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Longtime Illinois U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin won’t seek reelection

Apr 23, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -38% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    1% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : As the Senate Democratic whip, Durbin is the No. 2-ranking member of his political caucus, which gave him outsized influence on the nation’s politics and on federal policy.
48% : Trump has signaled an interest in eliminating the program, however, and it has been the focal point of legal challenges from Republican-led states.
30% : Frustrated with their party’s response to President Trump, a wave of young Democrats are challenging incumbents in safe blue districts, hoping to mirror Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s upset win in 2018.
10% : The Trump administration’s flouting of court orders and his attacks on constitutional norms have Durbin uncertain how America’s second fixation with Trump will end.

*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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