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Trump's microphone trouble in Milwaukee prompted viral posts with lewd angle

  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    45% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -61% Negative

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-44% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : ""There's nothing worse than, I walk in like this, and I'm bending -- you notice, I was bending over like this," Trump said, again stooping with his mouth agape.
33% : But then, Trump, 78, who has made a point to remind his supporters how hard he has been campaigning without a break, acknowledged that holding the microphone for so long was tiring.
33% : "Way too low," Trump said, swatting the microphone stand away.
27% : After his microphone was replaced, Trump tried to return to his standard stump speech.
24% : The signs in the crowd said "Trump will fix it," but former President Donald Trump grew increasingly exasperated Friday night at a rally in Milwaukee when he experienced technical difficulties with his microphone.
13% : The question kicked off a four-minute rant about his technical issues in which Trump grew steadily angrier."It's a pretty stupid situation, but that's OK," 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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