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| "His pro-labor politics consist of small tax reductions on middle- and lower-income households and a wholehearted embrace of Biden's nationalist plan to re-shore some manufacturing in the United States -- a far cry from the Green New Deal's promise of environmentally friendly union jobs." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "He does not embrace a universal amnesty for undocumented immigrants but calls for a strong, secure and humane immigration system that would modernize our visa system and asylum programs so that they can't be exploited by bad actors and would provide a pathway to citizenship only for frontline workers, small business owners and Dreamers." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Jeffries, Pelosi's most likely successor for the leadership of the party's House caucus and potentially the first African-American Speaker of the House if the Democrats regain a majority, is a vocal opponent of the Democratic Party left, including opposing the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, and any move to defund the police." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "Marijuana legalization was approved in Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, and both South and North Dakota, with between 53 percent to 66 percent in favor." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "His Build Back Better plan, praised by some on the Left as The New New Deal, was in fact a form of Imperialist Keynesianism." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "However, the outcome of referenda on abortion rights, increased minimum wages, union rights, and marijuana legalization demonstrate that there is significant support for policies that benefit working-class and oppressed people." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "As a result, after all the electoral campaigns, the socialist Left is weaker and our program -- a Green New Deal, Medicare for All, defunding the police, and the like -- politically marginal, while the social movements, except for labor, are demobilized." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "In keeping with the popular repudiation of Dobbs, people voted for abortion rights in a clean sweep of measures in California, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, and Vermont, with pro-choice positions receiving anywhere from 52 percent to a high in the Green Mountain State of 77 percent." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Put simply, the Squad's promise of being a voice for democratic socialism in the U.S. Congress has been sacrificed, as have previous left-wing attempts to use the Democrats to advance substantial reforms, in the interest of unity within the second most enthusiastic capitalist party in the world." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The spring and summer of 2020 saw the largest social movement in U.S. history, denouncing the police murders of people of color and making the abolitionist demand for defunding the police and refunding social services the common sense of millions of people." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "While the Squad pledged to fight for a Green New Deal and Medicare for All and against the U.S. military and economic aid to Israel when they were first elected in 2018, their practice has been quite different." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "On health care, Fetterman refuses to embrace Medicare for All and the abolition of private insurance, rather supporting any legislation that gets us closer to the goal of universal health care coverage -- a stance that includes expanding Obamacare's public subsidies to the private health care industry." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Already, it stands poised to overturn affirmative action in higher education and has the 1965 Voting Rights Act in its sights." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "It is true that the rest of the Squad still, on occasion, talk about the Green New Deal or Medicare for All." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Today, the Democrats -- so-called progressives included -- now campaign on increasing police funding and join the Right in demonizing abolitionists." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Most positioned themselves as moderates, and the progressives dropped almost any mention of the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, and defunding the police." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "In reality, the Democrats' track record on abortion, democratic elections, and fighting the Right has been less than stellar." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Instead, they focused on the promise to defend abortion, democracy, Social Security, and Medicare against attacks by the MAGA candidates." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "New York's Democrats are more likely to follow the lead of Mayor Adams, who wants the Democrats to move right in general on criminal justice reform (reinstituting cash bail) and policing, as well adopting more business friendly policies." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "As Nate Cohn has argued, the Democrats did best in districts where defense of abortion and democracy were central issues, often wiing by razor thin margins in swing districts around the country." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Republican state governments will launch new reactionary assaults on bodily autonomy (especially reproductive and transgender rights), voter access, criminal justice, education, union rights, and social spending." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "And in the midterms, more than one-fourth of voters indicated that abortion was the key issue deciding their vote." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Victory or defeat in this tight election was determined by the two key issues of abortion and democracy." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Despite having complete control over the government several times since Roe, they never codified it as a national law, repeatedly ratified the ban on federal funding for abortion, and stood by while both the legal right and access to abortion have been further and further restricted." