Why the 2024 election is about far more than Trump's legal nightmare

  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

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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

3% Positive

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"As the justices retired to consider an opinion expected in the summer, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris held a rare joint appearance in North Carolina - a key state they're hoping to peel away from Trump this fall as the president plays defense in a handful of other battlegrounds, including his blue wall in the Midwest."
Positive
16% Conservative
"And in an aside that confirmed that Biden's campaign also sees a chance to irk Trump with mockery, the president told guests at a fundraiser in North Carolina, I'd be happy to compare physical characteristics ... granted, I don't have his orange hair, according to journalists in the room."
Positive
10% Conservative
"They're seeking to build momentum behind an argument that if Trump and Republicans can consolidate total power in Washington, they will tear down benefits Americans have enjoyed for more than a decade under the Affordable Care Act."
Positive
4% Conservative
"President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, meanwhile, opened a new assault on Trump over health care, while trying to make a play for North Carolina."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Alexis McGill Johnson, the president of Plaed Parenthood, said that abortion was already a decisive issue in the 2024 election."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"While Trump has turned his presidential bid into an arm of his legal defense in multiple cases and will spend weeks sitting in courtrooms, Biden has used a post-State of the Union tour of battleground states to roll out a more conventional campaign."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Increasingly, Democratic strategists are warning that a vote for Keedy is in effect a vote for Trump."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"But Trump renewed his familiar line that he would build something better and cheaper than Obamacare - a refrain he often used in his presidency while doing almost nothing policy-wise to construct an alternative system."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"As the ex-president tries to ride a narrative of personal political persecution through his criminal trial quagmire back to the White House, other substantial political forces are gathering that could be equally critical to November's election."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"The New York judge in the hush money case imposed a gag order on Trump on Tuesday, limiting what he can say about potential witnesses, among others, in next month's trial."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"While the justices seemed inclined to allow continued access to mifepristone on Tuesday, the fact the case reached the top bench shows how a conservative shift in the judicial system engineered under Trump has the capacity to change life in the US."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"The Biden campaign was quick to react, putting the blame for lost fertility treatments squarely on Trump and warning that voters had sent the ex-president and extreme MAGA Republicans a clear message: they know exactly who's to blame for restricting their ability to decide how and when to build their families and they're ready to fight back."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"His goal is to take votes from President Biden to help elect Donald Trump, and we can't let it happen, Pesylvania Democratic Lt. Gov. Austin Davis told CNN."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"The massive baggage that Trump will take into the general election may depend on whether he is convicted in the hush money case and whether three other trials - two over his 2020 election interference and one related to his hoarding of classified documents - survive his delaying tactics."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"And he's implicitly arguing he's making Americans' lives better while Trump is consumed by his web of criminal and civil legal complications."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"But Trump also vented fury after a judge set his criminal trial for April 15 in a case arising from a hush money payment to an adult film star."
Negative
-48% Liberal
"The same cliffhanger math applies to a race including Keedy as it does to a two-way clash between Trump and Biden."
Negative
-56% Liberal
"Many Democratic strategists fear that the environmentalist who has promoted anti-vaccine conspiracy theories could woo some Democratic voters disaffected with Biden's presidency and let Trump back into the White House by default."
Negative
-66% Liberal
"Trump also appears to recognize his vulnerability on health care - at least after he seemed to walk into a Democratic trap while musing last year that he was looking for alternatives to President Barack Obama's signature health care law."
Negative
-78% Liberal
"Donald Trump killed Roe v. Wade, Biden warned Tuesday, accusing his predecessor and the conservative high court majority he built of sowing chaos."
Negative
-86% Liberal
"As the justices retired to consider an opinion expected in the summer, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris held a rare joint appearance in North Carolina - a key state they're hoping to peel away from Trump this fall as the president plays defense in a handful of other battlegrounds, including his blue wall in the Midwest."
Positive
14% Conservative
"As the justices retired to consider an opinion expected in the summer, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris held a rare joint appearance in North Carolina - a key state they're hoping to peel away from Trump this fall as the president plays defense in a handful of other battlegrounds, including his blue wall in the Midwest."
Positive
14% Conservative
"And in an aside that confirmed that Biden's campaign also sees a chance to irk Trump with mockery, the president told guests at a fundraiser in North Carolina, I'd be happy to compare physical characteristics ... granted, I don't have his orange hair, according to journalists in the room."
Positive
2% Conservative
"And in an aside that confirmed that Biden's campaign also sees a chance to irk Trump with mockery, the president told guests at a fundraiser in North Carolina, I'd be happy to compare physical characteristics ... granted, I don't have his orange hair, according to journalists in the room."
Positive
2% Conservative
"They're seeking to build momentum behind an argument that if Trump and Republicans can consolidate total power in Washington, they will tear down benefits Americans have enjoyed for more than a decade under the Affordable Care Act."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"And the persistent trend of significant numbers of Republicans voting for former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in party primaries - even after she shelved her campaign earlier this month - hints at softness in Trump's support."
