GOP House victory looks likely, but close races remain in play

  • Bias Rating

    -6% Center

  • Reliability

    N/AN/A

  • Policy Leaning

    8% Center

  • 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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

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  •   Conservative
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"Republican candidates pledged on the campaign trail to cut taxes and tighten border security."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"Republicans will take control of House committees, giving them the ability to shape legislation and launch probes of Mr. Biden, his family, and his administration."
Positive
14% Conservative
"Nearly a week after the midterm elections, Republicans were closing in on the majority, giving conservatives leverage to blunt Mr. Biden's agenda and spur a flurry of investigations."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Democrats have already won control of the Senate, securing 50 seats with a runoff in Georgia next month that could give President Joe Biden's party an additional seat."
Positive
8% Conservative
"East of Los Angeles, Republican Rep. Ken Calvert notched a win over Democrat Will Rollins."
Positive
6% Conservative
"That's far short of the sweeping victory Republicans predicted going into this year's midterm elections, when the party hoped to reset the agenda on Capitol Hill by capitalizing on economic challenges and Mr. Biden's lagging popularity."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Mr. Biden said the midterms show voters want Democrats and Republicans to find ways to cooperate and govern in a bipartisan maer, but also noted that Republicans didn't achieve the electoral surge they'd been betting on."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"If elected to succeed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the top post, Mr. McCarthy would lead what will likely be a rowdy conference of House Republicans, most of whom are aligned with Mr. Trump's bare-knuckle brand of politics."
Positive
12% Conservative
"If elected to succeed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the top post, Mr. McCarthy would lead what will likely be a rowdy conference of House Republicans, most of whom are aligned with Mr. Trump's bare-knuckle brand of politics."
Positive
12% Conservative
"If elected to succeed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the top post, Mr. McCarthy would lead what will likely be a rowdy conference of House Republicans, most of whom are aligned with Mr. Trump's bare-knuckle brand of politics."
Positive
12% Conservative
"As a senator and then vice president, Mr. Biden spent a career crafting legislative compromises with Republicans."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"With 80"
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Some of the most conservative lawmakers have raised the prospect of impeaching Mr. Biden, though that will be much harder for the party to accomplish with a tight majority."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"The results could complicate House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy's plans to become speaker as some conservative members have questioned whether to back him or have imposed conditions for their support."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"In the first national election since the Jan. 6 insurrection, one Republican who was outside the Capitol on the day of the mob attack, Derrick Van Orden, won a House seat."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"The tightest remaining contest in the state emerged in the Central Valley, where Democrat Adam Gray seized a tissue-thin lead after Republican John Duarte jumped ahead by 84 votes in a fight for an open seat in District 13."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Southeast of Los Angeles, Republican Rep. Michelle Steel defeated Democrat Jay Chen in a district that was specifically drawn to give Asian Americans, who comprise the largest group in the district, a stronger voice on Capitol Hill."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Many Republicans in the incoming Congress rejected the results of the 2020 presidential election, even though claims of widespread fraud were refuted by courts, elections officials, and Mr. Trump's own attorney general."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Some in the GOP have blamed Donald Trump for the worse-than-expected outcome."
Negative
-48% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

34% :Republican candidates pledged on the campaign trail to cut taxes and tighten border security.

*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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