SCORECARD · CHRISTOPHER A. COONS accountability readout

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85/100
CRITICAL CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
69
Contradiction risk25%
95
Connection density20%
88
Donor influence10%
87
Fact density10%
73
Constituency deviation5%
17
Voting misalignment5%
0

Weighted composite, 0–100. Identical to the figure on the Congress monitor. Each bar is the component's normalised 0–100 contribution before weighting.

01

Silence on donor-funded topics 6

Topics where donors have documented interests but the official has no public statement on record. Silence is the absence of expected speech — not proof of intent.

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02

Vote-vs-platform contradictions 0

Roll-call votes that contradict the official's own stated platform commitments. Each links to the bill and the contradiction rationale.

No platform-contradicting votes among 441 votes on file. 2 aligned, 8 related.

03

Broken promises 0

Documented public commitments paired with the documented action that broke them. Each carries a primary-source citation for the violation.

No documented broken promises on file.

04

Documented contradictions 4

Stated-position-vs-revealed-conduct contradictions analysed against the official's commitments, scored by strength of the contradiction.

  • reversal SCORE 90
    Coons was the 'staunchest Democratic opponent of filibuster reform' in 2017, co-writing a letter to preserve it, but by 2020 was open to scrapping it and by 2026 admitted he would consider 'nuking' the filibuster.
  • reversal SCORE 90
    Coons voted to weaken the filibuster in 2013 but expressed regret in 2016, then reversed again in 2020 and 2026 by opening the door to eliminating it entirely. Breitbart characterized this as 'hypocrisy' and a 'temporary shield Democrats cling to while they're in the minority.'
  • reversal SCORE 90
    Coons demanded the Senate confirm Obama's Supreme Court nominee in 2016, tweeting '#WeNeedNine,' but in 2018 argued Republicans should not even consider Trump's nominee months before a midterm election. The Washington Free Beacon labeled this a 'flip-flop.'
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 60
    Coons voted for the 2018 bank deregulation bill but avoided directly answering questions after Silicon Valley Bank's collapse. The New Republic reported that 'Democrats who pushed for financial deregulation seem to have no regrets.'
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What this scorecard does and doesn't claim

Every figure above is a count of records the platform already holds, each click-through-able to its source. The scorecard adds no inference, no forecast, and no narrative — it aggregates what is documented.

A populated scorecard is not a finding of corruption. It documents the volume of stated-vs-revealed tension, donor-adjacent silence, and broken commitments on the public record for this official. Silence in particular is the absence of an expected statement; it can have innocent explanations and is never presented as proof. Read each item's source before drawing conclusions.

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