TIME Article RatingThese Are the Biggest Moments From the Fourth Republican Debate
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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
|---|---|---|
| "She said some donors dislike her tough-on-China approach, the fact that she's signed anti-abortion bills, or her opposition to corporate bailouts." | Positive | 28% Conservative |
| "He suggested that Haley is fascist, eliciting boos from the crowd, and later accused the former ambassador to the United Nations of not knowing the names of Ukrainian provinces." | Negative | -70% Liberal |
| "I love all the attention, fellas -- thank you for that, Haley said." | Positive | 32% Conservative |
| "Nikki is meeting with all these people, DeSantis said." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "Nikki is meeting with all these people, DeSantis said." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "As much as everybody wants to talk about how Donald Trump had a good economy, $9 trillion in debt he did just in four years, she said." | Positive | 22% Conservative |
| "Haley said her rivals are just jealous of the growing list of wealthy donors supporting her campaign: They wish that they were supporting them." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "She caves any time the left comes after her, any time the media comes after her, DeSantis said." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "We have to stop the chaos, but you can't defeat Democrat chaos with Republican chaos, Haley said." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Haley claimed that if this had been the KKK that was doing protests on those campuses, every one of those college presidents would have been up in arms." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, a participant in the last debate, suspended his presidential campaign on November 12." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "And that's what Donald Trump gives us." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "The Haley pile-on from DeSantis and Ramaswamy in particular helped cement the idea that she's surging before Iowa." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "The Haley pile-on from DeSantis and Ramaswamy in particular helped cement the idea that she's surging before Iowa." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "All three of them have been licking Donald Trump's boots for years for money and endorsements, he said of his rivals." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "DeSantis and Ramaswamy teamed up against Haley to attack her for meeting with Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, who they said is at the forefront of the ESG effort -- an investing strategy that focuses on environmental, social and corporate governance." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "DeSantis defends lagging campaign and attacks HaleyAsked about his inability to consolidate the non-Trump vote despite high spending and initial momentum, DeSantis said, We have a great idea in America that the voters actually make these decisions, not pundits or pollsters." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "DeSantis defends lagging campaign and attacks HaleyAsked about his inability to consolidate the non-Trump vote despite high spending and initial momentum, DeSantis said, We have a great idea in America that the voters actually make these decisions, not pundits or pollsters." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "DeSantis defends lagging campaign and attacks HaleyAsked about his inability to consolidate the non-Trump vote despite high spending and initial momentum, DeSantis said, We have a great idea in America that the voters actually make these decisions, not pundits or pollsters." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Knives out for TrumpThe candidates' attacks on Trump were more urgent than in previous debates as he maintains a commanding lead in the polls heading into Iowa." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "The exchange on foreign policy experience led to an intense back-and-forth between Ramaswamy and Christie, who defended Haley." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Haley's high-dollar donors under scrutinyHaley, who has seen a rise in the polls and a boost from wealthy Wall Street donors, responded to the suggestion from moderator Megyn Kelly that she is too tight with the banks and the billionaires to win over the GOP's working class base, which mostly wants to break the system, not elect someone beholden to it.When it comes to these corporate people that want to suddenly support us, we'll take it, Haley said." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Haley's high-dollar donors under scrutinyHaley, who has seen a rise in the polls and a boost from wealthy Wall Street donors, responded to the suggestion from moderator Megyn Kelly that she is too tight with the banks and the billionaires to win over the GOP's working class base, which mostly wants to break the system, not elect someone beholden to it.When it comes to these corporate people that want to suddenly support us, we'll take it, Haley said." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Haley's high-dollar donors under scrutinyHaley, who has seen a rise in the polls and a boost from wealthy Wall Street donors, responded to the suggestion from moderator Megyn Kelly that she is too tight with the banks and the billionaires to win over the GOP's working class base, which mostly wants to break the system, not elect someone beholden to it.When it comes to these corporate people that want to suddenly support us, we'll take it, Haley said." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Less than six weeks ahead of the Iowa caucuses, President Donald Trump's four chief rivals for the Republican presidential nomination once again met on the debate stage." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, who failed to qualify for the last two debates, dropped out of the race this week." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Once again, Christie assumed the mantle of Trump's biggest critic, calling him Voldemort and accusing the other candidates of shying away from discussing the former President." