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Trump's speech to Congress has the ingredients for an explosive event

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

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  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Among Republicans, Trump has attracted everything from fervent support to anxious deference.
60% : Trump also surprised a military family that year by announcing that their husband and father was home from Afghanistan, prompting loud applause and chants of "USA! USA!"
57% : Skip to end of carousel Trump presidency Follow live updates on the Trump administration.
57% : " If the past is a guide, Trump is likely to speak in vivid terms, potentially inflaming Democrats even more.
53% : But the tensions soon resumed and then escalated, coming to a full boil by 2020, when Trump delivered the final State of the Union address of his first term.
52% : "But in this case, it actually will be more like a State of the Union address because President Trump has such a long series of victories -- things that he has done, promises he has kept," Johnson said on Fox News.
51% : Other Democrats worry that staying away would cede the territory to Trump -- and to Republicans lawmakers prepared to cheer the president at every turn.
42% : And in January's inaugural address, after saying he had been "tested and challenged more than any president in our 250-year history," Trump opined that he had survived an assassination attempt because "I was saved by God to make America great again.
40% : "Trump has done anything but that," Prasch said.
35% : But Trump has shown little concern for the views of the legislative branch.
33% : " In 2020, Trump interrupted his State of the Union address to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to radio host Rush Limbaugh, who had been diagnosed with lung cancer.
32% : He quickly went on offense, ripping into Trump, then his likely opponent, for attacking democracy and abortion rights.
27% : " Such sentiments may not go over well with Democrats who believe that Trump is seeking to dismantle the U.S. government in violation of statutes they spent years fighting to pass.
27% : Since taking office on Jan. 20, Trump has tried to freeze billions in spending authorized by Congress.
11% : "I'm bringing Doug to force Trump to confront the federal workers he fired -- the people who make this country run," Warren said.

*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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