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Joe Biden's exit, talk of the glass ceiling, a civil rights hero. Takeaways from Day 1 of the DNC

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -4% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : Democrats don't want voters -- or Trump -- to forgetDemocrats opted to shine the convention spotlight on the harrowing subject of the coronavirus pandemic.
38% : ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWIt was a reflection of Democratic frustration at how Trump has portrayed his tenure in office as a golden age for the country, even though hundreds of thousands of Americans died of COVID-19 during the last year of his term.
31% : ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWIn that speech, O'Brien did not endorse Trump.
30% : She delivered a fiery speech hoping that Harris could do what she could not -- become the first woman president by beating Trump.
20% : Even more people died of the virus during Biden's presidency than during Trump's, voters have shown an eagerness to move on and some preventative measures championed by Democrats -- like school closures and masking -- are not popular in retrospect.
10% : Rep. Lauren Underwood of Illinois, a nurse, said of Trump: "He took the COVID crisis and turned it into a catastrophe.

*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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