Oklahoma Republicans censure James Lankford over effort to push bipartisan border deal | KATU
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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.
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| "It's not going to happen, and I'll fight it all the way, Trump said at a campaign event in Nevada Saturday." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "He made clear that he has been supportive of Senator Lankford's negotiating efforts and that we should be supportive of any work product that leads to greater border security.__________________________KOKH's Katharyn Burkhead contributed reporting" | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "What's been negotiated would - if passed into law - be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we've ever had in our country, Biden said a statement Friday." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "OKLAHOMA CITY (TND) -- Sen. James Lankford has been censured by the Oklahoma Republican Party over his continued pursuit of a bipartisan border deal that would pair enhanced border security measures with a new round of funding for Ukraine and Israel." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "[We] Do not have a vote count yet on this, because everyone has got to be able to read it to go through, Lankford said on Face the Nation Sunday." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "While House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has declared the deal dead on arrival in the House, Senate Republicans are renewing support for the measure after seeing Democrats' compromises on stricter border measures." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "For me it was certainly clarifying, Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., told Politico." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "However, the Oklahoma GOP does not think Lankford's good faith attempts at compromise represent a commitment to the security of their state and accuse him and this deal of jeopardizing the security of Oklahomans." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The resolution is censuring the state's senior senator for his recent work with Democrat Senator Charles Schumer on an open border deal to allow 5,000 illegal immigrants a day to enter and work in the United States." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Until Senator Lankford ceases from these actions, the Oklahoma Republican Party will cease all support for him, the resolution continues." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "While Senate Republican Leader Mitch McCoell, R-Ky., seemed to torpedo support for the deal Wednesday following Trump's strong campaign against it (which also earned the twice-impeached president ire from some Senate Republicans) he clarified in a Senate GOP meeting Thursday that he still favors a deal tying border security to aid for Ukraine and Israel." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "While Senate Republican Leader Mitch McCoell, R-Ky., seemed to torpedo support for the deal Wednesday following Trump's strong campaign against it (which also earned the twice-impeached president ire from some Senate Republicans) he clarified in a Senate GOP meeting Thursday that he still favors a deal tying border security to aid for Ukraine and Israel." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "It's not going to happen, and I'll fight it all the way, Trump said at a campaign event in Nevada Saturday." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "The party's move against their senior senator comes as former President Donald Trump has been pressuring Republicans to reject the deal as he seeks to make Biden's handling of the border crisis a major wedge issue over the next 10 months." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "The party's move against their senior senator comes as former President Donald Trump has been pressuring Republicans to reject the deal as he seeks to make Biden's handling of the border crisis a major wedge issue over the next 10 months." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
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32% : It's not going to happen, and I'll fight it all the way," Trump said at a campaign event in Nevada Saturday.*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.