Los Angeles Times Article Rating

'Stopping the Steal' examines Trump's attempt to subvert 2020 election, and what it means for 2024

Sep 17, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -8% Center

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -38% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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-22% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : "I was for Trump the whole time ... and then it started.
40% : "At 2 in the morning [Trump held a news conference], and for him to go out and claim that fraud was underway, it was very dangerous.
39% : Gen. William Barr, who served under Trump.
35% : "Spanning to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, the film explores chronologically how Trump attempted to hang onto the presidential office, no matter the cost.
23% : The film juxtaposes accounts such as Grisham's with footage of Trump and his Big Lie team (who included Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell) spewing accusations about ballot tampering by poll workers, voting by "illegal aliens" and deceased people, and claims that Dominion Voting Systems' electronic ballot machines had been hacked.
21% : "Barr says Trump embarked on a "destructive" campaign that reached new levels of depravity immediately following projections that Biden had won the election.
10% : News and events we're already familiar with -- Trump's vaguely threatening call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger demanding he "find" the president the votes he needed and Trump's private admissions that he knew he lost to Biden -- take on a new light through the accounts of those who stood between Trump and his nefarious plans.
9% : Bowers faced intense pressure from the president and Giuliani to go along with their illegal scheme to replace the state's slate of electors with ones who would elect Trump.

*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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