The Colorado Sun Article RatingLittwin: On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, it's pretty obvious that Republicans have blown it once again
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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
|---|---|---|
| "And if she survived New Hampshire, she'd next have to go to her home state of South Carolina, where Trump is easily leading in all the polls." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "The judge had reluctantly given Trump permission to address the court following his lawyers' closing arguments, but only if he followed the rules." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Jake Tapper, one of the CNN moderators, asked Haley whether Trump had the character to be president." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "And if Trump, who has refused to debate, had been watching -- he was actually doing a fact-free, counter-programming town hall on Fox, which, by the way, had double the ratings of the debate -- he would have had to laugh." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "I mean, Haley's non-answer came just days after Trump went full birther again, this time sharing a post from a far-right-wing website claiming that Haley wasn't eligible to run for president despite the fact that she was born -- although we haven't seen her birth certificate -- in South Carolina." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Not the GOP voters who will inevitably line up behind Trump." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "And then as if to clear things up, she added: His way is not my way." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Of course, that would be a distant second, 30 points or so behind Trump." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "I don't need to list all the times that Republicans could have walked away from Trump and failed to do so." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "So it is that on Monday, unless the polling is completely wrong, Iowa Republicans will take the first official step of 2024 toward reinstalling Trump as the GOP nominee for president/would-be dictator." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "I don't think Trump would go that far." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "I don't need to list all the leading Republicans who stood by as Trump took over their party and reduced it to a platform for bigotry, hate, vengeance, lawlessness, demagoguery and now a full-on authoritarian threat to democracy." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "And the thing about this race, though, is that Trump has never been an easier target -- or a more dangerous one -- than he is today." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "You could also call it the hear-no-evil, speak-no-evil primary, in which would-be opponents have refused to actually run against Trump." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "And now Christie states the obvious, Anyone who is unwilling to say that (Trump) is unfit to be the president of the United States is unfit themselves to be president of the United States." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "That future president might also want to read up on the 14th Amendment, and not just Section 3, which the Colorado Supreme Court has used to rule Trump ineligible for the Colorado ballot." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Christie has been there, having shamelessly endorsed Trump in 2016." | Negative | -54% Liberal |
| "Trump sat in the courtroom and watched as his lawyer tried to make the case that a president could only be tried for a crime after his presidency if he had been impeached and convicted while president." | Negative | -54% Liberal |
| "But this Republican primary, coming nine years after Trump walked down the gilded escalator to aounce his first presidential campaign, is probably the most damning example of Trump enablement." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "The idea that Trump would be vulnerable against Haley in a two-way race is hard to accept." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "But now he's still trying to shame Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, the only semi-legitimate Trump opponents left in what passes for a primary race, for failing to take on Trump." | Negative | -70% Liberal |
| "And New Hampshire seems to be Haley's best state, where polls give her a chance." | Positive | 26% Conservative |
| "DeSantis did take the time, however, to bash Disney for -- get this -- transing kids, whatever that is." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "And if she survived New Hampshire, she'd next have to go to her home state of South Carolina, where Trump is easily leading in all the polls." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Section 1 clears up the non-issue of Haley's birthright citizenship." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "At this point in the non-race, Haley is the only non-Trump candidate with any kind of momentum." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "The judge had reluctantly given Trump permission to address the court following his lawyers' closing arguments, but only if he followed the rules." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "If she can get a strong second in Iowa and then maybe even a win in New Hampshire -- where Christie voters should go to Haley -- then ..." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "You heard Christie's hot-mic evaluation of Haley's chances: She's going to get smoked." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Jake Tapper, one of the CNN moderators, asked Haley whether Trump had the character to be president." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Jake Tapper, one of the CNN moderators, asked Haley whether Trump had the character to be president." