Trump On His Game at CNN Town Hall

May 11, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -56% Very Liberal

  • Reliability

    35% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

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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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

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  •   Conservative
SentenceSentimentBias
"Trump dodged questions about the point at which he would ban abortion during pregnancy, deflecting by pointing to his record reshaping the courts and appointing the three Supreme Court justices who supplied the majority for overturning Roe v. Wade last year."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"In Wednesday's town hall, Trump refused to say whether he would support a federal ban on abortion at 15 weeks."
Negative
-58% Liberal
"When asked whether he had any regrets about the events that unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021 , They were there with love in their heart - that was unbelievable and it was a beautiful day, Trump said."
Positive
44% Conservative
"Trump's enduring popularity within the GOP was on display from the start of Wednesday's town hall in Manchester, N.H., with a live studio audience of mostly Republicans and some undeclared voters likely to vote in the party's 2024 presidential primary, the nation's first."
Positive
20% Conservative
"When a second question named six candidates, the overall result showed 51 percent support for Trump and 25 percent for DeSantis."
Positive
16% Conservative
"That's when I was president, Trump said."
Positive
10% Conservative
"His leading rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, is preparing to officially aounce his candidacy soon, with electability expected to be core to his message."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Trump said he was inclined to pardon a large portion of the Jan. 6 protesters and would do so early on in his second administration."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"I'm looking at a solution that's going to work, Trump said."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"It has been years since Trump faced an independent TV moderator or interviewer such as CNN's Collins."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"In the latest Washington Post-ABC national poll, an open-ended question that did not offer names of candidates found 43 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents volunteered Trump as their choice for the party's nomination, while 20 percent named DeSantis."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"A made-up story, Trump said."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"You might as well do it not because you'll do it later, Trump said."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Throughout the town hall, the campaign blasted out emails emphasizing Trump's policy proposals on energy, immigration, the economy and foreign policy."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"In response to questions about the federal spending and debt, Trump entertained the possibility of defaulting of government debt, which Collins pointed out economists warn could upend financial markets and trigger a recession."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Former president Donald Trump used his highly anticipated return to mainstream cable television news to give a broader swath of Americans an unvarnished view of what he has been saying at rallies and in media."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"The town hall came just a day after a New York jury concluded that Trump was liable for abusing and then defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Trump was indicted earlier this year in a hush-money scheme and pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Trump also refused to say whether he wanted Ukraine to win in their struggle against Russia, suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if he had been in the White House."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"He said Ashli Babbitt, the rioter killed by police trying to break into the House chamber, should not have been shot; denied that then-Vice President Mike Pence was in any danger; and repeated his promise to pardon participants in the event."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"The televised CNN town hall kicked off with Trump repeatedly refusing to accept his defeat in the 2020 election and defending his supporters."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"I don't think in terms of wiing and losing, I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people, Trump said."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"He blamed then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for lapses in security, suggesting that he had quickly offered soldiers to officials at the Capitol for their protection."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"When you look at what happened during that election, unless you're a very stupid person, you see what happened, Trump said in response to CNN host Kaitlan Collins's opening question asking him to accept the 2020 results."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"Trump said: If you say he's a war criminal is going to be a lot tougher to make a deal to get this thing stopped."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"Some audience members applauded for Trump's claims about election fraud."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"When vigorously pressed on why he had kept classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, Trump called Collins a nasty person."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"When an independent voter named Scott Dustin asked Trump whether he would suspend polarizing talk of election fraud during the 2024 election race, Trump demurred: Yes, unless I see election fraud."
Negative
-56% Liberal
"When an independent voter named Scott Dustin asked Trump whether he would suspend polarizing talk of election fraud during the 2024 election race, Trump demurred: Yes, unless I see election fraud."
Negative
-56% Liberal
"In Wednesday's town hall, Trump refused to say whether he would support a federal ban on abortion at 15 weeks."
Negative
-32% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : Trump dodged questions about the point at which he would ban abortion during pregnancy, deflecting by pointing to his record reshaping the courts and appointing the three Supreme Court justices who supplied the majority for overturning Roe v. Wade last year.
21% : In Wednesday's town hall, Trump refused to say whether he would support a federal ban on abortion at 15 weeks.

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