Positive
4% Conservative
"And the persistent trend of significant numbers of Republicans voting for former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in party primaries - even after she shelved her campaign earlier this month - hints at softness in Trump's support."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Political drama from Washington to North Carolina and California on Tuesday highlighted an already intense campaign ahead of a rematch between the presumptive Republican nominee and President Joe Biden."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Tuesday's campaign developments follow another day of extraordinary drama in Trump's staggering array of legal cases."
Positive
0% Conservative
"President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, meanwhile, opened a new assault on Trump over health care, while trying to make a play for North Carolina."
Positive
0% Conservative
"President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, meanwhile, opened a new assault on Trump over health care, while trying to make a play for North Carolina."
Positive
0% Conservative
"And independent candidate Robert F. Keedy Jr. named a ruing mate - adding to fears among Democrats he could syphon votes away from Biden in November."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"In California, meanwhile, another threat to Biden's hopes of a second term was in the spotlight."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"(Biden road-tested a new quip on Tuesday as he seeks to deflect this worry with humor, telling an audience: I know I'm only 40 years old, times two, plus one.)"
Negative
-10% Liberal
"His campaign, for example, seized on Trump's angry news conference after his Monday court appearance to brand him as feeble, confused and tired - and therefore unfit for a return to the Oval Office."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"The rift is a sign that for his political aspirations, as much as for humanitarian reasons, Biden needs the war to end soon."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"While Trump has turned his presidential bid into an arm of his legal defense in multiple cases and will spend weeks sitting in courtrooms, Biden has used a post-State of the Union tour of battleground states to roll out a more conventional campaign."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"While Trump has turned his presidential bid into an arm of his legal defense in multiple cases and will spend weeks sitting in courtrooms, Biden has used a post-State of the Union tour of battleground states to roll out a more conventional campaign."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"His vulnerabilities help explain why Democrats are banking so much on the abortion issue and why they will seize on events like Tuesday's Supreme Court arguments and Trump's equivocations on national abortion limits."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Following the deaths of more than 30,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, Biden has been repeatedly interrupted at his events by voters angry at Israel's assault on Gaza in response to last fall's Hamas terrorist attacks."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Increasingly, Democratic strategists are warning that a vote for Keedy is in effect a vote for Trump."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"But Trump renewed his familiar line that he would build something better and cheaper than Obamacare - a refrain he often used in his presidency while doing almost nothing policy-wise to construct an alternative system."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"The New York judge in the hush money case imposed a gag order on Trump on Tuesday, limiting what he can say about potential witnesses, among others, in next month's trial."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Following Biden's attacks on Tuesday, the presumptive GOP nominee took to his Truth Social site and insisted, I'm not ruing to terminate the ACA, while complaining that his rival disinformates and misinformates all the time."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"While the justices seemed inclined to allow continued access to mifepristone on Tuesday, the fact the case reached the top bench shows how a conservative shift in the judicial system engineered under Trump has the capacity to change life in the US."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"The Biden campaign was quick to react, putting the blame for lost fertility treatments squarely on Trump and warning that voters had sent the ex-president and extreme MAGA Republicans a clear message: they know exactly who's to blame for restricting their ability to decide how and when to build their families and they're ready to fight back."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"His goal is to take votes from President Biden to help elect Donald Trump, and we can't let it happen, Pesylvania Democratic Lt. Gov. Austin Davis told CNN."
Positive
2% Conservative
"His goal is to take votes from President Biden to help elect Donald Trump, and we can't let it happen, Pesylvania Democratic Lt. Gov. Austin Davis told CNN."
Positive
2% Conservative
"There were fresh signs this week that Biden is becoming more aggressive in seeking to exploit Trump's problems."
Positive
6% Conservative
"There were fresh signs this week that Biden is becoming more aggressive in seeking to exploit Trump's problems."
Positive
6% Conservative
"In recent days, relations have cratered between Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the president hardened opposition to a plaed Israeli offensive in southern Gaza."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"The massive baggage that Trump will take into the general election may depend on whether he is convicted in the hush money case and whether three other trials - two over his 2020 election interference and one related to his hoarding of classified documents - survive his delaying tactics."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"After the Dobbs decision electrified voters who stalled a red Republican wave in the 2022 midterms, Biden is leveraging the issue - and Trump's recent floating of a 15-week national ban on abortion - to try to invigorate Democrats, independents and moderate Republicans again."
Positive
2% Conservative
"After the Dobbs decision electrified voters who stalled a red Republican wave in the 2022 midterms, Biden is leveraging the issue - and Trump's recent floating of a 15-week national ban on abortion - to try to invigorate Democrats, independents and moderate Republicans again."
Positive
2% Conservative
"The only purpose of Robert Keedy ruing is to be a spoiler."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"And he's implicitly arguing he's making Americans' lives better while Trump is consumed by his web of criminal and civil legal complications."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"But Trump also vented fury after a judge set his criminal trial for April 15 in a case arising from a hush money payment to an adult film star."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"There are extremists in our country, trying to take away health coverage, or make it more expensive, Harris said in the state, which Biden lost by about 1 point in 2020 and is home to 16 precious electoral votes."
