Why Biden needs a "border wall"

Dec 11, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • 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

18% Positive

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  •   Conservative
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"For one thing, Congressional Republicans demand action on the massive flows of migrants at the southern border as a condition of approving new aid for Ukraine, which is a top Biden priority."
Positive
42% Conservative
"Earlier this year, he embraced the Bidenomics label Yahoo Finance and other media outlets use to describe his all of government policies for subsidizing green energy, semiconductors and other favored industries and rebuilding American supply chains."
Positive
4% Conservative
"This, too, masked reality, as border crossings ticked up during Trump's second year in office, then surged in 2019 -- as construction of Trump's wall was actually underway."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Immigration is also one of Biden's weakest issues."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Trump's umbrella slogan, of course, is Make America Great Again."
Positive
48% Conservative
"For one thing, Congressional Republicans demand action on the massive flows of migrants at the southern border as a condition of approving new aid for Ukraine, which is a top Biden priority."
Positive
18% Conservative
"That has wondrous elasticity because it allows voters to imagine Trump will return the country to whatever state each individual considers to have been the glory days, whether it was 1955, 1988 or something else."
Positive
28% Conservative
"Heading into the fourth year of his presidency, Joe Biden sees new urgency to make a big move on immigration."
Positive
16% Conservative
"On the economy, Biden speaks frequently, ticking off one success after another on job gains, factory openings, new union contracts."
Positive
10% Conservative
"So building credibility on immigration could be crucial to Biden's reelection effort."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Job growth under Biden is the strongest under any president ever, and the unemployment rate is a super low 3.7"
Positive
0% Conservative
"The principle of America First drives Trump's economic policies."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Yet the crush of newcomers has gotten so intense that even Democratic governors and mayors have begun to plead with Biden for help."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Republicans want to make it harder for migrants to claim asylum status, and Biden could go along with that."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"We'll call you when there's an opening?Even if there is a deal to fix the problems, it's hard to foresee voters crediting Biden with any improvements."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Biden's approval rating on the economy, at 37"
Negative
-8% Liberal
"To be fair to Biden, his plan was to enforce immigration laws more gently than Trump."
Positive
4% Conservative
"To be fair to Biden, his plan was to enforce immigration laws more gently than Trump."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Biden appears open to that, and has reportedly gotten involved in negotiations himself."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"But Trump is a marketing genius whose flair for branding helped him get elected against all odds in 2016, and could help him beat Biden in 2024 despite two impeachments, 91 pending criminal charges and a string of never-ending controversies."
Positive
6% Conservative
"But Trump is a marketing genius whose flair for branding helped him get elected against all odds in 2016, and could help him beat Biden in 2024 despite two impeachments, 91 pending criminal charges and a string of never-ending controversies."
Positive
6% Conservative
"If six months from now Biden could brag about a sharp decline in border encounters and a new-and-improved immigration system, voters getting their information from cable news or social media would still probably worry about an open border."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"Biden's whole approach to immigration is one of nuance: Treat it as foreign-policy matter attributable to the root cause of failing governments in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and other places where the migrants come from."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Immigration is also one of Biden's weakest issues."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"Even now, voters rate Trump ahead of Biden on immigration by 23 points, and Republicans ahead of Democrats on the issue by 30 points."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Even now, voters rate Trump ahead of Biden on immigration by 23 points, and Republicans ahead of Democrats on the issue by 30 points."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Voters rate immigration a top-five issue, and the moderate swing voters Biden needs to win reelection next year care more about it than Democrats likely to vote for Biden no matter what."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Voters rate immigration a top-five issue, and the moderate swing voters Biden needs to win reelection next year care more about it than Democrats likely to vote for Biden no matter what."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Yet Biden seems likely to face the same problem on immigration that he faces on the economy:"
Negative
-22% Liberal
"The Trump tariffs added to Americans' costs and lowered growth."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Biden has also had to deal with a post-Covid boom in migration and the end of Covid-era emergency measures that led to automatic expulsion for about half of all migrants crossing the southwest border for three years, starting in 2020."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"So what could Biden do?"
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Yet Biden gets no love from voters."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Biden tried some branding on his economic plan."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Nobody should emulate Trump's dishonesty, his authoritarian tendencies, his vulgarity or his contempt for legalities."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Do voters remember that illegal crossings went up under Trump?"
Negative
-26% Liberal
"What Biden may really need, however, is his own border wall: A simple symbol that conveys his determination to fix the problem."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"But Trump's insistence to the contrary persuaded a lot of people and created room for him to carry out misguided policy that otherwise might have been ruinous for him."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"How do you brand that, without evoking Trump's meaess?"
Negative
-36% Liberal
"That could change if inflation continues to decline, yet Biden's weak standing on the economy reveals a notable deficiency that may weaken him on other issues: He lacks crisp branding."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Moving public opinion on contentious issues is a dark art that Biden, for better or worse, doesn't practice."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"What does Joe Biden stand for?He's liberal but not a leftist like Bernie Sanders."
Negative
-50% Liberal
"What does Joe Biden stand for?He's liberal but not a leftist like Bernie Sanders."
Negative
-50% Liberal
"Biden could be excused if he borrowed from President Donald Trump's playbook."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Biden could be excused if he borrowed from President Donald Trump's playbook."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Biden's approval rating remained depressed, and Biden has since backed away from the term."
Negative
-62% Liberal
"Biden's approval rating remained depressed, and Biden has since backed away from the term."
Negative
-62% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : For one thing, Congressional Republicans demand action on the massive flows of migrants at the southern border as a condition of approving new aid for Ukraine, which is a top Biden priority.
52% : Earlier this year, he embraced the "Bidenomics" label Yahoo Finance and other media outlets use to describe his "all of government" policies for subsidizing green energy, semiconductors and other favored industries and rebuilding American supply chains.
49% : This, too, masked reality, as border crossings ticked up during Trump's second year in office, then surged in 2019 -- as construction of Trump's wall was actually underway.
42% : Immigration is also one of Biden's weakest issues.

*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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