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Pete Hegseth's Go-To Dodge in His Confirmation Hearing

  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -42% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : While Hegseth's nomination doesn't have enough public commitments yet from Republican senators to know for sure that he'll be confirmed, this is one that Trump wants and insists that he gets.
42% : For a week in early December, it looked like Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth, was cooked.
36% : I answer to President Trump, who received 76 million votes," he said, "and a mandate for change.
33% : He was plummeting, and it seemed like a matter of time before Trump would pull the plug.
24% : Issuing a blanket edict that he wouldn't respond to you all in the biased media -- wave that finger -- showed Trump that he had some fight in him, and hardened the Republican base around his nomination.

*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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