{"id":1406661,"date":"2022-03-29T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406661"},"modified":"2022-03-29T08:00:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T12:00:36","slug":"5-pennsylvania-gop-senate-candidates-refuse-philadelphia-inquirers-grossly-biased-survey-torch-paper-as-a-biased-rag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-pennsylvania-gop-senate-candidates-refuse-philadelphia-inquirers-grossly-biased-survey-torch-paper-as-a-biased-rag\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Pennsylvania GOP Senate Candidates Refuse Philadelphia Inquirer\u2019s Grossly Biased Survey, Torch Paper As A \u2018Biased\u2019 \u2018Rag\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F5-pennsylvania-gop-senate-candidates-refuse-philadelphia-inquirers-grossly-biased-survey-torch-paper-as-a-biased-rag%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1406661&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1186369723_fda8df5338_k-e1648511786697.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>At least five of Pennsylvania\u2019s seven Republicans seeking the GOP Senate nomination refused to submit answers to the Philadelphia Inquirer\u2019s multiple-choice questionnaire sent to candidates ahead of the paper\u2019s formal endorsement process with a Monday deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, obtained by The Federalist from Philadelphia Attorney George Bochetto\u2019s campaign, asked candidates questions designed to smear candidates either as conspiracy theorists or Republican heretics by offering binary choices on complicated topics. <\/p>\n<p>The first in a 25-question multiple-choice section asks candidates, \u201cWho won the 2020 presidential election,\u201d with either \u201cJoe Biden\u201d or \u201cDonald Trump\u201d presented as the only two answers and no room to discuss the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/29\/7-insane-things-i-just-learned-about-how-u-s-elections-are-rigged\/\">complexities of the contest<\/a> with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2021\/01\/28\/turnout-soared-in-2020-as-nearly-two-thirds-of-eligible-u-s-voters-cast-ballots-for-president\/\"> record-level turnout in the <\/a>form of mail-in voting monopolized by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/mollie-hemingway-mark-zuckerberg-election-facebook-tucker-carlson\">left-wing private actors<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The survey\u2019s second multiple-choice question asked, \u201cWas the riot inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6 \u2018legitimate political discourse,&#8217;\u201d with candidates presented options to answer \u201cyes\u201d or no.\u201d The question follows the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/12\/leftist-media-falsely-frames-rncs-defense-of-jan-6-free-speech-as-a-defense-of-rioting\/\">media twisting<\/a> the Republican National Committee\u2019s censure of two GOP representatives on the Democrats\u2019 Jan. 6 Committee to extend its reference of protestors engaged in \u201clegitimate political discourse\u201d to those who launched an assault on the Capitol building.<\/p>\n<p>After filling out the Inquirer\u2019s first seven open-ended questions, Bochetto wrote in a statement to the paper shared with The Federalist he would refuse \u201cto be trapped by ideologically worded questions to which I am denied the ability to fully respond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs one of the leading information platforms in Pennsylvania,\u201d Bochetto wrote, \u201cI very much hope you will reconsider the policy of denying candidates for the United States Senate the opportunity to be considered for endorsement if they are unwilling to submit to the gamesmanship being played with these multiple-choice questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other candidates outright refused to submit answers to the Pennsylvania paper\u2019s questionnaire at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not submit a response,\u201d wrote the press team for David McCormick, a former hedge fund manager who the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/senate\/pa\/pennsylvania_senate_republican_primary-7485.html\">polls show<\/a> is leading the race, in an email to The Federalist. <\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for former President Donald Trump\u2019s ambassador to Denmark, Carla Sands, told The Federalist the Philadelphia Inquirer\u2019s Senate Endorsement Questionnaire \u201cis both predictable and laughable at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Inquirer\u2019s loaded questions are a biased attempt to harm Republican candidates at the behest of its left-wing owners and editors,\u201d the campaign wrote to The Federalist. \u201cAmbassador Carla Sands will not be participating in this biased process, nor does she have any desire whatsoever, to receive the endorsement of a left-leaning, slowly-dying newspaper deeply out of touch with the people of Pennsylvania.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Sean Gale also labeled the Inquirer \u201ca left-wing, liberal rag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want their endorsement and I didn\u2019t even look at their undoubtedly biased questionnaire before I trashed it,\u201d Gale told The Federalist. <\/p>\n<p>Kathy Barnette, a veteran, author, and conservative political commentator, also told The Federalist she rejected the Inquirer\u2019s survey over its \u201cpolitically driven\u201d questions.<\/p>\n<p>Barnette complained the paper was engaged in a double-standard seeking to smear Republicans as enemies of the state after Democrats chanted for years during Trump\u2019s time in office the commander-in-chief was \u201cnot my president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t remember the liberal media using that once as a litmus test to marginalize people, to label people \u2018insurrectionist\u2019 during Trump\u2019s term in office when it was very prominent people saying \u2018not my president\u2019 in regards to President Trump,\u201d Barnette said. \u201cNow all of a sudden [it] is the first question in their multiple choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No representatives for daytime television star Dr. Mehmet Oz or Montgomery County real estate developer Jeff Bartos, who are also candidates in the race, responded to The Federalist\u2019s inquiries. The Philadelphia Inquirer also did not respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least five of Pennsylvania\u2019s seven Republicans seeking the GOP Senate nomination refused to submit answers to the Philadelphia Inquirer\u2019s multiple-choice questionnaire sent to candidates ahead of the paper\u2019s formal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}