Delusional DeSantis Blames 2024 Woes on Media Sabotage

  • Bias Rating

    -26% Medium Liberal

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

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  • Politician Portrayal

    98% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Sentiments

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"He has gone hog wild not only with an abortion stance that may be kryptonite to his swing-voter appeal but on positions like his hostility to COVID-19 measures (including vaccines) and his demands for militarization of the southern border, which may appeal to the GOP base at the cost of alienating the general electorate."
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-10% Liberal
"As my colleague Jonathan Chait observed back in April, DeSantis is potentially a very vulnerable general-election candidate:He has gone on the record in the past supporting both privatization and benefit cuts for Social Security and Medicare, a position so deeply toxic that even most Republican voters recoil from it."
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-22% Liberal
"More recently, he signed a ban on abortion after six weeks, a period so restrictive it virtually amounts to a complete ban ..."
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-32% Liberal
"DeSantis trails Biden by 1.5 percent."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Yes, DeSantis would be able to regain some of the orthodox Republican voters repelled by Trump's personal style."
Positive
6% Conservative
"But to the extent that DeSantis's route to the nomination involves capturing the heart of Trump's base of support, the odds are very high that by the time Republicans (likely) nominate one of them, their differences would be less significant than ever before."
Positive
6% Conservative
"According to the RealClearPolitics polling averages, trial heats show Trump trailing Joe Biden by 0.2 percent (43.8 percent to 43.6 percent)."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"But he would forfeit not only some of the Trump cultists whose only coection to Republican politicians is a personal attachment to the 45th president but also some of the working-class voters Trump attracted by discarding some of his party's unpopular issue baggage."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"But he would forfeit not only some of the Trump cultists whose only coection to Republican politicians is a personal attachment to the 45th president but also some of the working-class voters Trump attracted by discarding some of his party's unpopular issue baggage."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"If he keeps pursuing this strategy while chasing Trump from far behind, you have to figure that by the time the deal goes down in 2024, the DeSantis who won an easy reelection in Florida in 2022 may be all but unrecognizable to those who voted for him mostly because the state's economy was doing well."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"It's a separate question, of course, as to whether Democrats would prefer dealing with an actually inaugurated Trump or DeSantis."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"So to know him is not necessarily to love him; more exposure as the 2024 race heats up may not improve his standing against Biden."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"I think it's pretty clear that the media does not want me to be their candidate, DeSantis recently told Fox News when asked how he plans to overcome Trump's lead."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Perhaps DeSantis backers would argue that the governor isn't kicking Biden's ass just yet because his sterling virtues aren't as well known as they will be after he runs a couple of hundred million dollars worth of ads."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Since April, DeSantis has doubled down on trying to run to Trump's right."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"But you don't just have to speculate about how offensive a crazed MAGA monster out-Trumping Trump may be to swing voters down the road."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"But a look at DeSantis's favorability ratio (better than Trump's or Biden's but still underwater) suggests that may not be true either."
Positive
2% Conservative
"But a look at DeSantis's favorability ratio (better than Trump's or Biden's but still underwater) suggests that may not be true either."
Positive
2% Conservative
"But rather than blaming Donald Trump for his recent 2024 campaign troubles -- or even taking some responsibility for his bungled start -- Florida governor Ron DeSantis keeps making the cringeworthy claim that his campaign is actually going gangbusters but is being artificially downgraded by liberal scribes who fear him."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"But rather than blaming Donald Trump for his recent 2024 campaign troubles -- or even taking some responsibility for his bungled start -- Florida governor Ron DeSantis keeps making the cringeworthy claim that his campaign is actually going gangbusters but is being artificially downgraded by liberal scribes who fear him."
Negative
-46% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : He has gone hog wild not only with an abortion stance that may be kryptonite to his swing-voter appeal but on positions like his hostility to COVID-19 measures (including vaccines) and his demands for militarization of the southern border, which may appeal to the GOP base at the cost of alienating the general electorate.
39% : As my colleague Jonathan Chait observed back in April, DeSantis is potentially a very vulnerable general-election candidate:He has gone on the record in the past supporting both privatization and benefit cuts for Social Security and Medicare, a position so deeply toxic that even most Republican voters recoil from it.
34% : More recently, he signed a ban on abortion after six weeks, a period so restrictive it virtually amounts to a complete ban ...

*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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