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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
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| "When you think of Tom Cotton, you probably think of the senator who wanted to use the military to bash Black Lives Matter protesters." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "While Hawley and Cruz put pandering and their presidential ambitions ahead of their country, Cotton put first things first." | Positive | 62% Conservative |
| "While Hawley and Cruz put pandering and their presidential ambitions ahead of their country, Cotton put first things first." | Positive | 62% Conservative |
| "While Hawley and Cruz put pandering and their presidential ambitions ahead of their country, Cotton put first things first." | Positive | 62% Conservative |
| "yes, Tom Cotton." | Positive | 36% Conservative |
| "It turns out, though, Cotton's motives were much nobler, as his timing was moved up to stop the movement to oppose certification from breaking through at a moment when that seemed eminently possible." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Neither Cotton nor McCoell rose to the occasion on that day." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Neither Cotton nor McCoell rose to the occasion on that day." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Together, they plotted to countermand Trump's bid to overturn the election and neutralize interest in objecting to Biden's victory that was developing in some quarters of the Republican conference." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Together, they plotted to countermand Trump's bid to overturn the election and neutralize interest in objecting to Biden's victory that was developing in some quarters of the Republican conference." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Cotton deserves credit for doing the right thing when America absolutely needed him to." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "It seems likely that Cotton's military background helped inform this decision." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "According to David Drucker's new book In Trump's Shadow: The Battle for 2024 and the Future of the GOP, we should include Cotton, usually thought of as a cartoonish villainous figure by the chattering classes, as a hero of liberal democracy." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "To the degree Trump's coup was viable, it was averted with the help of a lot of conservative judges and Republican politicians, such as Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and elections official Gabriel Sterling -- and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey -- and" | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "To the degree Trump's coup was viable, it was averted with the help of a lot of conservative judges and Republican politicians, such as Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and elections official Gabriel Sterling -- and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey -- and" | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Politico piece titled What I Learned at War, Cotton explained, As soldiers advance up the chain of command, we expect them to show moral courage, which can be even more difficult." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "With his Southern twang, authoritarian streak, and hawkish foreign policy, Cotton seems straight out of right-wing central casting." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "As Drucker explains, thanks to Cotton, the number of objectors never snowballed beyond Cruz and his compatriots, Hawley, Senator Kelly Loeffler, who had been ousted the day before in one of the Georgia runoffs, and Senator Rick Scott of Florida, an aspiring 2024 contender and the incoming chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "As Drucker explains, thanks to Cotton, the number of objectors never snowballed beyond Cruz and his compatriots, Hawley, Senator Kelly Loeffler, who had been ousted the day before in one of the Georgia runoffs, and Senator Rick Scott of Florida, an aspiring 2024 contender and the incoming chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "As Drucker explains, thanks to Cotton, the number of objectors never snowballed beyond Cruz and his compatriots, Hawley, Senator Kelly Loeffler, who had been ousted the day before in one of the Georgia runoffs, and Senator Rick Scott of Florida, an aspiring 2024 contender and the incoming chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "As Drucker explains, thanks to Cotton, the number of objectors never snowballed beyond Cruz and his compatriots, Hawley, Senator Kelly Loeffler, who had been ousted the day before in one of the Georgia runoffs, and Senator Rick Scott of Florida, an aspiring 2024 contender and the incoming chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "As Drucker explains, thanks to Cotton, the number of objectors never snowballed beyond Cruz and his compatriots, Hawley, Senator Kelly Loeffler, who had been ousted the day before in one of the Georgia runoffs, and Senator Rick Scott of Florida, an aspiring 2024 contender and the incoming chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Then, at the moment when it looked like there might be a critical mass of Republicans jumping on the bandwagon, Cotton aounced he would stand up against Trump's push and support certification." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Then, at the moment when it looked like there might be a critical mass of Republicans jumping on the bandwagon, Cotton aounced he would stand up against Trump's push and support certification." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz started a bidding war on on who could get the most credit for pledging to object to certification." