The Western Journal Article RatingBiden Makes Telling Move with Menthol Cigarette Ban as Black Voter Support Crumbles
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| "Trump garnered only 8 percent of the black vote in 2020 and that was up from 6 percent in 2016, according to the Pew Research Center." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "A whopping 92 percent of black voters supported Biden in 2020." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "According to exit polls, Biden won the election with 87 percent of the black vote." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Trump garnered only 8 percent of the black vote in 2020 and that was up from 6 percent in 2016, according to the Pew Research Center." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "In a news release about the legal action against the administration, the organization's president, Dr. Yolanda Lawson, said the Biden White House is overdue in the move to protect blacks' health." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "By January, a USA Today/Suffolk University poll showed Biden with only 63 percent of black voters." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "In November, a New York Times and Siena College poll found that in six of the most important battleground states -- Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pesylvania, and Wisconsin -- 22 percent of black voters indicated they would vote for former President Donald Trump in the upcoming election." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "The fog of smoke is growing thicker as the Biden camp searches for a way out of his declining support among black voters." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "If Biden wins, the ban can then go into place." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Biden would be in his final term." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Biden definitely doesn't want to touch this before the election, he said." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Califf apparently senses Biden's support for the proposal is faltering because his political cronies are worried that baing menthol cigarettes could cut into his already waning approval among black voters." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "It's not looking so rosy for Biden in 2024." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "So what's President Joe You Ain't Black Biden to do?" | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Democratic strategist TJ Rooney told the Washington Examiner that the Biden White House was making the right move to delay the ban." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "In a move to prevent the Biden White House from alienating even more black voters, a proposal to ban menthol cigarettes may be delayed until after the 2024 election, according to the Washington Examiner." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Any voters, black or otherwise, who have already grown skeptical of the Biden gang, might see the baing of their smokes as the tree that broke the economically overburdened camel's back." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "It's only gotten worse for Old Joe." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Biden has been facing pressure to approve the ban on menthol cigarettes." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "But the White House -- which is susceptible to fits of paranoia as well as pandering -- worries that enacting the ban might further push black voters away from Biden." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "The Biden camp doesn't give a hoot about the health of black people or anybody else.Democrats continue to think that black voters are stupid enough to be manipulated into doing whatever the Democratic Party wants them to do." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
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46% : Trump garnered only 8 percent of the black vote in 2020 and that was up from 6 percent in 2016, according to the Pew Research Center.*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.