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How Putin views the choice between Harris and Trump, and what the election means for Russia

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -26% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : "ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWBut he added that on the whole, Trump "is probably their preference; he's more of a known quantity.
53% : During their debate, Trump twice refused to directly answer whether he wanted Ukraine to win the war, while Harris praised Western support for Kyiv and urged it to continue.
49% : Harris, the current vice president, has taken a hard line against Russia, while Trump, the former president, is known for his admiration of Putin.
44% : Trump has bragged that his rapport with Putin and respect from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are so strong that he could negotiate an end to the war "in 24 hours."
42% : While in office, Trump called for a new nuclear pact that would include both Russia and China.
41% : Trump has wrestled with other members of the NATO alliance, demanding that they meet the agreed spending levels for their militaries in their national budgets.
39% : "ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWTrump has called for a bill declaring there to be only two genders and pledged to keep transgender women out of women's sports -- positions that parallel how Russia under Putin has rolled back LGBTQ+ rights and lauded "traditional values.
32% : Trump, although he has warned of the threat of "nuclear warming," took steps while in office to dismantle the arms control regime, including pulling out of the INF Treaty on intermediate-range nuclear weapons -- which banned ground-based nuclear and conventional missiles with a range of 500-5,500 kilometers (310-3,410 miles),
30% : Trump also has questioned the NATO charter's mutual-defense clause, asking in an interview why the United States should be obliged to defend the "very aggressive people" of NATO member Montenegro.
29% : Those terms would be anathema to Kyiv, but Trump has shown little sympathy for Ukraine, saying Zelenskyy "should never have let that war start.
25% : Still, at the September gathering, Putin complained that when Trump was in office, there were "so many restrictions and sanctions against Russia like no other president has ever introduced before him.
19% : "Trump put off comment for days, then did not connect Putin to the matter.

*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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