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz started a bidding war on on who could get the most credit for pledging to object to certification." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "As Drucker writes, as the push for GOP Senators to vote against certification gained steam, Cotton, in league with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCoell of Kentucky, was maneuvering behind the scenes to derail the outgoing president's effort to remain in office, and marginalize those Republicans who were abetting him." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "As Drucker writes, as the push for GOP Senators to vote against certification gained steam, Cotton, in league with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCoell of Kentucky, was maneuvering behind the scenes to derail the outgoing president's effort to remain in office, and marginalize those Republicans who were abetting him." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Although this earned him an immediate rebuke from Trump, at the time, many of us assumed Cotton's actions were calculated, if counterintuitive." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Although this earned him an immediate rebuke from Trump, at the time, many of us assumed Cotton's actions were calculated, if counterintuitive." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Odds are that a frontal assault on Trump's power grab would have failed, rendering him politically impotent (if not unemployed)." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger voted for Trump and opposed his first impeachment, but emerged as heroes when the 2020 election was at stake." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger voted for Trump and opposed his first impeachment, but emerged as heroes when the 2020 election was at stake." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger voted for Trump and opposed his first impeachment, but emerged as heroes when the 2020 election was at stake." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Of course, Cotton is a crafty strategist as well as a committed constitutionalist" | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "And when you think of the 2020 presidential election, you probably think of Republicans being complicit with Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the election results." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "In the wake of his presidential defeat, the Georgia Senate losses, and the Jan. 6 insurrection (which led to his second impeachment), Republicans had the power to ensure Donald Trump could never again hold federal office." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Sens. John Thune and John Barrasso told Drucker that the whole thing would have gotten completely out of hand if not for the stand taken by Cotton." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Sens. John Thune and John Barrasso told Drucker that the whole thing would have gotten completely out of hand if not for the stand taken by Cotton." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Sens. John Thune and John Barrasso told Drucker that the whole thing would have gotten completely out of hand if not for the stand taken by Cotton." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "When you think of Tom Cotton, you probably think of the senator who wanted to use the military to bash Black Lives Matter protesters." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Besides, Cotton might have reasoned he could never get to the right of Hawley and Cruz in a 2024 race to the bottom, so why not stake out a slightly saner niche?" | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "Besides, Cotton might have reasoned he could never get to the right of Hawley and Cruz in a 2024 race to the bottom, so why not stake out a slightly saner niche?" | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "Besides, Cotton might have reasoned he could never get to the right of Hawley and Cruz in a 2024 race to the bottom, so why not stake out a slightly saner niche?" | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "As Drucker explains, upon determining that Trump's objections were unconstitutional, Cotton contacted McCoell, and." | Negative | -60% Liberal |
| "As Drucker explains, upon determining that Trump's objections were unconstitutional, Cotton contacted McCoell, and." | Negative | -60% Liberal |
| "As Drucker explains, upon determining that Trump's objections were unconstitutional, Cotton contacted McCoell, and." | Negative | -60% Liberal |
| "By biding his time and husbanding his conservative credibility until just the right time, Cotton dealt the greatest blow possible to Trump's worst ambitions." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "By biding his time and husbanding his conservative credibility until just the right time, Cotton dealt the greatest blow possible to Trump's worst ambitions." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "Now, there's plenty of criticism to go around for Cotton (and McCoell) when it comes to failing to kick Trump when he was down." | Negative | -74% Liberal |
| "Now, there's plenty of criticism to go around for Cotton (and McCoell) when it comes to failing to kick Trump when he was down." | Negative | -74% Liberal |
| "Now, there's plenty of criticism to go around for Cotton (and McCoell) when it comes to failing to kick Trump when he was down." | Negative | -74% Liberal |
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28% : When you think of Tom Cotton, you probably think of the senator who wanted to use the military to bash Black Lives Matter protesters.*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.