Biden's words on voting rights meet call to action after 1/6

Jan 06, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    24% Somewhat Conservative

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  • Policy Leaning

    -16% Somewhat Liberal

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Bias Score Analysis

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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"He has directed federal law enforcement to shore up security at national institutions and improve communication systems and procedures that were in part to blame for U.S. Capitol Police being left overwhelmed for hours during the mob assault."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Welch was at the Capitol on Jan. 6, and the violence that day is etched in his memory."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Jan. 6 has had a material impact on the view of the United States from the rest of the world, I believe from allies and adversaries alike, Sullivan said recently at the Council on Foreign Relations."
Positive
8% Conservative
"After Biden's speech in South Carolina, Senate Democrats renewed their push to pass voting rights legislation early in 2022."
Positive
6% Conservative
"For Biden, who served four decades in the Senate, it was a remarkable concession and underscored the gravity of the threat."
Positive
4% Conservative
"In his recent commencement address at South Carolina State University, Biden's tone on the need for voting rights legislation took on added urgency."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"So Biden tailored his first-year domestic agenda to combating what he believed to be the root causes of the unease - the shaky economy and the pandemic's drag on it - essentially to prove that government can work effectively."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Rather, they say, the president believes the most effective way to combat Trump, election denialism and domestic extremism is to prove to the rest of the country - and to the world - that government can work."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Biden said."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"The House has approved far-reaching voting rights legislation, but Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia have been impediments, saying they oppose changing Senate rules to get around a GOP filibuster of the bill."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Biden's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, also has said that the riot at the Capitol has altered the view many countries have of the United States."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Biden's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, also has said that the riot at the Capitol has altered the view many countries have of the United States."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Instead, Trump exploited long-standing dissatisfaction with the nation's political, economic and social systems to build his coalition."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"This is part of a larger movement of voter suppression and why it's so necessary for Biden to speak out."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Baal said efforts to discredit election integrity not only galvanize Trump supporters, they also make other voters less likely to vote."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"The tension in Biden's approach reflects his balancing of the urgent needs of Americans to make progress on the highly visible issues of the pandemic and the economy and the less visible, but equally vital, issue of preserving trust in elections and government."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"It never has, Biden said last fall."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"People are taking sides as opposed to looking at what the institutional threats are to maintaining our democracy, said Democratic Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont, a candidate to replace Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, who aounced his retirement."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"People are taking sides as opposed to looking at what the institutional threats are to maintaining our democracy, said Democratic Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont, a candidate to replace Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, who aounced his retirement."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"In Biden's view, many of Trump's voters didn't wholly embrace Trumpism."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"In Biden's view, many of Trump's voters didn't wholly embrace Trumpism."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"White House officials insist Biden's relative reticence should not be interpreted as complacency with the growing movement to rewrite history surrounding the Jan. 6 riot."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Never, Biden said, adding, This new sinister combination of voter suppression and election subversion, it's un-American, it's undemocratic, and sadly, it is unprecedented since Reconstruction."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Manchin and Sinema have helped draft separate voting rights legislation, but it lacks enough Republican support to overcome the filibuster."
Negative
-30% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : He has directed federal law enforcement to shore up security at national institutions and improve communication systems and procedures that were in part to blame for U.S. Capitol Police being left overwhelmed for hours during the mob assault.

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