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Trump and Republicans bet big on anti-trans ads across the country

  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    42% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -20% Negative

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.

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Overall Sentiment

-8% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : But now Trump has shifted significant resources to move that message far beyond his most fervent fans.
57% : Terry Schilling, the group's president, said that in a dozen focus groups it conducted last year, it found that when it introduced the issue of minors and gender identity, liberal women were much less comfortable than they were with any other issue.
34% : "Attacks on what Trump calls "transgender insanity" have reliably been one of his loudest applause lines at his rallies.
30% : "She wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison," Trump said at their debate last month.
23% : "One of the things you see in the focus groups is the moms get really visibly angry on this issue," said Jim McLaughlin, a Republican pollster who works for Trump and other Republican campaigns.

*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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