Washington Post Article Rating

Trump seeks to rally support after possible second assassination attempt

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -23% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : "Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said that if Trump was still president, "we would have had the entire golf course surrounded.
51% : The July 13 shooting helped rally Republicans behind Trump and seize political momentum just before he formally accepted the GOP nomination.
50% : "Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a close Trump ally, also said he spoke with Trump.
46% : Trump was golfing at his West Palm Beach, Fla., club on Sunday when a Secret Service agent spotted a man with a rifle with a scope in the tree line, officials said.
46% : Early in the evening, Trump had yet to write anything about it on Truth Social, his social media site where he posts prolifically.
45% : "House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he and his wife spent "a few hours" with Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the shooting.
40% : "Trump and his campaign said little about the Sunday golf course incident in the hours immediately afterward.
36% : "Trump also called for unity after the rally shooting in Pennsylvania and praised law enforcement repeatedly for protecting him.
33% : Johnson wrote on social media that he and his wife "are thanking God for protecting [Trump] today -- once again," and said, "No leader in American history has endured more attacks and remained so strong and resilient.
32% : "Pray for President Trump" trended as well as "Staged" -- as some social media users promoted the baseless claim the golf course incident was staged.Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, said on social media that she was briefed on the matter and glad Trump is safe.
23% : Trump was uninjured, according to his campaign.
22% : Investigators have not pinpointed what drove the now-deceased shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, who had pictures of both Biden and Trump on his phone and did not show signs of a political motive.
12% : He shared a video in which Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) calls Trump "a threat to our democracy" and says, "we together must do everything in our power to defeat Trump and his MAGA allies this November."
8% : "Trump's top campaign advisers, Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, called the suspect an "evil monster" in an email to campaign staff and said no one on the golf course or accompanying Trump was hurt.
7% : And he did not push back when a right-wing podcast host, Monica Crowley, accused government agencies of "slow-walking" evidence and asked Trump, "Does it look increasingly to you like this was a suspicious, maybe even inside job?""It's very suspicious," Trump said.

*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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