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Trump taps Hegseth, veteran and Fox News host, to head DOD - Roll Call

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    -4% Center

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    16% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -29% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : "Pete is tough, smart and a true believer in America First," Trump said in a statement on social media Tuesday evening.
55% : Trump also emphasized that Hegseth's book spent two weeks atop the New York Times bestseller list.
35% : Hegseth also wrote a book titled "The War on Warriors" which Trump praised on Tuesday as a book that "reveals the left-wing betrayal of our Warriors and how we must return our Military to meritocracy, lethality, accountability and excellence."
18% : In 2019, news organizations reported that Hegseth had campaigned successfully to get then-President Trump to pardon people who had been convicted or accused of war crimes while serving in the military, three of whom Trump pardoned in a controversial decision that 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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