Finley: In also-ran debate, Haley comes out on top

Aug 24, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -2% Center

  • Reliability

    45% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    52% Very Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    88% Negative

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.

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  •   Conservative
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"Democrats will assure abortion is the motivating issue in 2024, and again Haley came out on top on that issue, speaking to the constituency Republicans need to win back -- women."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Former Vice President Mike Pence pounced on that, declaring Republicans must put principle on abortion ahead of wiing elections."
Negative
-62% Liberal
"For a couple of hours Wednesday night, it was nice to pretend the Republican Party is ready to engage in a competitive primary season that step-by-step wiows a reasonably impressive field of candidates to a single standard-bearer who can put an end to the Joe Biden presidency."
Positive
22% Conservative
"On the scale of presidential gravitas, Haley scored the highest among the eight debaters."
Positive
22% Conservative
"(Trump, meanwhile, was on X saying of Jan. 6, People in that crowd said it was the most beautiful day they experienced, and lending credibility to the idea of a coming civil war.)"
Positive
22% Conservative
"Haley, Trump's former U.N. ambassador, was the night's clear wier."
Positive
18% Conservative
"Haley, Trump's former U.N. ambassador, was the night's clear wier."
Positive
18% Conservative
"North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, who signed a heartbeat bill into law, declared his state the most pro-life in the country."
Positive
16% Conservative
"But it was therapeutic to live briefly in a make-believe world in which the Republican Party had moved beyond Trump."
Positive
10% Conservative
"More: EV batteries, China target of Republicans at first presidential debateMore: Vivek Ramaswamy takes center stage, plus other key moments from first Republican debateNothing happened on the debate stage in Milwaukee to change the reality that the GOP race is still all about Trump."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"For nearly an hour, Donald Trump's name was barely mentioned."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"However, a check of X, formerly known as Twitter, where a recorded interview of Trump by podcaster Tucker Carlson, airing simultaneously with the debate on Carlson's former Fox Network, burst the bubble."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"And who knows, there's a possibility Republican voters will come to the realization that, as former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said, Trump is the most disliked politician in America."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Pence tried to speak to those Republicans who keep saying they like Trump's policies, but not his behavior, touting the Trump-Pence agenda."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis did nothing to reverse his slide."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"It was disappointing to watch South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott struggle to find a lane."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"Democrats will assure abortion is the motivating issue in 2024, and again Haley came out on top on that issue, speaking to the constituency Republicans need to win back -- women."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"On Trump, the candidates were inexcusably timid, except for Christie and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, both of whom were unequivocal in calling out the former president's moral and ethical shortcomings."
Negative
-40% Liberal
"On Trump, the candidates were inexcusably timid, except for Christie and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, both of whom were unequivocal in calling out the former president's moral and ethical shortcomings."
Negative
-40% Liberal
"Former Vice President Mike Pence pounced on that, declaring Republicans must put principle on abortion ahead of wiing elections."
Negative
-40% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

31% :Democrats will assure abortion is the motivating issue in 2024, and again Haley came out on top on that issue, speaking to the constituency Republicans need to win back -- women.
19% : Former Vice President Mike Pence pounced on that, declaring Republicans must put principle on abortion ahead of winning elections.

*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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