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "And the only job program Biden seemed to champion at the time was increased funding for the police." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "His pro-labor politics consist of small tax reductions on middle- and lower-income households and a wholehearted embrace of Biden's nationalist plan to re-shore some manufacturing in the United States -- a far cry from the Green New Deal's promise of environmentally friendly union jobs." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Jeffries, Pelosi's most likely successor for the leadership of the party's House caucus and potentially the first African-American Speaker of the House if the Democrats regain a majority, is a vocal opponent of the Democratic Party left, including opposing the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, and any move to defund the police." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Jeffries, Pelosi's most likely successor for the leadership of the party's House caucus and potentially the first African-American Speaker of the House if the Democrats regain a majority, is a vocal opponent of the Democratic Party left, including opposing the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, and any move to defund the police." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "All of the leading contenders to replace the current House Democratic leaders -- Hakeem Jeffries of New York, Katherine Clark of Massachusetts, and Pete Aguilar of California -- are well within the Democratic mainstream." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "All of the leading contenders to replace the current House Democratic leaders -- Hakeem Jeffries of New York, Katherine Clark of Massachusetts, and Pete Aguilar of California -- are well within the Democratic mainstream." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "All of the leading contenders to replace the current House Democratic leaders -- Hakeem Jeffries of New York, Katherine Clark of Massachusetts, and Pete Aguilar of California -- are well within the Democratic mainstream." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Caught between the loss of moderate Republican and independent voters in key swing districts and the undying support of Trump among the core of the Republican voter base, the party establishment is coalescing around Florida Governor Ron DeSantis." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Caught between the loss of moderate Republican and independent voters in key swing districts and the undying support of Trump among the core of the Republican voter base, the party establishment is coalescing around Florida Governor Ron DeSantis." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Despite the recent downtick in inflation, stagflation will persist, which will continue to erode support for Biden, who, despite his abysmal approval rating, seems determined to run for president in 2024 at the age of 82." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "While Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has not yet endorsed Jeffries, saying that she and her caucus needed time for healing, it is likely that she and the rest of the Squad will, as they have consistently done, embrace the mainstream leadership in the interest of party unity." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "While Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has not yet endorsed Jeffries, saying that she and her caucus needed time for healing, it is likely that she and the rest of the Squad will, as they have consistently done, embrace the mainstream leadership in the interest of party unity." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Jeffries, for example, forged a political action committee, Team Blue, specifically designed to fend off primary challenges to centrist Democrats from the Left." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "With Biden's approval ratings hovering in the low 40s, the Democratic mainstream and so-called progressives took their lead from New York City Mayor Eric Adams, preparing a campaign focused on law and order." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "In a cynical and dangerous maneuver, the Democrats spent nearly $40 million on ads supporting Trump-endorsed candidates in the hope of easy victories in the general election." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Immediately after the election, more than 1,100 state Democratic leaders, from the Ocasio-Cortez to the pro-real estate city comptroller Brad Lander, have called for Governor Kathy Hochul to replace Jay Jacobs as party chair." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Since at least Sanders' campaign in 2016, and certainly since the 2020 election cycle, the Left has almost exclusively focused on electoral activity in the Democratic Party." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "The Yale- and Harvard-educated DeSantis is seen by the traditionally Republican capitalists as a sane and safe alternative to Trump, who can still make red meat appeals to the party's base and deliver the neoliberal economic policies they support." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "On criminal justice reform, Fetterman echoes Biden's call for increased funding for the police." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Neither the retirement of Nancy Pelosi as House Democratic leader after 20 years, nor disputes over losses in traditionally Blue states like New York will undermine the control of the Democratic Party's by openly pro-corporate centrists and ersatz progressives." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "The Republicans are clearly heading into a major battle in their presidential primary between the party's establishment, led by DeSantis, and Trump and his allies, who have significant, organized support among grass roots Republican activists and voters." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Trump's Big Lie cost the Republicans votes in swing districts in 2022, with his hand-chosen election deniers losing around 5 percent of the vote compared with two years earlier." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "The Democrats' ability to prevent a substantial Republican majority in the House and hold onto their edge in the Senate was the result of a large turnout of young voters and women, with a minority of Republicans and many independents voting against Trump and his hard right supporters." