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Mike Johnson gives update on Capitol flags for Donald Trump inauguration

  • Bias Rating

    48% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    26% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    16% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : ""On January 20th, the flags at the Capitol will fly at full-staff to celebrate our country coming together behind the inauguration of our 47th President, Donald Trump," Johnson posted.
59% : Because U.S. flag code requires flags to be flown at half-staff for 30 days from the death of a sitting or former president, the flags would remain lowered when Trump was sworn in for a second term on January 20.Republican House Speaker Johnson's post announced that the flags will be raised to "celebrate our country coming together behind the inauguration of our 47th President, Donald Trump.
36% : "Earlier this month, Trump complained on Truth Social about the flags being at half-staff "for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President.
35% : "However, the sitting president made the proclamation to lower a flag, so Trump cannot do anything until he is fully sworn into office.
31% : ""Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it," Trump posted.

*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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