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Will Joe Biden and Donald Trump debate this fall? News outlets call on candidates to compete

Apr 14, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    96% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Three presidential forums, scheduled by the non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates, are set to kick off at Texas State University in San Marco, Texas, on Sept. 16.
43% : Biden's campaign had not yet committed to any debates, but on Thursday said that Trump is playing politics with his request.
36% : "President Trump is willing to debate anytime, anyplace, and anywhere - and the time to start these debates is now," a letter from the Trump campaign said.
34% : Trump had refused to debate his opponents in the Republican primary.
30% : "While the letter did not name any specific candidates, Biden and Trump locked down their party's nominations earlier this year.
9% : Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called Donald Trump "Donald Duck" at the GOP presidential debate where Trump was visibly absent.

*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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