vs. 24%). Meanwhile, about a third of Democrats (36%) say they see inaccurate election news not too often or not at all, while just 14% of Republicans say the same. Conservative Republicans are more likely than Republicans who describe themselves as moderate or liberal to report seeing inaccurate news coverage about the election extremely or very often (60% vs. 37%). . .Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say they see inaccurate election news from the sources they turn to most often. . .Most Republicans (61%) say it is difficult to determine what is true and what is not, compared with 42% of Democrats who express this view. A majority of Democrats (58%) say they find it easy to distinguish truth from fiction when it comes to election news.)