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Fetterman to be first sitting Democratic U.S. senator to visit Trump at Mar-a-Lago

Jan 09, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    2% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The trip will mark the first known time a sitting Democratic U.S. senator is meeting with Trump at his Palm Beach residence since the election.
55% : "Trump met with the Democratic mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel Bowser, last month to talk about the inauguration and his second term, her office said in a statement.
48% : Trump aides have also talked about meeting with some other Democratic members of Congress about the State and Local tax -- or SALT -- the tax deduction that allows taxpayers to deduct all or part of their state or local tax but is capped for individual taxpayers at $10,000.
42% : Trump won Pennsylvania's 19 electoral votes in November, after losing the state to President Biden in 2020.
40% : Trump also hopes Fetterman will support some of his nominees, including Pete Hegseth for defense secretary, a source said.
29% : Rep. Pat Ryan, a Democrat from New York, has urged Trump to include Democrats in talks on capping the federal deduction.
17% : "Fetterman has proven to be open to some proposals Trump has floated, even though most Democrats have immediately dismissed them.
4% : Trump campaigned against Fetterman in 2022, at one point falsely claiming that the then-lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania used illegal drugs including cocaine, heroin and fentanyl.

*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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