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "In a number of states, Republicans split the ticket, voting for moderate Republicans like Brian Kemp for Georgia governor but against MAGA Republicans like Herschel Walker for Senate." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "As Kim Moody argues in a forthcoming article in Against the Current, only ten of the twenty-three Democrats endorsed by Senator Bernie Sanders, the Justice Democrats, and Our Revolution were elected, while four progressive incumbents were defeated in redrawn districts, leading to a gain of only three leftists in the House." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "As his runaway victory in Florida gubernatorial contest proves, he has the ability to retain the loyalty of middle-class bigots with a hard right program of racism, transphobia, homophobia, and immigrant bashing, while eschewing the narcissism and mock populism of Trump and his Big Lie." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "But they effectively dropped these issues (and any hint of reducing funding for the cops) in favor of Biden's Build Back Better plan." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Now they want nothing to do with Trump's second presidential campaign." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "The Democrats' right wing, personified by Senators Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema, scuttled most of Biden's mild welfare and climate provisions (with the partial and contradictory exception of student loan relief)." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "When Biden's original plan was defeated, the Squad did not renew agitation for more radical reforms but became foot-soldiers for the centrist Democratic majority's watered down Inflation Reduction Act." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "With Sanders soundly defeated twice, the Squad contained and trapped in the House, and politicians at the state and local level similarly boxed in, the strategy has yielded little." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Today we see organizing drives at Starbucks and Amazon, strikes of higher education workers in California and New York, rank-and-file resistance in the rail workers unions against the contract their officials cut with the Biden administration, and major contract fights looming at UPS and other employers in the coming year." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "The socialist Left needs to reorient on these struggles, helping organize independent unions and rank-and-file formations that can win against the employers and their allies in the Biden administration." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "With people struggling to afford everything from groceries to gas and housing, it is not surprising that more than three quarters of voters rated the economy not so good or poor, and nearly half said their household's financial situation has deteriorated since the election of President Biden." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Nearly two-thirds of those polled opposed the Trump-packed court's decision in Dobbs." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Large Republican donors, who previously tolerated Trump's erratic policies and personal behavior as long as he delivered tax cuts and other pro-corporate policies, are fed up with him after three consecutive defeats in national elections in 2018, 2020, and 2022." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The truth is that without Occupy, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) uprisings, the women's marches, the struggles for immigrant rights, and the Red State Teachers Revolt, Sanders' and the Squad's program would have had little or no traction." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The Biden administration has failed to enact policies to redress this crisis in working-class people's lives." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "The Democratic establishment, with little or no organized opposition from the Left inside and outside the Democratic Party, demobilized these struggles and chaeled popular anger into Biden's election campaign." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "The Democrats pivoted to take advantage of widespread disgust with Trump and his MAGA Republicans." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "The Republican-controlled House stuffed full of Trumpite reactionaries will block even the most minor reforms while they attempt to stage impeachment hearings against Joe Biden." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "But Trump's Republicans blew it for two reasons: the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, which opened the possibility of a wave of state abortion bans, and Trump's threat to democracy represented by the Big Lie that he defeated Biden in the 2020 elections." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "But Trump's Republicans blew it for two reasons: the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, which opened the possibility of a wave of state abortion bans, and Trump's threat to democracy represented by the Big Lie that he defeated Biden in the 2020 elections." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "But Trump's Republicans blew it for two reasons: the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, which opened the possibility of a wave of state abortion bans, and Trump's threat to democracy represented by the Big Lie that he defeated Biden in the 2020 elections." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
58% : His "pro-labor" politics consist of small tax reductions on middle- and lower-income households and a wholehearted embrace of Biden's nationalist plan to "re-shore" some manufacturing in the United States -- a far cry from the Green New Deal's promise of environmentally friendly union jobs.58% : He does not embrace a universal amnesty for undocumented immigrants but calls for a "strong, secure and humane" immigration system that would "modernize our visa system and asylum programs so that they can't be exploited by bad actors" and would provide a pathway to citizenship only for "frontline workers, small business owners" and Dreamers.
