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Republicans back Gov. Kim Reynolds on sending Iowa state troopers to the border

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Source The Gazette bias rating
Published Jul 15, 2021
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Bias Score Analysis

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.

Policy Leaning Analysis

This article includes the following sentiments, providing an average bias score of -12% Liberal:

  • 1 negative sentiment for War on Drugs
  • 2 negative sentiments for Border Wall
  • 2 positive sentiments for Border control

Politician Portrayal Analysis:

This article includes the following Politician Portrayal sentiments, providing an average sentiment of 96% Negative and bias score of -26% Liberal:

1 positive sentiment for Chuck Grassley
1 negative sentiment for Joni Ernst
1 negative sentiment for Kim Reynolds
2 negative sentiments and 2 positive sentiments for Joe Biden
1 negative sentiment and 2 positive sentiments for Donald Trump

Policies:

Border control
Border Wall
War on Drugs

Politicians:

Chuck Grassley
Joni Ernst
Kim Reynolds
Joe Biden
Donald Trump

Sentiments

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18% "Border security is important, there's no doubt about it, Wahls said""
10% "Reynolds said last month she was helping Texas with border security because the rise in drugs, human trafficking and violent crime has become unsustainable.""
0% During his weekly call with Iowa reporters, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who has been in Washington since 1975 and the U.S. Senate since 1981, ..."
-4% Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, a second-term Red Oak Republican in the U.S. Senate since 2015, told reporters during a separate teleconference that she believes ..."
-6% "Whether we want to admit that or not, those problems down on the southern border are becoming problems here in the state of Iowa, ..."
-6% "I don't know how we have 25 or 30 troopers available to go down to the southern border and take over some federal role ..."
-10% Elected Republicans at the state and federal levels are throwing their support behind Gov. Kim Reynolds' decision to send Iowa State Patrol troopers to ..."
-12% "Wahls said the Biden administration is taking border security seriously and taking steps to improve it, but It's not a problem that can be ..."
-12% Wahls said the Biden administration is taking border security seriously and taking steps to improve it, "but It's not a problem that can be ..."
-28% "Given the mission to bolster security at the U.S.-Mexico border and the governor's concern about illegal drug and human trafficking, I think that that's ..."

We have listed the top 10 sentiments. More sentiments do exist. Please review the full article for more information.

*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. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : "Border security is important, there's no doubt about it," Wahls said
55% : Reynolds said last month she was helping Texas with border security because "the rise in drugs, human trafficking and violent crime has become unsustainable."
47% : "Whether we want to admit that or not, those problems down on the southern border are becoming problems here in the state of Iowa, and so I absolutely supported that
47% : "I don't know how we have 25 or 30 troopers available to go down to the southern border and take over some federal role in security our border when we don't have adequate resources to make sure that Iowa's roads are safe," he said.
44% : Wahls said the Biden administration is taking border security seriously and taking steps to improve it, "but It's not a problem that can be fixed overnight. ...
36% : Given the mission to bolster security at the U.S.-Mexico border and the governor's concern about illegal drug and human trafficking, "I think that that's a reasonable request for the governor to make," Grassley noted.

*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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