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In 2018, Trump hesitated to give aid to California amid wildfires

Oct 03, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -2% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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-18% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : Troye said she sometimes had to enlist Vice President Mike Pence's help to sway Trump.
33% : According to E&E News, Trump had to be convinced to send federal disaster aid to California in 2018, when the state was plagued with deadly wildfires that killed more than 100.
13% : "Another former Trump official, Olivia Troye, said she fielded calls from panicked local officials to whom Trump had denied aid.
9% : Former Trump resiliency policy director Mark Harvey told the outlet that Trump was worried about sending aid to the deep-blue state until he pulled voter data showing that Trump had more support in Orange County, California than Iowa.

*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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