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Gone to the dogs: why has the 2024 US election featured so many disturbing animal tales?

Guardian
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63% Informative

Political treatment of animals in US politics has also taken a disturbing turn.

Kevin Roberts , the architect of Project 2025 , told colleagues he killed a neighbor's pit bull with a shovel.

Kristi Noem lost out on becoming Trump ’s running mate after recycling a two-decade-old story about shooting a hunting dog that didn’t hunt and had bitten members of her family.

RFK Jr revealed himself as architect of a decade-old caper to leave a dead bear cub in Central Park , staging it to look like a bike accident.

Trump has used dog-centric language as a political insult, including choked like a dog’, “barked like a.

dog”, sweated like.

a dog,” “lied like a. dog, or was “fired.

like a pet” or “cheated like a dogs’. “It’s ridiculous,’ said Sheinkopf .

VR Score

60

Informative language

55

Neutral language

21

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

43

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possibly offensive

Hate speech

possibly hateful

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not detected

Known propaganda techniques

detected

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short-lived

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