Column: Focus of GOP leaders drifts into dysfunctional territory

Jan 12, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -10% Center

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    92% Extremely Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

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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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

-4% Negative

  •   Liberal
  •   Conservative
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"Embracing Donald Trump in 2016 cost Republicans statewide and countywide in 2018."
Positive
6% Conservative
"The House GOP seeks an unprecedented action of impeaching a member of a president's Cabinet, alleging Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is not upholding immigration laws."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Especially if Trump leads the ticket come November."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"His dwindling number of opponents, meanwhile, seem to loathe each other instead of Trump."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"Meanwhile the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives continues to ignore the issues Americans want addressed and worry about: Reproductive rights, the porous Southern Border, the economy, assault weapons, national security, keeping Social Security and Medicare financially sound, raising the nation's retirement age, climate change, the war in Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war and China's growing global hegemony."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"Trump is facing state and federal lawsuits over his actions trying to overturn the 2020 election --The Steal as he maintains."
Negative
-52% Liberal
"Trump certainly is compiling an enemies list made up of those who he believes have slighted him, including members of the media."
Negative
-66% Liberal
"Both Haley and DeSantis seem to enjoy throwing barbs at each other instead of pointing to the many faults of Donald Trump, who has more than California's earthquake-prone landscape."
Negative
-96% Liberal
"Around this time next year, President Joe Biden will be readying his second inauguration speech or our 47th president will be close to moving into the White House."
Positive
18% Conservative
"The party's slender majority in the U.S. House is fragile at best since a far right-wing coup to oust Kevin McCarthy, the previous GOP speaker."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Just as Democrats did in the early years of Trump's presidency."
Positive
2% Conservative
"The House GOP seeks an unprecedented action of impeaching a member of a president's Cabinet, alleging Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is not upholding immigration laws."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Nixon did the same."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"One like Republican Lowell Weicker, a progressive Republican U.S. senator and Coecticut governor, who died last year at age 93."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Especially if Trump leads the ticket come November."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Front-ruer Trump has followed a Nixonian path set before him."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Former President Donald Trump maintains huge polling leads against his chief rivals, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and even Biden."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Former President Donald Trump maintains huge polling leads against his chief rivals, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and even Biden."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Former President Donald Trump maintains huge polling leads against his chief rivals, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and even Biden."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Former President Donald Trump maintains huge polling leads against his chief rivals, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and even Biden."
Positive
0% Conservative
"They also want to impeach President Biden because they seem not to like his policies and politics."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Nixon, who resigned the office rather than be impeached, also was behind commission of illegal acts by his ier-circle accomplices who ended up in jail."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"Besides Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, where are those Republicans in 2024 willing to stand like Lowell Weicker for a decent and open GOP?"
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Besides Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, where are those Republicans in 2024 willing to stand like Lowell Weicker for a decent and open GOP?"
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Besides Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, where are those Republicans in 2024 willing to stand like Lowell Weicker for a decent and open GOP?"
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Fifty years ago, at the height of the Watergate scandal of President Richard Nixon, it was Weicker who stood up for what's right and for what Americans expect of their elected officials."
Negative
-50% Liberal
"Fifty years ago, at the height of the Watergate scandal of President Richard Nixon, it was Weicker who stood up for what's right and for what Americans expect of their elected officials."
Negative
-50% Liberal
"Trump is facing state and federal lawsuits over his actions trying to overturn the 2020 election --The Steal as he maintains."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Republicans do not go ahead and threaten; Republicans do not go ahead and commit illegal acts; and, God knows, Republicans don't view their fellow Americans as enemies to be harassed, Weicker said, according to what was mined from testimony at congressional hearings on President Nixon's behavior in office."
Negative
-54% Liberal
"Republicans do not go ahead and threaten; Republicans do not go ahead and commit illegal acts; and, God knows, Republicans don't view their fellow Americans as enemies to be harassed, Weicker said, according to what was mined from testimony at congressional hearings on President Nixon's behavior in office."
Negative
-54% Liberal
"Trump certainly is compiling an enemies list made up of those who he believes have slighted him, including members of the media."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"In a Des Moines debate prior to the Iowa caucuses, DeSantis labeled Haley another mealy-mouthed politician Haley, in turn, said: You can't trust what Ron's saying."
Negative
-72% Liberal
"In a Des Moines debate prior to the Iowa caucuses, DeSantis labeled Haley another mealy-mouthed politician Haley, in turn, said: You can't trust what Ron's saying."
Negative
-72% Liberal
"In a Des Moines debate prior to the Iowa caucuses, DeSantis labeled Haley another mealy-mouthed politician Haley, in turn, said: You can't trust what Ron's saying."
Negative
-72% Liberal
"In a Des Moines debate prior to the Iowa caucuses, DeSantis labeled Haley another mealy-mouthed politician Haley, in turn, said: You can't trust what Ron's saying."
Negative
-72% Liberal
"Both Haley and DeSantis seem to enjoy throwing barbs at each other instead of pointing to the many faults of Donald Trump, who has more than California's earthquake-prone landscape."
Negative
-88% Liberal
"Both Haley and DeSantis seem to enjoy throwing barbs at each other instead of pointing to the many faults of Donald Trump, who has more than California's earthquake-prone landscape."
Negative
-88% Liberal
"Both Haley and DeSantis seem to enjoy throwing barbs at each other instead of pointing to the many faults of Donald Trump, who has more than California's earthquake-prone landscape."
Negative
-88% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Embracing Donald Trump in 2016 cost Republicans statewide and countywide in 2018.
49% : The House GOP seeks an unprecedented action of impeaching a member of a president's Cabinet, alleging Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is not upholding immigration laws.
40% : Especially if Trump leads the ticket come November.
34% : His dwindling number of opponents, meanwhile, seem to loathe each other instead of Trump.
33% : Meanwhile the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives continues to ignore the issues Americans want addressed and worry about: Reproductive rights, the porous Southern Border, the economy, assault weapons, national security, keeping Social Security and Medicare financially sound, raising the nation's retirement age, climate change, the war in Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war and China's growing global hegemony.
24% : Trump is facing state and federal lawsuits over his actions trying to overturn the 2020 election --"The Steal" as he maintains.
17% : Trump certainly is compiling an enemies list made up of those who he believes have slighted him, including members of the media.
2% : Both Haley and DeSantis seem to enjoy throwing barbs at each other instead of pointing to the many faults of Donald Trump, who has more than California's earthquake-prone landscape.

*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.

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