DeSantis Is Trying to Out-Trump Trump. It's Not Working.

  • Bias Rating

    -60% Very Liberal

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -6% Center

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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

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"Trump wants to finish building his border wall; DeSantis wants to militarize the border to stop the invasion of immigrants, and even to blockade Mexican ports to stop delivery of chemicals used to make fentanyl."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Since DeSantis formally launched his campaign, Trump has maintained and even expanded his lead in virtually every poll of Republicans."
Positive
4% Conservative
"DeSantis has surrounded himself with veterans of the Cruz campaign."
Positive
4% Conservative
"And it clearly hasn't so far; Trump continues to lead his governor by 30 points in the national RealClearPolitics polling averages and leads in every early state poll as well."
Positive
2% Conservative
"There's nothing cheerful or swing-voter-pleasing about the message being conveyed by his super-PAC in its latest video:It may be rather difficult to soften this image of DeSantis if it doesn't work to outflank Trump."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Trump is a hero to the anti-abortion movement; DeSantis insisted on a draconian six-week abortion ban that Trump called too harsh."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Trump is a hero to the anti-abortion movement; DeSantis insisted on a draconian six-week abortion ban that Trump called too harsh."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Despite all of DeSantis's huffing and puffing, the Faith and Freedom Coalition event turned into a MAGA rally at which even the mention of Trump's name drew rapturous applause."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"So for the foreseeable future, DeSantis is going to campaign as not just steadier and more effective than Trump, but as the man who will leave the libs, as he likes to say, in the dustbin of history."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"But his early emphasis on such standard gubernatorial virtues as industrial recruitment and sound fiscal management has gradually given way to a presentation of DeSantis as a culture warrior who gazes at conservatism's enemies with a sort of unblinking reptilian stare, unlike Trump's many self-distractions and sideshow antics."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Trump appointed three hard-core conservatives to the U.S. Supreme Court; DeSantis would only appoint a justice as extreme as Clarence Thomas."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"It will be in the Iowa caucuses, where in the recent past the candidate successfully depicting himself as the true conservative in the field has generally won (e.g., Mike Huckabee in 2008, Rick Santorum in 2012, Ted Cruz in 2016)."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"It will be in the Iowa caucuses, where in the recent past the candidate successfully depicting himself as the true conservative in the field has generally won (e.g., Mike Huckabee in 2008, Rick Santorum in 2012, Ted Cruz in 2016)."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"And that is very likely reinforcing his decision to run much like Cruz did, relying on a hard-core conservative message and an expensive field effort focused on the likeliest -- which often means the most conservative -- voters."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"DeSantis may have successfully made himself over in Trump's image, but he's still overshadowed by the former president."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Trump wants to finish building his border wall; DeSantis wants to militarize the border to stop the invasion of immigrants, and even to blockade Mexican ports to stop delivery of chemicals used to make fentanyl."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"He's not looking that strong in New Hampshire, and in South Carolina he's fighting not just Trump but two Palmetto State rivals."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"The acid test for DeSantis won't come in any shared candidate event or even in the debates that begin in August (which Trump may or may not deign to attend)."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"But that's at odds with the electability argument that he's better positioned to beat Joe Biden."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"If that pattern continues, even as Trump faces indictment after indictment, Ron DeSantis may wind up in a narrow corner of the Republican Party into which he has painted himself very deliberately."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"If that pattern continues, even as Trump faces indictment after indictment, Ron DeSantis may wind up in a narrow corner of the Republican Party into which he has painted himself very deliberately."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Trump is generally seeking vengeance against his enemies in the federal government; DeSantis is promising accountability for alleged COVID tyrant Anthony Fauci specifically."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"There's a huge strategic dilemma at the heart of Ron DeSantis's 2024 presidential campaign."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"And indeed, it was the site of Trump's biggest defeat in 2016 (though of course he later denounced it as stolen)."
Negative
-36% Liberal

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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : Trump wants to finish building his border wall; DeSantis wants to militarize the border to stop the "invasion" of immigrants, and even to blockade Mexican ports to stop delivery of chemicals used to make fentanyl.

*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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