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How memorable debate moments are made: on the fly, rehearsed - and sometimes without a word uttered

Jun 25, 2024 View Original Article
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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -34% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Trump is remembered that night for instructing members of the far-right Proud Boys group from the stage to "stand back and stand by."
27% : A similar moment occurred in 2016, as Hillary Clinton faced the audience to answer questions during her second debate with Trump.
24% : ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWTrump interrupted so frequently when they first debated four years ago that Biden eventually cried out, "Will you shut up, man?" -- a visceral moment if there ever was one.
22% : When Carter accused him of wanting to cut Medicare, Reagan scolded, "There you go again."
17% : Trump skipped all the GOP primary debates this time, meaning he's not done one since squaring off with Biden twice in 2020.

*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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