If Trump wins, he'll be a vessel for the most regressive figures in US politics | Katrina vanden Heuvel

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : As was the case during his first term, Trump will serve as a vessel for some of the most regressive figures in American politics.
53% : Despite all of this, Trump is leading Biden in many polls.
45% : If Trump and his extremist cronies prevail in 2024, Project 2025 will be under way this time next year, stripping millions of Americans of our freedoms.
42% : They want to dismantle the administrative state, ban abortion completely at the state and federal level, and, as always, cut taxes for the rich.
38% : Russell Vought, a radical involved with Project 2025 who speaks with Trump at least twice a month, is a candidate to be the next White House chief of staff.
31% : It is also a harbinger of what a second Donald Trump presidency would bring, influenced by a consortium of self-proclaimed Christian nationalists and reactionary dark money groups like the Heritage Foundation who see Trump as their return ticket to relevancy.
28% : Media coverage of Trump tends to focus on his mounting legal woes (nearly half a billion in damages and counting) and increasingly bizarre rants (magnets don't work underwater).
20% : As Trump himself said in an alarmingly theocratic speech last week: "No one will be touching the cross of Christ under the Trump administration, I swear to you."

*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.