📅 Oct 26, 2026
Asked to pick one candidate in nearly 500 midterm races, Grok backed Republicans 92% of the time and GPT backed Democrats 97%.
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Convovo, led by Cornell professor Tapan Parikh, tested 435 House, 35 Senate and 36 governor races, asking each model three times per race.
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Race by race, the models reached the same verdict in just 48 of 506 contests, even in districts that lean hard the other way.
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ChatGPT and Grok declined the question in their apps, so researchers used developer APIs with a prompt demanding one candidate.
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With search off in 30 races, GPT still picked Democrats 24 times, while Grok declined to pick 27 times. OpenAI says the test does not reflect the app experience; xAI did not comment in time.
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