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Trump-Harris debate: Which misleading lines might each side repeat?

  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -32% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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14% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : CBP has reported 365,246 encounters with people from those three nations between October 2023 to July 2024 compared with 346,704 during the same period last year.
58% : Previously, she co-sponsored legislation that would bring more revenue for Social Security by extending the payroll tax to incomes over $250,000.
39% : "Harris' spokespeople previously told Newsweek that in a second term, "there would be nothing stopping Trump from trying again to gut critical benefits and succeeding.
39% : Trump has repeatedly inflated the available figures on the number of migrants that officials have encountered at the border, claiming 20 million people have crossed the border.
38% : Trump has not outlined how he plans to address the Social Security shortfall projected to occur in about 10 years.
36% : The debate on ABC will be the first since President Joe Biden went head-to-head with Trump in June before bowing out of the race and endorsing Harris.
35% : A 2021 Fact Check by PolitiFact showed that by several metrics that Trump did not oversee historic growth in the U.S. economy, falling behind Democratic and Republican predecessors on GDP during his term.
32% : Facts on immigration and Harris' responsibilities have been overblown and exaggerated by Trump, his campaign clearly hoping to make ground on immigration policy based on the last three-and-a-half years of government.
27% : Trump has repeatedly claimed the biggest tax cuts in U.S. history when they were the fourth largest.
25% : While Trump has said that he will "never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare" experts have told Newsweek that his plans for tax cuts could affect Social Security's revenue.
21% : This again has been a repeat attack point from the Democrats, saying that Trump plans to strip federal health and benefits programs.
19% : Trump's running mate, JD Vance, said last week that Harris wants to confiscate guns from Americans, a claim that Trump has made elsewhere that isn't true.
18% : However, Trump has said that the project has nothing to do with him and has labeled some of its ideas "abysmal" and "ridiculous."
18% : That has not done much to dissuade Democrats from repeatedly claiming that Trump would enact the document's goals if elected in November.Democrats appear to suggest that Trump is not worth trusting on this one, particularly given the number of his former staffers and allies who worked on the document.
15% : In the relatively brief window that Trump and Harris have been direct political competitors, both major parties have stretched the truth in their attempts to land resonating blows.
13% : While Trump made defeating Medicare a promise of his presidency he has since rescinded and said he will not introduce cuts to the programs, Point 14 of his policy platform says his administration would "fight for and protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age.

*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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