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Trump microphone cuts out for 20 minutes at Detroit rally

  • Bias Rating

    44% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -35% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

84% : Trump was in the midst of speaking about his tariff policy at the event on Friday, about to call it "the most beautiful word in the dictionary," before the microphone went down.
63% : The crowd remained cheery during the interlude while Trump paced around the stage, chanting at times and waiting for the rally to resume.
44% : Trump continued his speech and laid out his economic agenda, saying his administration will cut corporate taxes, energy costs and regulations if they make their products in the U.S. and hire American workers.
33% : Trump argued that he is not a "protectionist" as some would say but just "pro-worker.
28% : and then we'll have a story that Trump didn't pay the bill to a contractor.
27% : "Trump has previously vowed not to pay a company when a tech issue has happened during his rally, including in June when a problem occurred with his teleprompter in Las Vegas.
15% : After the microphone started working again, Trump opened by saying, "Now what happens is I won't pay the bill for this stupid company that rented us this crap.""I won't pay the bill
14% : Hundreds of contractors who have worked for Trump in the past said ahead of his 2016 election that Trump had not paid them over the years.

*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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