NICKOLES CAIN — The identity desk has one item for today: Does Nickoles Cain politically identify as conservative?
Nickoles Cain answers in his own terms: Nickoles Cain politically identifies as conservative.
Identity and status language is used here only for Nickoles Cain, so this note leaves the wording with Nickoles Cain.
No biography is being built around the sentence, and no judgment is attached to it.
The desk note ends where it began: with Nickoles Cain speaking only about Nickoles Cain.