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'Huge implications': Experts warn Trump 'trying to rig' midterms with new 'illegal' order

Mar 25, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -17% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The order stipulates that the Department of Homeland Security will coordinate with the administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) -- which is unofficially led by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk -- to "review each state's publicly available voter registration list and available records concerning voter list maintenance activities.
38% : Various experts, journalists and commentators are now concerned that Trump may be attempting to put his thumb on the scale ahead of next year's midterm elections.
17% : SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah accused Trump of "trying to rig [the] 2026 election" with the order, and argued that "banning birth certificates is RIGGING!"

*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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