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "And if Trump, who has refused to debate, had been watching -- he was actually doing a fact-free, counter-programming town hall on Fox, which, by the way, had double the ratings of the debate -- he would have had to laugh." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "I mean, Haley's non-answer came just days after Trump went full birther again, this time sharing a post from a far-right-wing website claiming that Haley wasn't eligible to run for president despite the fact that she was born -- although we haven't seen her birth certificate -- in South Carolina." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "I mean, Haley's non-answer came just days after Trump went full birther again, this time sharing a post from a far-right-wing website claiming that Haley wasn't eligible to run for president despite the fact that she was born -- although we haven't seen her birth certificate -- in South Carolina." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "I mean, Haley's non-answer came just days after Trump went full birther again, this time sharing a post from a far-right-wing website claiming that Haley wasn't eligible to run for president despite the fact that she was born -- although we haven't seen her birth certificate -- in South Carolina." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "But if DeSantis doesn't finish at least in second place in Iowa, where he has basically based his campaign for months, he would surely have to drop out." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "You either laugh or cry, or if you're Haley, you suggest some future president needs to have moral clarity." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "And yet.She just moved ahead of DeSantis in an Iowa poll." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Of course, that would be a distant second, 30 points or so behind Trump." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "There he was on Thursday in New York, where the civil fraud trial against him, his sons and Trump's company was winding down." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "For Christie, a former Trump supporter and an admitted former Trump enabler, this has been both a truth-telling tour and an apology tour." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "And yet as Chris Christie noted as he bowed out of the Republican presidential primary race on Wednesday, no one is listening to his warnings about a second Donald Trump presidency." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Not Trump's so-called primary rivals who are clearly afraid to tell anything remotely close to the truth about the twice-impeached, 91-times-indicted former president, who also happens to have been officially judged an insurrectionist." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Even though the temperatures are forecast to be around zero as Iowans gather at caucus sites, the weather can't be as chilling as the prospect of a runaway Trump victory." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "So it is that on Monday, unless the polling is completely wrong, Iowa Republicans will take the first official step of 2024 toward reinstalling Trump as the GOP nominee for president/would-be dictator." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "If he were impeached and convicted first, Trump's lawyer said." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "But he has spent months on the campaign trail anyway, saying to boos and jeers from Republican audiences that an unhinged Trump is unfit to be president." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "I don't think Trump would go that far." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "I don't need to list all the leading Republicans who stood by as Trump took over their party and reduced it to a platform for bigotry, hate, vengeance, lawlessness, demagoguery and now a full-on authoritarian threat to democracy." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "And the thing about this race, though, is that Trump has never been an easier target -- or a more dangerous one -- than he is today." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "You could also call it the hear-no-evil, speak-no-evil primary, in which would-be opponents have refused to actually run against Trump." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "And now Christie states the obvious, Anyone who is unwilling to say that (Trump) is unfit to be the president of the United States is unfit themselves to be president of the United States." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "If you watched the final pre-Iowa Republican debate, in which only Haley and DeSantis were on stage, you knew right away that Trump's various, uh, foibles might not get a full hearing." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "If you watched the final pre-Iowa Republican debate, in which only Haley and DeSantis were on stage, you knew right away that Trump's various, uh, foibles might not get a full hearing." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "If you watched the final pre-Iowa Republican debate, in which only Haley and DeSantis were on stage, you knew right away that Trump's various, uh, foibles might not get a full hearing." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "That future president might also want to read up on the 14th Amendment, and not just Section 3, which the Colorado Supreme Court has used to rule Trump ineligible for the Colorado ballot." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Christie has been there, having shamelessly endorsed Trump in 2016." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Trump sat in the courtroom and watched as his lawyer tried to make the case that a president could only be tried for a crime after his presidency if he had been impeached and convicted while president." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "But this Republican primary, coming nine years after Trump walked down the gilded escalator to aounce his first presidential campaign, is probably the most damning example of Trump enablement." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "But this Republican primary, coming nine years after Trump walked down the gilded escalator to aounce his first presidential campaign, is probably the most damning example of Trump enablement." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "In fact, Jonathan V. Last wrote in Bulwark that wiing New Hampshire would be a disaster for Haley, who would then come under the full force of Trump's venomous -- or should we say verminous?" | Negative | -60% Liberal |
