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Michelle Obama let America know her low opinion of Trump at the DNC

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -15% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : For years, Donald Trump did everything in his power to try to make people fear us.
39% : Trump said immigrants coming into the U.S. were "taking Black jobs now."
35% : Again, without naming Trump, Michelle Obama contrasted his background with Harris, who was raised by a middle-class single mother in Berkeley.
31% : Trump was born the son of a wealthy developer in Queens, New York and, according to a New 2018 New York Times investigation, received more than $413 million from his father over the decades, much of that through "tax dodges," including "outright fraud.
29% : As with Carter's funeral, where Michelle Obama likely would have been seated next to Trump, her office didn't give a reason for her non-attendance at his swearing-in ceremony.
26% : Whether she again has a "scheduling" conflict, as with Carter's funeral, she made it pretty clear five months earlier that she didn't think much of Trump as a president or as a human being.
22% : Indeed, Trump made false claims about Harris's racial identity after she became the Democratic nominee, saying that "all of a sudden ...
16% : "Before and during Barack Obama's presidency, he and his wife became the target of unfounded claims by Trump, his wife Melania Trump and other Republicans that his birth certificate was a forgery, NPR reported.
11% : During her widely praised speech at the Democratic National Convention in July, Michelle Obama argued that women's lives would be at risk if Trump were elected to a second term and offered one of her party's "most emphatic takedowns" of the 45th president, mostly without naming him, as the New York Times reported.
11% : Michelle and Barack Obama performed that courtesy for Donald and Melania Trump in January 2017, though the Trumps didn't extend that courtesy for Joe and Jill Biden in 2021 after Trump lost the 2020 election.
6% : "Michelle Obama, who previously campaigned against Trump in 2016 and 2020, also turned his more controversial comment about "black jobs" against him, as she called him out for promoting birtherism, racism and "lies.

*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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