Newsweek Article Rating

Kamala Harris' and Donald Trump's debate styles compared

  • Bias Rating

    44% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    20% ReliablePoor

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -22% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : Harris and Trump are set to meet for the first time in person at an ABC News-moderated debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, exactly eight weeks before Election Day and just over seven weeks after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris following his disastrous June 27 debate with Trump.
45% : Meanwhile, Trump is rarely at a loss for words while speaking publicly.
42% : Liberman found that Trump spoke at a rate of 189 words per minute during a recent rally, although the former president also typically utilizes a smaller vocabulary and repeats himself often, according to the analysis.
40% : If past performances are any indication, Harris will likely speak at a slower pace than Trump.
31% : "Trump has a clear advantage over Harris in terms of experience on the national debate stage, with the former president having participated in six presidential debates against Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
29% : Tuesday's debate may be the only meeting between the 2024 presidential candidates as additional debates have not yet been agreed upon, although Trump previously said that he had agreed to an NBC-hosted debate on September 25.
28% : "During the same podcast, NPR senior political editor Domenico Montanaro said that he expected Trump to drift off topic and "lie" during the debate, while warning that the former president could damage his standing with women voters if he is seen to "bully" Harris.
26% : Trump has opted to forgo traditional preparations, reportedly instead holding a limited number of "policy sessions" with staff at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club and informally practicing responses to expected Harris attacks.
23% : "Will he [Trump] be disciplined?

*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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