| "In fact, Jonathan V. Last wrote in Bulwark that wiing New Hampshire would be a disaster for Haley, who would then come under the full force of Trump's venomous -- or should we say verminous?" | Negative | -60% Liberal |
| "The idea that Trump would be vulnerable against Haley in a two-way race is hard to accept." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "The idea that Trump would be vulnerable against Haley in a two-way race is hard to accept." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Meanwhile Haley and DeSantis, whose flailing campaign is a lesson in Florida-man hubris, took turns calling each other liars, even as neither mentioned the other, uh, liar in the race -- and I don't mean Vivek Ramaswamy." | Negative | -66% Liberal |
| "Meanwhile Haley and DeSantis, whose flailing campaign is a lesson in Florida-man hubris, took turns calling each other liars, even as neither mentioned the other, uh, liar in the race -- and I don't mean Vivek Ramaswamy." | Negative | -66% Liberal |
| "Conspiracy theorist and devout Trumpist Laura Loomer, who was also a failed GOP congressional candidate, tweeted an accusation that Haley had somehow manipulated the bad weather in Iowa." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "Conspiracy theorist and devout Trumpist Laura Loomer, who was also a failed GOP congressional candidate, tweeted an accusation that Haley had somehow manipulated the bad weather in Iowa." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "But now he's still trying to shame Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, the only semi-legitimate Trump opponents left in what passes for a primary race, for failing to take on Trump." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "But now he's still trying to shame Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, the only semi-legitimate Trump opponents left in what passes for a primary race, for failing to take on Trump." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
57% : And if she survived New Hampshire, she'd next have to go to her home state of South Carolina, where Trump is easily leading in all the polls.53% : The judge had reluctantly given Trump permission to address the court following his lawyers' closing arguments, but only if he followed the rules.
48% : Jake Tapper, one of the CNN moderators, asked Haley whether Trump had the character to be president.
47% : And if Trump, who has refused to debate, had been watching -- he was actually doing a fact-free, counter-programming town hall on Fox, which, by the way, had double the ratings of the debate -- he would have had to laugh.
47% : I mean, Haley's non-answer came just days after Trump went full birther again, this time sharing a post from a far-right-wing website claiming that Haley wasn't eligible to run for president despite the fact that she was born -- although we haven't seen her birth certificate -- in South Carolina.
45% : Not the GOP voters who will inevitably line up behind Trump.
44% : And then as if to clear things up, she added: "His way is not my way."
41% : Of course, that would be a distant second, 30 points or so behind Trump.
38% : I don't need to list all the times that Republicans could have walked away from Trump and failed to do so.
36% : So it is that on Monday, unless the polling is completely wrong, Iowa Republicans will take the first official step of 2024 toward reinstalling Trump as the GOP nominee for president/would-be dictator.
34% : I don't think Trump would go that far.
33% : I don't need to list all the leading Republicans who stood by as Trump took over their party and reduced it to a platform for bigotry, hate, vengeance, lawlessness, demagoguery and now a full-on authoritarian threat to democracy.
28% : "And the thing about this race, though, is that Trump has never been an easier target -- or a more dangerous one -- than he is today.
27% : You could also call it the hear-no-evil, speak-no-evil primary, in which would-be opponents have refused to actually run against Trump.
25% : And now Christie states the obvious, "Anyone who is unwilling to say that (Trump) is unfit to be the president of the United States is unfit themselves to be president of the United States.
24% : That future president might also want to read up on the 14th Amendment, and not just Section 3, which the Colorado Supreme Court has used to rule Trump ineligible for the Colorado ballot.
23% : "Christie has been there, having shamelessly endorsed Trump in 2016.
23% : Trump sat in the courtroom and watched as his lawyer tried to make the case that a president could only be tried for a crime after his presidency if he had been impeached and convicted while president.
22% : But this Republican primary, coming nine years after Trump walked down the gilded escalator to announce his first presidential campaign, is probably the most damning example of Trump enablement.
19% : The idea that Trump would be vulnerable against Haley in a two-way race is hard to accept.
15% : But now he's still trying to shame Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, the only semi-legitimate Trump opponents left in what passes for a primary race, for failing to take on Trump.
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