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Sen. Joni Ernst says she'll vote to confirm Hegseth as defense secretary

  • Bias Rating

    -12% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    90% ReliableExcellent

  • Policy Leaning

    -20% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -5% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : Trump announced Hegseth as his pick for the Pentagon in November, calling him "tough, smart and a true believer in America first.""Nobody fights harder for the Troops, and Pete will be a courageous and patriotic champion of our 'Peace through Strength' policy," Trump said.
40% : In an interview with Simon Conway on WHO New Radio 1040, Ernst said she supports Hegseth's stance of purging so-called woke issues and leadership from the Department of Defense, highlighting the false claim of the Biden administration focusing on electric tanks.

*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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