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Meghan McCain responds to brother's selfie with Tim Walz

  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -38% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : John McCain, the 2008 Republican nominee for president, was frequently a target of Trump during the last years of his political career.
32% : (Not voting for Harris or Trump, hope that clears things up)."
28% : "I won't endorse Harris (or Trump) because I am still a principled conservative, like my Dad was his entire life," McCain said.
25% : But she did interview independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on her podcast earlier this year and warned Democrats that Kennedy could still "make a real difference" after he suspended his campaign and endorsed Trump last month.
18% : "Meghan McCain, a conservative commentator, said in her post on Thursday that she still will not endorse Harris or Trump.
18% : McCain previously said last month she would not vote for Harris or Trump this year.
14% : The younger McCain, who is a U.S. Army intelligence officer, denounced Trump for his recent controversial visit to Arlington National Cemetery during a wreath-laying ceremony to mark the third anniversary of a terror attack that killed 13 U.S. service members as American forces were withdrawing from Afghanistan.
13% : Trump infamously said during a 2015 campaign stop that McCain, a Navy veteran who was a prisoner of war for over five years in Vietnam, was "not a hero" because Trump prefers "people that weren't captured.
8% : "Multiple members of the McCain family have repeatedly lashed out at Trump for his disparaging comments about the late senator, with Meghan McCain calling the former president "a piece of s***, election-denying huckster whose own wife won't campaign with him" in an X post earlier this year.

*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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