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Live Updates: Speaker of the House voting set to begin as Johnson tries to keep his job

Jan 03, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -6% Center

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -36% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    8% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

88% : "I respect and support President Trump, but his endorsement of Mike Johnson is going to work out about as well as his endorsement of Speaker Paul Ryan," Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., wrote on X Monday.
84% : Trump advocates for Speaker Mike Johnson as Congress convenes President-elect Trump expressed his support for House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday, as the new Congress convenes and stands poised to pick a new speaker.
61% : Trump was unequivocal in his support in a post on Truth Social.
48% : Johnson was elected to Congress in 2016, and before he served as speaker he was the No. 5 ranking House Republican as the conference's vice chair.
38% : President-elect Donald Trump endorsed Johnson for speaker in a Truth Social post Monday, calling the Louisiana Republican "a good, hard working, religious man." "He will do the right thing, and we will continue to WIN," Trump wrote.
37% : Trump has made public statements and is privately lobbying lawmakers, Johnson 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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