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'60 Minutes' Says Donald Trump's Campaign Offered "Shifting Explanations" For Backing Out Of Election Special; Show Airs With Kamala Harris Sit Down

  • Bias Rating

    38% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -8% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : But at the start of tonight's broadcast, Scott Pelley told viewers that Trump was to have done the interview on Thursday at Mar-A-Lago, and that the show had agreed to meet Trump at his Butler, PA rally, which happened last weekend.
45% : According to the show, Trump backed out of the interview.
32% : While noting that the number of border crossings have decreased significantly since President Joe Biden cracked down on asylum seekers, Whitaker asked, "If that's the right answer now, why didn't your administration take those steps in 2021?"Harris noted that Trump killed a bipartisan border security bill earlier this year, but Whitaker then asked, "There was an historic flood of undocumented immigrants coming across the border the first three years of your administration.
26% : Later, Pelley said, the campaign told them that Trump "needed an apology for his interview in 2020.
23% : "Trump has said his opponent doesn't do interviews because she can't handle them.
18% : "Four years ago, Trump cut short a contentious interview with 60 Minutes and its correspondent Lesley Stahl.

*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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