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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
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| "Kelly defended Giffords while also noting that he was a gun owner and supporter of the Second Amendment." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "The bipartisan gun-control bill might help him, but chances are that Kelly will run this race as he did the last one, with a focus on issues such as jobs and border security rather than the one he's most famous for." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Mark Kelly made his name advocating for new gun laws after his wife was shot, but he didn't play a central role in the big Senate compromise that passed last night." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "His victorious 2020 campaign to fill the remainder of the late Senator John McCain's term gave Kelly a far more powerful platform to shape federal gun laws." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "He's made more national headlines breaking with the Biden administration on southern-border policy and touting legislation to ban members of Congress from trading stocks than he has in championing gun control." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "Kelly's arm's-length approach to gun control is also consistent with how he's handled the issue since he became a politician, according to Democrats who have worked with him." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "Kelly's absence from the formal talks is a surprise, especially considering that he is ruing this fall for a full Senate term in a race that could determine whether Democrats maintain control of the chamber." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Polls have consistently shown strong backing for the types of measures that Kelly supports and that are encompassed in the Senate legislation." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "After his wife's shooting, Kelly soon became one of the nation's most prominent advocates for gun-safety legislation, founding with her a political group named in her honor and devoted to the cause." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "He noted that a documentary featuring Kelly and Giffords is due out soon." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Yet as Congress prepares to enact the most significant gun-control bill in more than 25 years, Kelly is standing only at the periphery of the action." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "(Aides to Kelly said that he had kept in touch with fellow senators throughout the talks but noted that, despite his years of advocacy outside Congress, most of the other negotiators had more experience navigating the issue within the thorny political dynamics of the Senate.)" | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Kelly won't know which of three leading GOP contenders --" | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "But he has won admiration on the left simply by voting as a more loyal Democrat than Sinema, whose steadfast opposition to parts of Biden's agenda has enraged progressives in Arizona and could draw her a primary challenge in 2024." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "But he has won admiration on the left simply by voting as a more loyal Democrat than Sinema, whose steadfast opposition to parts of Biden's agenda has enraged progressives in Arizona and could draw her a primary challenge in 2024." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Senator Kelly worked with both Republicans and Democrats to shape the bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which will make our communities safer while protecting Arizonans' Second Amendment rights, Sarah Guggenheimer, a Kelly spokesperson, said in an email." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Senator Kelly worked with both Republicans and Democrats to shape the bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which will make our communities safer while protecting Arizonans' Second Amendment rights, Sarah Guggenheimer, a Kelly spokesperson, said in an email." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Democrats believe that Republicans would have been more reluctant to sign on if they saw the negotiation as an effort to boost Kelly, a top GOP target this fall." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "But if any single fact best explains Kelly's election to the Senate as a Democrat in 2020, it's that he is married to Gabby Giffords, the former representative who in 2011 was shot and severely wounded while she held a constituent event in Tucson." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Democratic operatives who have watched Kelly closely in Arizona told me that they were less surprised to see him take a low profile during the talks." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "A more delicate explanation is that Kelly's presence at the bargaining table during an election year might have hurt the chances for an agreement more than they would have helped." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Kelly defended Giffords while also noting that he was a gun owner and supporter of the Second Amendment." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Read: How bipartisan gun-control talks actually succeededWhen I asked Murphy, a lead sponsor of the new bill, why it was Sinema and not Kelly who took a leading role in the negotiations, he replied: I don't think I have the answer to that." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Read: How bipartisan gun-control talks actually succeededWhen I asked Murphy, a lead sponsor of the new bill, why it was Sinema and not Kelly who took a leading role in the negotiations, he replied: I don't think I have the answer to that." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Read: How bipartisan gun-control talks actually succeededWhen I asked Murphy, a lead sponsor of the new bill, why it was Sinema and not Kelly who took a leading role in the negotiations, he replied: I don't think I have the answer to that." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "And although recent election data have cast doubt on the popularity of those proposals, these operatives say that the distance that Kelly has kept from the gun-control talks in Washington is not due to a political calculation that the agreement would hurt his reelection chances." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Kelly has been far from silent on guns in the aftermath of the massacres in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, that prompted the latest push for new legislation." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Yet over the past month, Kelly has given no major speeches or press conferences on the topic." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "The bipartisan gun-control bill might help him, but chances are that Kelly will run this race as he did the last one, with a focus on issues such as jobs and border security rather than the one he's most famous for." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Instead, the leading Democrats behind the bill were Senator Chris Murphy of Coecticut and Kelly's Arizona colleague, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, who has forged close ties with Republicans in part because of her willingness to buck her own party." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Instead, the leading Democrats behind the bill were Senator Chris Murphy of Coecticut and Kelly's Arizona colleague, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, who has forged close ties with Republicans in part because of her willingness to buck her own party." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Instead, the leading Democrats behind the bill were Senator Chris Murphy of Coecticut and Kelly's Arizona colleague, Senator Kyrsten Sinema, who has forged close ties with Republicans in part because of her willingness to buck her own party." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Although Arizona has some of the nation's most permissive gun laws, Coughlin said that the incremental changes in the Senate compromise -- including an expansion of background checks for young adults and federal funding to implement red-flag laws -- were likely to be popular with voters and offered Kelly an opportunity to put Republicans on the defensive." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Kelly's decision not to wage a big public fight on guns could disappoint progressives who assumed that if anyone was going to seize the issue in the Senate, it would be him." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "One is that because Sinema has more seniority than Kelly in the Senate, he would likely defer to her as a negotiator, particularly given her deeper relationships with Republicans needed for a deal." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "One is that because Sinema has more seniority than Kelly in the Senate, he would likely defer to her as a negotiator, particularly given her deeper relationships with Republicans needed for a deal." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "None of the four main negotiators -- Murphy, Sinema, and Republican Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina -- is up for reelection this year; nor are most of the 20 senators who initially endorsed the deal." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "None of the four main negotiators -- Murphy, Sinema, and Republican Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina -- is up for reelection this year; nor are most of the 20 senators who initially endorsed the deal." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "None of the four main negotiators -- Murphy, Sinema, and Republican Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina -- is up for reelection this year; nor are most of the 20 senators who initially endorsed the deal." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "None of the four main negotiators -- Murphy, Sinema, and Republican Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina -- is up for reelection this year; nor are most of the 20 senators who initially endorsed the deal." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Mark Kelly made his name advocating for new gun laws after his wife was shot, but he didn't play a central role in the big Senate compromise that passed last night." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Of the 100 members of the United States Senate, none has a more intimate understanding of gun violence than Mark Kelly." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "His victorious 2020 campaign to fill the remainder of the late Senator John McCain's term gave Kelly a far more powerful platform to shape federal gun laws." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "His victorious 2020 campaign to fill the remainder of the late Senator John McCain's term gave Kelly a far more powerful platform to shape federal gun laws." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "He's made more national headlines breaking with the Biden administration on southern-border policy and touting legislation to ban members of Congress from trading stocks than he has in championing gun control." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "By keeping relatively quiet on guns, he said, Kelly could inoculate himself against charges that he was politizing his wife's tragedy while effectively daring the GOP to attack him." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "Kelly's arm's-length approach to gun control is also consistent with how he's handled the issue since he became a politician, according to Democrats who have worked with him." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "During the 2020 campaign, Kelly and his advisers reasoned that voters were already well aware of where he stood on gun violence, Chase Hardin, a former Kelly aide, told me, so they decided to focus instead on economic issues, like job creation and lowering prescription-drug costs, where his views were less widely known." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "During the 2020 campaign, Kelly and his advisers reasoned that voters were already well aware of where he stood on gun violence, Chase Hardin, a former Kelly aide, told me, so they decided to focus instead on economic issues, like job creation and lowering prescription-drug costs, where his views were less widely known." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Republicans tried to attack Kelly on guns during the final weeks of the campaign, with then-Senator Martha McSally accusing him during a debate of ruing a radical political organization -- a clunky reference to the gun-control group that Kelly launched with his wife." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Republicans tried to attack Kelly on guns during the final weeks of the campaign, with then-Senator Martha McSally accusing him during a debate of ruing a radical political organization -- a clunky reference to the gun-control group that Kelly launched with his wife." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Republicans tried to attack Kelly on guns during the final weeks of the campaign, with then-Senator Martha McSally accusing him during a debate of ruing a radical political organization -- a clunky reference to the gun-control group that Kelly launched with his wife." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
42% : Kelly defended Giffords while also noting that he was a gun owner and supporter of the Second Amendment.39% : The bipartisan gun-control bill might help him, but chances are that Kelly will run this race as he did the last one, with a focus on issues such as jobs and border security rather than the one he's most famous for.
33% : Mark Kelly made his name advocating for new gun laws after his wife was shot, but he didn't play a central role in the big Senate compromise that passed last night.
32% : His victorious 2020 campaign to fill the remainder of the late Senator John McCain's term gave Kelly a far more powerful platform to shape federal gun laws.
31% : He's made more national headlines breaking with the Biden administration on southern-border policy and touting legislation to ban members of Congress from trading stocks than he has in championing gun control.
28% : Kelly's arm's-length approach to gun control is also consistent with how he's handled the issue since he became a politician, according to Democrats who have worked with him.
*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.