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Only Ramaswamy left Trump alone." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Nikki, I don't have a woman problem." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "As the crowd booed, Haley declined to respond, saying, It's not worth my time to respond to him." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Haley later defended herself, saying that DeSantis continues to lie about my record." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Haley later defended herself, saying that DeSantis continues to lie about my record." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "The absence of Trump -- and the departures of Scott and Burgum -- have intensified the focus on what appears for now to be a battle for second place." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The absence of Trump -- and the departures of Scott and Burgum -- have intensified the focus on what appears for now to be a battle for second place." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The absence of Trump -- and the departures of Scott and Burgum -- have intensified the focus on what appears for now to be a battle for second place." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The candidates onstage for Wednesday's debate hosted by NewsNation were Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "The candidates onstage for Wednesday's debate hosted by NewsNation were Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "The Democrats want him to be the nominee, DeSantis continued, before arguing that Trump didn't deliver on his promises as president." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "The Democrats want him to be the nominee, DeSantis continued, before arguing that Trump didn't deliver on his promises as president." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Haley also went after Trump, saying he allowed fentanyl to continue to come into the U.S. from China and allowed the Chinese infiltration for them to buy up farmland, to put money in our universities, and to continue to do things that were harmful for America." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Haley also went after Trump, saying he allowed fentanyl to continue to come into the U.S. from China and allowed the Chinese infiltration for them to buy up farmland, to put money in our universities, and to continue to do things that were harmful for America." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Later, Ramaswamy was asked about his Hindu faith and past criticism of Haley for converting to Christianity." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "He has insulted Nikki Haley's basic intelligence -- not her positions, Christie said of Ramaswamy's attacks, saying he would win the vote for the most obnoxious blowhard in America." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Nikki is corrupt." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "He deported less than Barack Obama did." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "Antisemitism on college campusesAsked about the rise in antisemitic incidents on college campuses, Haley said that it was disgusting to see what happened at a hearing before the House Education committee on Tuesday, when the presidents of multiple major universities equivocated about disciplining students who call for the genocide of Jews." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "She added that the government should get rid of foreign money from universities and criticized Joe Biden for not including anti-Zionism in the definition of antisemitism." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "He then slammed Haley, who many GOP insiders say is quickly supplanting DeSantis as the most viable Trump alternative." | Negative | -54% Liberal |
| "He then slammed Haley, who many GOP insiders say is quickly supplanting DeSantis as the most viable Trump alternative." | Negative | -54% Liberal |
| "In Nikki, Vivek, and Kamala, Indian Americans Find Incomplete RepresentationHe continued his attacks against her: Nikki Haley's campaign launch video sounded like a woke Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light ad, talking about how she would kick in heels." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "In Nikki, Vivek, and Kamala, Indian Americans Find Incomplete RepresentationHe continued his attacks against her: Nikki Haley's campaign launch video sounded like a woke Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light ad, talking about how she would kick in heels." | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "In one of his sharpest criticisms of Trump thus far, DeSantis suggested Trump was unfit and too old for the presidency, saying, Father Time is undefeated; the idea that we're going to put someone up there that's almost 80 and there's going to be no effects for that, we all know that's not true." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "In one of his sharpest criticisms of Trump thus far, DeSantis suggested Trump was unfit and too old for the presidency, saying, Father Time is undefeated; the idea that we're going to put someone up there that's almost 80 and there's going to be no effects for that, we all know that's not true." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "In one of his sharpest criticisms of Trump thus far, DeSantis suggested Trump was unfit and too old for the presidency, saying, Father Time is undefeated; the idea that we're going to put someone up there that's almost 80 and there's going to be no effects for that, we all know that's not true." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "He suggested that Haley is fascist, eliciting boos from the crowd, and later accused the former ambassador to the United Nations of not knowing the names of Ukrainian provinces." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
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64% : She said some donors dislike her tough-on-China approach, the fact that she's signed anti-abortion bills, or her opposition to corporate bailouts.15% : He suggested that Haley is fascist, eliciting boos from the crowd, and later accused the former ambassador to the United Nations of not knowing the names of Ukrainian provinces.
*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.