Talking Points Memo Article RatingDeSantis Wants In On Another One Of Abbott's Performative Crusades Against Migrants
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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
|---|---|---|
| "States have every right to defend their sovereignty and we are pleased to increase our support to Texas as the Lone Star State works to stop the invasion across the border, DeSantis said in a statement Thursday." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "As my colleague Josh Kovensky explained, Texas officials' claims of defying the Supreme Court is, for the moment, all a lot of talk -- red meat served up on a platter for anti-government extremists, Trump supporters and the Republicans hoping to appeal to the two." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "(DeSantis, of course, was the one to actually pull the trigger and is currently licking his wounds after voters found him unlikable and robotic, and Trump easily demolished him.)" | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "Anti-Abortion Activists Hope Kacsmaryk Will Help Get Rid Of Plaed Parenthood" | Negative | -66% Liberal |
| "DeSantis has offered to send about 1,000 Florida National Guard officers depending on Texas's needs." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "DeSantis is one of a few Republican governors who have pledged their support for whatever Abbott's doing." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "DeSantis is one of a few Republican governors who have pledged their support for whatever Abbott's doing." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "States have every right to defend their sovereignty and we are pleased to increase our support to Texas as the Lone Star State works to stop the invasion across the border, DeSantis said in a statement Thursday." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "As my colleague Josh Kovensky explained, Texas officials' claims of defying the Supreme Court is, for the moment, all a lot of talk -- red meat served up on a platter for anti-government extremists, Trump supporters and the Republicans hoping to appeal to the two." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis aounced Thursday he would be sending troops from his state's National Guard and State Guard to assist Abbott as the Texas governor declares a migrant invasion at the border, part of a multi-pronged but largely performative challenge to the U.S. federal government." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis aounced Thursday he would be sending troops from his state's National Guard and State Guard to assist Abbott as the Texas governor declares a migrant invasion at the border, part of a multi-pronged but largely performative challenge to the U.S. federal government." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "The motivation for DeSantis, who is no longer ruing for president and who will be term-limited when his term is up in 2026, is just much less clear this time." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Abbott and other Texas Republicans have been making plenty of noise for the past week that gives the impression the state will defy a recent Supreme Court decision -- all without actually doing so." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletterHe's back, and ready to once again piggyback on one of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's big anti-immigrant spectacles to score some political points of his own." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "The ruling allowed the Biden administration to cut through border wire that Texas has put up along the border, blocking both migrants and federal Border Patrol from accessing part of it." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "For a good chunk of 2022 and early 2023, it appeared as though Abbott and DeSantis were in a standoff of their own, competing to see who could ruin their state the best in service of earning support from Trump voters as they both openly flirted with 2024 bids." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "For a good chunk of 2022 and early 2023, it appeared as though Abbott and DeSantis were in a standoff of their own, competing to see who could ruin their state the best in service of earning support from Trump voters as they both openly flirted with 2024 bids." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "The scheme was Abbott's brainchild initially -- until DeSantis swooped in and one-upped the Texas governor, collecting migrants from Texas and shipping them off, unaounced, to Martha's Vineyard." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The scheme was Abbott's brainchild initially -- until DeSantis swooped in and one-upped the Texas governor, collecting migrants from Texas and shipping them off, unaounced, to Martha's Vineyard." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has joined the rhetorical fight, arguing this week that state's have a right to defy SCOTUS if state officials have a different interpretation of the Constitution than the High Court." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "DeSantis reportedly did this without communicating his intentions with Abbott's office, a move that sparked some tension between the two otherwise logical bedfellows." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "DeSantis reportedly did this without communicating his intentions with Abbott's office, a move that sparked some tension between the two otherwise logical bedfellows." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "For GoodAlina Habba Gets Scorched By E. Jean Carroll's Lawyer-And Wilts -- David KurtzInside Kevin McCarthy's vengeance operation against the Republicans who fired him -- PoliticoAdvertising agency for OxyContin agrees to pay $350 million rather than face lawsuits -- PBS" | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "But this is not the first time DeSantis has seen Abbott making headlines for stunts that cruelly use migrants as props and has tried to get in on the action." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "But this is not the first time DeSantis has seen Abbott making headlines for stunts that cruelly use migrants as props and has tried to get in on the action." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "(DeSantis, of course, was the one to actually pull the trigger and is currently licking his wounds after voters found him unlikable and robotic, and Trump easily demolished him.)" | Negative | -24% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
50% : ""States have every right to defend their sovereignty and we are pleased to increase our support to Texas as the Lone Star State works to stop the invasion across the border," DeSantis said in a statement Thursday.50% : As my colleague Josh Kovensky explained, Texas officials' claims of defying the Supreme Court is, for the moment, all a lot of talk -- red meat served up on a platter for anti-government extremists, Trump supporters and the Republicans hoping to appeal to the two.
25% : (DeSantis, of course, was the one to actually pull the trigger and is currently licking his wounds after voters found him unlikable and robotic, and Trump easily demolished him.)
17% : Anti-Abortion Activists Hope Kacsmaryk Will Help Get Rid Of Planned Parenthood
*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.