57% : Jeffries, Pelosi's most likely successor for the leadership of the party's House caucus and potentially the first African-American Speaker of the House if the Democrats regain a majority, is a vocal opponent of the Democratic Party left, including opposing the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, and any move to defund the police.
55% : Marijuana legalization was approved in Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, and both South and North Dakota, with between 53 percent to 66 percent in favor.
54% : His "Build Back Better" plan, praised by some on the Left as "The New New Deal," was in fact a form of "Imperialist Keynesianism."
53% : However, the outcome of referenda on abortion rights, increased minimum wages, union rights, and marijuana legalization demonstrate that there is significant support for policies that benefit working-class and oppressed people.
51% : As a result, after all the electoral campaigns, the socialist Left is weaker and our program -- a Green New Deal, Medicare for All, defunding the police, and the like -- politically marginal, while the social movements, except for labor, are demobilized.
50% : In keeping with the popular repudiation of Dobbs, people voted for abortion rights in a clean sweep of measures in California, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, and Vermont, with pro-choice positions receiving anywhere from 52 percent to a high in the Green Mountain State of 77 percent.
50% :Put simply, the Squad's promise of being a voice for democratic socialism in the U.S. Congress has been sacrificed, as have previous left-wing attempts to use the Democrats to advance substantial reforms, in the interest of "unity" within the second most enthusiastic capitalist party in the world.
50% : The spring and summer of 2020 saw the largest social movement in U.S. history, denouncing the police murders of people of color and making the abolitionist demand for defunding the police and refunding social services the common sense of millions of people.
49% : While the Squad pledged to fight for a Green New Deal and Medicare for All and against the U.S. military and economic aid to Israel when they were first elected in 2018, their practice has been quite different.
48% : On health care, Fetterman refuses to embrace Medicare for All and the abolition of private insurance, rather supporting "any legislation that gets us closer to the goal of universal health care coverage" -- a stance that includes expanding Obamacare's public subsidies to the private health care industry.
48% : Already, it stands poised to overturn affirmative action in higher education and has the 1965 Voting Rights Act in its sights.
47% : It is true that the rest of the Squad still, on occasion, talk about the Green New Deal or Medicare for All.
46% : Today, the Democrats -- so-called progressives included -- now campaign on increasing police funding and join the Right in demonizing abolitionists.
45% : Most positioned themselves as moderates, and the "progressives" dropped almost any mention of the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, and defunding the police.
45% : In reality, the Democrats' track record on abortion, democratic elections, and fighting the Right has been less than stellar.
43% : Instead, they focused on the promise to defend abortion, democracy, Social Security, and Medicare against attacks by the MAGA candidates.
40% : New York's Democrats are more likely to follow the lead of Mayor Adams, who wants the Democrats to move right in general on criminal justice reform (reinstituting cash bail) and policing, as well adopting more "business friendly" policies.
39% : As Nate Cohn has argued, the Democrats did best in districts where defense of abortion and democracy were central issues, often winning by razor thin margins in "swing" districts around the country.
39% : Republican state governments will launch new reactionary assaults on bodily autonomy (especially reproductive and transgender rights), voter access, "criminal justice," education, union rights, and social spending.
38% : And in the midterms, more than one-fourth of voters indicated that abortion was the key issue deciding their vote.
38% : Victory or defeat in this tight election was determined by the two key issues of abortion and democracy.
29% : Despite having complete control over the government several times since Roe, they never codified it as a national law, repeatedly ratified the ban on federal funding for abortion, and stood by while both the legal right and access to abortion have been further and further restricted.
*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.