WPTV Article RatingDeSantis pushes 'use of force,' ending 'birth tourism' to secure southern border
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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 secured record funding for border security, Jean-Pierre said." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "It's a strategy we are seeing with other policies as well, including abortion, COVID responses, and government spending, Foreman said." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "If somebody were breaking into your house to do something bad, you would respond with force -- yet why don't we do that at the southern border, DeSantis said at a news conference later in the day." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Political communications expert Josh Scacco at the University of South Florida said border security had become a flagship issue for the GOP this cycle." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "He also does not have direct experience with the southern border, though deals with a different set of immigration-related issues in Florida." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "If the cartels are cutting through the border wall, trying to run product into this country, they're going to end up stone-cold dead as a result of that bad decision." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "Trump touted his work on the border wall, promised to declare war and defeat the cartels, plus what sounded like mass deportations if reelected." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "For example, DeSantis said he will finish the job of building a border wall while subtly saying that migration across the southern border increased under Trump and then shouting that the crisis has exploded under Biden." | Negative | -54% Liberal |
| "Gov. Ron DeSantis pledged an emergency declaration and use of force, if necessary while speaking in Texas." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Under my leadership, we had the most secure border in U.S. history, by far, said Trump." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "The Biden administration touched on the immigration debate Monday, as well." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "I think it's another example of how the Republican-dominated Legislature has gone too far.Even so, political experts think DeSantis' real goals Monday were to get publicity and plant a flag on immigration." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "The former president's spokesman took to Twitter, calling DeSantis the Fisher Price version of Trump." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Ron DeSantis has repeatedly used young children and families as pawns in his shallow political stunts to pander to the MAGA base, Ammar Moussa, a DNC spokesperson, said." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "The Biden press official went on to say the question is to, not us, but it is to congressional Republicans and what they have done to make this situation even more difficult..." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "The Trump campaign was more blunt in its attack on DeSantis." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during a press briefing said she was bound by the Hatch Act and not able to weigh in on campaign matters directly, but she defended President Joe Biden's immigration policy to date." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "This latest plan is more of the same -- political gimmicks that are merely an echo of the same cruel and callous policies of the Trump administration that broke our immigration system." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "When I take the oath of office on January 20th, 2025, we will immediately begin the process of fully securing the border and removing the illegal aliens Joe Biden has unlawfully allowed to break into our country." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Professor Sean Foreman, a politics expert with Barry University, said DeSantis was also using the topic to dunk on the Biden administration while attempting to differentiate himself from the GOP frontruer, former President Donald Trump." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Professor Sean Foreman, a politics expert with Barry University, said DeSantis was also using the topic to dunk on the Biden administration while attempting to differentiate himself from the GOP frontruer, former President Donald Trump." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Trump touted his work on the border wall, promised to declare war and defeat the cartels, plus what sounded like mass deportations if reelected." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "For example, DeSantis said he will finish the job of building a border wall while subtly saying that migration across the southern border increased under Trump and then shouting that the crisis has exploded under Biden." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "For example, DeSantis said he will finish the job of building a border wall while subtly saying that migration across the southern border increased under Trump and then shouting that the crisis has exploded under Biden." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "DeSantis is attacking Biden head-on while also making jabs at Trump on the margins." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "DeSantis is attacking Biden head-on while also making jabs at Trump on the margins." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
56% : "He has secured record funding for border security," Jean-Pierre said.54% : "It's a strategy we are seeing with other policies as well, including abortion, COVID responses, and government spending," Foreman said.
43% : "If somebody were breaking into your house to do something bad, you would respond with force -- yet why don't we do that at the southern border," DeSantis said at a news conference later in the day.
40% : Political communications expert Josh Scacco at the University of South Florida said border security had become a flagship issue for the GOP this cycle.
40% : "He also does not have direct experience with the southern border, though deals with a different set of immigration-related issues in Florida."
31% : "If the cartels are cutting through the border wall, trying to run product into this country, they're going to end up stone-cold dead as a result of that bad decision."
26% : Trump touted his work on the border wall, promised to "declare war and defeat the cartels," plus what sounded like mass deportations if reelected.
23% : For example, DeSantis said he will finish the job of building a border wall while subtly saying that migration across the southern border increased under Trump and then shouting that the crisis has exploded under Biden."
*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.