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Trump brings up Northam again when falsely claiming Democrats support infanticide during debate

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    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    85% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -33% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : "They have abortion in the ninth month," Trump said.
35% : "The governor of Virginia said we put the baby aside and then we determine what we want to do with the baby," Trump said during the ABC debate.
34% : A look back Northam's 2019 commentsTrump was referring to Northam's 2019 appearance on the radio station WTOP when he responded to a question about Democratic Del. Kathy Tran speaking at a House subcommittee hearing about a bill she proposed to loosen abortion restrictions in Virginia.
30% : Trump praised himself and the U.S. Supreme Court justices who reversed Roe for allowing states to consider potential changes to state law, saying the issue has "torn" the country apart for decades.
27% : Asked why women should trust him on the issue of abortion after he changed his position on backing Florida's six-week abortion ban, Trump made claims that Democrats support abortion "probably after birth," which several fact-checkers have said is false.
22% : "Trump and other Republicans have claimed the remarks from Northam were in support of infanticide.
10% : Trump pointed to comments Northam made in 2019 - initially incorrectly referring to him as West Virginia's former governor - when accusing Democrats of being "radical" on abortion.

*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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