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Will control of Congress shift? The results hinge on a handful of states and races

Nov 02, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -32% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : A GOP Senate would be a gift for Trump but likely tough for Vice President Kamala Harris.
59% : "I think there are a lot of Republican senators who want to see some real limits to that, who still think of themselves as basically in favor of free trade and making sure that American businesses don't find themselves on the wrong end of a trade war," Wallach said.
40% : Trump regaining the presidency along with GOP control of Congress would give the party at least two chances to use the complex budget reconciliation process to pass certain legislation.
40% : Budget reconciliation is the process Republicans used to try to repeal and replace the 2010 health care law that's often referred to as the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, during Trump's first term in office.
37% : Trump and a Republican Senate would likely agree on some nominees and policy goals, though there would be significant differences over issues like tariffs.
36% : "I think it's a very live possibility that there could be a much more confrontational kind of dynamic this time around, in part, because Trump and some of the people right around him have this idea that playing nicely in 2017 was a big mistake," Wallach said.
24% : Trump in the White House and Democrats holding onto at least one chamber in Congress could also force bipartisan compromise, though likely with a far different tone and approach than under a Harris-Republican Congress scenario.

*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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