Biden pledges billions to rebuild cities 'torn apart' by highways decades ago

Mar 13, 2024 View Original Article
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    -8% Center

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    32% Negative

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"Related: Biden slightly behind Trump but voters' views of economy improve, poll showsBiden and Trump unofficially clinched their parties' respective nominations on Tuesday night after more primary wins, and expect to be officially anointed at their party conventions this summer."
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32% Conservative
"He added: These highways actually tore them apart ... along with redlining, they discoected entire communities from opportunities, sometimes, in an effort to reinforce segregation."
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10% Conservative
"Donald Trump flipped all three states to win the White House in 2016, but Biden took them back four years ago and almost certainly needs to hold them if he is to secure a second term."
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2% Conservative
"The rare presidential election rematch, the first since 1956, comes while Trump is due in court later this month for the first-ever criminal trial of a former US president, with more to come as he faces 91 criminal charges across four cases at federal and state levels."
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-48% Liberal
"Related: Biden slightly behind Trump but voters' views of economy improve, poll showsBiden and Trump unofficially clinched their parties' respective nominations on Tuesday night after more primary wins, and expect to be officially anointed at their party conventions this summer."
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6% Conservative
"Related: Biden slightly behind Trump but voters' views of economy improve, poll showsBiden and Trump unofficially clinched their parties' respective nominations on Tuesday night after more primary wins, and expect to be officially anointed at their party conventions this summer."
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6% Conservative
"Related: Biden slightly behind Trump but voters' views of economy improve, poll showsBiden and Trump unofficially clinched their parties' respective nominations on Tuesday night after more primary wins, and expect to be officially anointed at their party conventions this summer."
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6% Conservative
"Related: Biden slightly behind Trump but voters' views of economy improve, poll showsBiden and Trump unofficially clinched their parties' respective nominations on Tuesday night after more primary wins, and expect to be officially anointed at their party conventions this summer."
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6% Conservative
"Biden is striving to make an impact on the campaign trail in a number of swing states this week after his fiery State of the Union speech last week."
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8% Conservative
"Biden aounced a $36.6m federal grant on his Milwaukee visit as part of the administration's infrastructure legislation, to upgrade sidewalks and create cycle lanes, greater access to mass transit and more greenery in the South 6th Street area of Bronzeville, a historic majority African American neighborhood."
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8% Conservative
"Biden said: The story of Bronzeville here in Milwaukee is one we see all across the country."
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4% Conservative
"Donald Trump flipped all three states to win the White House in 2016, but Biden took them back four years ago and almost certainly needs to hold them if he is to secure a second term."
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-2% Liberal
"Donald Trump flipped all three states to win the White House in 2016, but Biden took them back four years ago and almost certainly needs to hold them if he is to secure a second term."
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-2% Liberal
"On Wednesday, the White House declared that $3.3bn in federal funding is being allocated in more than 40 states, originating from the Biden administration's 2021 infrastructure legislation, to help areas divided by transportation infrastructure decades ago and [that] have long been overlooked."
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-2% Liberal
"He has plaed trips to North Carolina and other battleground states in the coming weeks, as he, the vice-president Kamala Harris and cabinet members hit the campaign trail and crank up the long presidential election season."
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-4% Liberal
"Biden pledges billions to rebuild cities 'torn apart' by highways decades agoMaya Yang and Joaa Walters in New York and agencyMarch 14, 2024 at 12:00 AMJoe Biden hailed the begiing of $3.3bn in infrastructure spending on US projects on Wednesday to right historic wrongs with efforts to recoect city neighborhoods riven by interstate highways that plowed with particular impunity through many Black, brown, Asian American and Hispanic communities decades ago."
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-6% Liberal
"Biden said the construction of interstate highways there led to the demolition of roughly 17,000 homes and 1,000 businesses, disproportionately impacting Black and poor neighborhoods in the 1960s, with a losses of prosperity and opportunities that still reverberate today.Related: Could the US highways that split communities on racial lines finally fall?He pledged to right historic wrongs and, in the process, deliver environmental justice to disadvantaged neighborhoods."
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-6% Liberal
"Democratic election campaigns in Wisconsin are typically run from the state capital, Madison, whereas the Biden re-election campaign has picked Milwaukee, the more industrial and diverse city on Lake Michigan, where 40"
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-8% Liberal
"He travels to Michigan on Thursday, part of the blue wall, along with Pesylvania, where Biden was born and has made more campaign trips than any other state."
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-8% Liberal
"Biden also took a jab directly at Trump's conduct in dealing with the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, when he was president."
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6% Conservative
"Biden also took a jab directly at Trump's conduct in dealing with the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, when he was president."
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6% Conservative
"The rare presidential election rematch, the first since 1956, comes while Trump is due in court later this month for the first-ever criminal trial of a former US president, with more to come as he faces 91 criminal charges across four cases at federal and state levels."
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-26% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Related: Biden slightly behind Trump but voters' views of economy improve, poll showsBiden and Trump unofficially clinched their parties' respective nominations on Tuesday night after more primary wins, and expect to be officially anointed at their party conventions this summer.
55% : "He added: "These highways actually tore them apart ... along with redlining, they disconnected entire communities from opportunities, sometimes, in an effort to reinforce segregation.
51% : Donald Trump flipped all three states to win the White House in 2016, but Biden took them back four years ago and almost certainly needs to hold them if he is to secure a second term.
26% : The rare presidential election rematch, the first since 1956, comes while Trump is due in court later this month for the first-ever criminal trial of a former US president, with more to come as he faces 91 criminal charges across four cases at federal and state levels.

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