Negative
-54% Liberal
"There are extremists in our country, trying to take away health coverage, or make it more expensive, Harris said in the state, which Biden lost by about 1 point in 2020 and is home to 16 precious electoral votes."
Negative
-54% Liberal
"The same cliffhanger math applies to a race including Keedy as it does to a two-way clash between Trump and Biden."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"The same cliffhanger math applies to a race including Keedy as it does to a two-way clash between Trump and Biden."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"But there's also a question of whether Trump's liabilities will be countered by Biden's problems."
Positive
10% Conservative
"But there's also a question of whether Trump's liabilities will be countered by Biden's problems."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Many Democratic strategists fear that the environmentalist who has promoted anti-vaccine conspiracy theories could woo some Democratic voters disaffected with Biden's presidency and let Trump back into the White House by default."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Many Democratic strategists fear that the environmentalist who has promoted anti-vaccine conspiracy theories could woo some Democratic voters disaffected with Biden's presidency and let Trump back into the White House by default."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Trump also appears to recognize his vulnerability on health care - at least after he seemed to walk into a Democratic trap while musing last year that he was looking for alternatives to President Barack Obama's signature health care law."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Trump also appears to recognize his vulnerability on health care - at least after he seemed to walk into a Democratic trap while musing last year that he was looking for alternatives to President Barack Obama's signature health care law."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Donald Trump killed Roe v. Wade, Biden warned Tuesday, accusing his predecessor and the conservative high court majority he built of sowing chaos."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Donald Trump killed Roe v. Wade, Biden warned Tuesday, accusing his predecessor and the conservative high court majority he built of sowing chaos."
Negative
-6% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : "As the justices retired to consider an opinion expected in the summer, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris held a rare joint appearance in North Carolina - a key state they're hoping to peel away from Trump this fall as the president plays defense in a handful of other battlegrounds, including his blue wall in the Midwest.
55% : And in an aside that confirmed that Biden's campaign also sees a chance to irk Trump with mockery, the president told guests at a fundraiser in North Carolina, "I'd be happy to compare physical characteristics ... granted, I don't have his orange hair," according to journalists in the room.
52% : They're seeking to build momentum behind an argument that if Trump and Republicans can consolidate total power in Washington, they will tear down benefits Americans have enjoyed for more than a decade under the Affordable Care Act.
46% : President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, meanwhile, opened a new assault on Trump over health care, while trying to make a play for North Carolina.
44% : Alexis McGill Johnson, the president of Planned Parenthood, said that abortion was already a decisive issue in the 2024 election.
39% : While Trump has turned his presidential bid into an arm of his legal defense in multiple cases and will spend weeks sitting in courtrooms, Biden has used a post-State of the Union tour of battleground states to roll out a more conventional campaign.
37% : Increasingly, Democratic strategists are warning that a vote for Kennedy is in effect a vote for Trump.
37% : "But Trump renewed his familiar line that he would build something better and cheaper than Obamacare - a refrain he often used in his presidency while doing almost nothing policy-wise to construct an alternative system.
36% : As the ex-president tries to ride a narrative of personal political persecution through his criminal trial quagmire back to the White House, other substantial political forces are gathering that could be equally critical to November's election.
36% : The New York judge in the hush money case imposed a gag order on Trump on Tuesday, limiting what he can say about potential witnesses, among others, in next month's trial.
32% : While the justices seemed inclined to allow continued access to mifepristone on Tuesday, the fact the case reached the top bench shows how a conservative shift in the judicial system engineered under Trump has the capacity to change life in the US.
32% : The Biden campaign was quick to react, putting the blame for lost fertility treatments squarely on Trump and warning that voters had sent the ex-president and "extreme MAGA Republicans a clear message: they know exactly who's to blame for restricting their ability to decide how and when to build their families and they're ready to fight back.
32% : His goal is to take votes from President Biden to help elect Donald Trump, and we can't let it happen," Pennsylvania Democratic Lt. Gov. Austin Davis told CNN.
31% : The massive baggage that Trump will take into the general election may depend on whether he is convicted in the hush money case and whether three other trials - two over his 2020 election interference and one related to his hoarding of classified documents - survive his delaying tactics.
27% : And he's implicitly arguing he's making Americans' lives better while Trump is consumed by his web of criminal and civil legal complications.
26% : But Trump also vented fury after a judge set his criminal trial for April 15 in a case arising from a hush money payment to an adult film star.
22% : The same cliffhanger math applies to a race including Kennedy as it does to a two-way clash between Trump and Biden.
17% : Many Democratic strategists fear that the environmentalist who has promoted anti-vaccine conspiracy theories could woo some Democratic voters disaffected with Biden's presidency and let Trump back into the White House by default.
11% : "Trump also appears to recognize his vulnerability on health care - at least after he seemed to walk into a Democratic trap while musing last year that he was looking for alternatives to President Barack Obama's signature health care law.
7% : "Donald Trump killed Roe v. Wade," Biden warned Tuesday, accusing his predecessor and the conservative high court majority he built of sowing chaos.

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