Financial Times Article RatingJoe Biden and Donald Trump head to Texas as immigration debate heats up
Feb 27, 2024 View Original Article
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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
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| "Trump wrote on Truth Social." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Republicans have blamed lax immigration rules under Biden for a surge in illegal border crossings from Mexico, while the president has lashed out at congressional Republicans for blocking an immigration deal under pressure from Trump." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "The surge of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border since Biden entered the White House in 2021 has become a problem for the president as he gears up for an expected gruelling re-election contest against Trump, who is making his own trip this week to Eagle Pass, another border town in Texas." | Negative | -74% Liberal |
| "In a social media post on Monday, Trump blamed Biden for a border invasion that was destroying our country and killing our citizens, citing the death last week of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old student at the University of Georgia allegedly killed by a citizen of Venezuela who entered the US illegally." | Negative | -74% Liberal |
| "US President Joe Biden and his rival Donald Trump are set to visit the US-Mexico border on Thursday, as illegal immigration becomes an increasingly potent political issue in the race for the White House." | Negative | -86% Liberal |
| "New York Democrat Tom Suozzi won a special election earlier this month for a US House seat in part by campaigning for tighter controls at the southern border." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Biden will travel on Thursday to Brownsville, Texas, on the border with Mexico, and meet US Border Patrol agents, law enforcement and local leaders." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Biden and his Democratic allies have increasingly sharpened their rhetoric on immigration in recent weeks, despite concerns from some progressives in his party about the shift in tone." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "The executive order could come before next week's State of the Union on March 7, which Biden's allies consider a chance for him to reset a re-election campaign stymied by low approval ratings and public concern about the 81-year-old president's age." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Trump wrote on Truth Social." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Months ago, I instructed my team to begin working with bipartisan lawmakers to fix our immigration system, Biden said in a post on X. They did a hell of a job, and together, we put forward some of the most fair reforms ever.Speaker [Mike] Johnson, it's time to call a vote and send this bill to my desk, he added, referring to the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Months ago, I instructed my team to begin working with bipartisan lawmakers to fix our immigration system, Biden said in a post on X. They did a hell of a job, and together, we put forward some of the most fair reforms ever.Speaker [Mike] Johnson, it's time to call a vote and send this bill to my desk, he added, referring to the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "He cited separate Monmouth polling showing immigration was Biden's weakest policy area, even among Democratic voters." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "In a memo to fellow Democrats after Suozzi's victory, US Senator Chris Murphy urged his colleagues to take a tougher stance on immigration and call out Republicans for rejecting the bipartisan border deal." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "In a memo to fellow Democrats after Suozzi's victory, US Senator Chris Murphy urged his colleagues to take a tougher stance on immigration and call out Republicans for rejecting the bipartisan border deal." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Biden is reportedly separately considering issuing an executive order to restrict undocumented migrants' ability to claim asylum once they reach the US." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Biden's Republican opponents say the Democratic president is doing too little too late." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Georgia's Republican governor Brian Kemp also linked Riley's death to the border, telling a news conference: Because of the White House's failures, every state is now a border stateu2009.u2009.u2009." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "We risk losing the 2024 election if we do not seize this opportunity to go on offence on the issue of the border and turn the tables on Republicans on a key fall voting issue, Murphy wrote." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Republicans have blamed lax immigration rules under Biden for a surge in illegal border crossings from Mexico, while the president has lashed out at congressional Republicans for blocking an immigration deal under pressure from Trump." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Now Biden's handlers are sending him there on the same day as president Trump's publicly reported trip, not because they actually want to solve the problem, but because they know Biden is losing terribly, said Karoline Leavitt, press secretary for Trump's presidential campaign." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Now Biden's handlers are sending him there on the same day as president Trump's publicly reported trip, not because they actually want to solve the problem, but because they know Biden is losing terribly, said Karoline Leavitt, press secretary for Trump's presidential campaign." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Now Biden's handlers are sending him there on the same day as president Trump's publicly reported trip, not because they actually want to solve the problem, but because they know Biden is losing terribly, said Karoline Leavitt, press secretary for Trump's presidential campaign." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Now Biden's handlers are sending him there on the same day as president Trump's publicly reported trip, not because they actually want to solve the problem, but because they know Biden is losing terribly, said Karoline Leavitt, press secretary for Trump's presidential campaign." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The surge of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border since Biden entered the White House in 2021 has become a problem for the president as he gears up for an expected gruelling re-election contest against Trump, who is making his own trip this week to Eagle Pass, another border town in Texas." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The surge of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border since Biden entered the White House in 2021 has become a problem for the president as he gears up for an expected gruelling re-election contest against Trump, who is making his own trip this week to Eagle Pass, another border town in Texas." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "In a social media post on Monday, Trump blamed Biden for a border invasion that was destroying our country and killing our citizens, citing the death last week of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old student at the University of Georgia allegedly killed by a citizen of Venezuela who entered the US illegally." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "In a social media post on Monday, Trump blamed Biden for a border invasion that was destroying our country and killing our citizens, citing the death last week of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old student at the University of Georgia allegedly killed by a citizen of Venezuela who entered the US illegally." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "US President Joe Biden and his rival Donald Trump are set to visit the US-Mexico border on Thursday, as illegal immigration becomes an increasingly potent political issue in the race for the White House." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "US President Joe Biden and his rival Donald Trump are set to visit the US-Mexico border on Thursday, as illegal immigration becomes an increasingly potent political issue in the race for the White House." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
44% : Trump wrote on Truth Social.21% : Republicans have blamed lax immigration rules under Biden for a surge in illegal border crossings from Mexico, while the president has lashed out at congressional Republicans for blocking an immigration deal under pressure from Trump.
13% : The surge of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border since Biden entered the White House in 2021 has become a problem for the president as he gears up for an expected gruelling re-election contest against Trump, who is making his own trip this week to Eagle Pass, another border town in Texas.
13% : In a social media post on Monday, Trump blamed Biden for a border "invasion" that was "destroying our country and killing our citizens", citing the death last week of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old student at the University of Georgia allegedly killed by a citizen of Venezuela who entered the US illegally.
7% : US President Joe Biden and his rival Donald Trump are set to visit the US-Mexico border on Thursday, as illegal immigration becomes an increasingly potent political issue in the race for the White House.
*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.