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POLITICO Article Rating

San Jose's mayor is getting under Democrats' skin

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    14% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : And they met with Voting Rights Project co-founder Matt Barreto on Wednesday to discuss how they could counteract a sweeping new executive order from Trump that touches everything from vote-by-mail deadlines to requiring people to prove their citizenship when they vote.
36% : Trump has frequently blasted California elections with varying levels of accuracy, and called for the state to pass a voter ID requirement in order to receive federal aid to recover from the Los Angeles fires.
30% : (Los Angeles Times) -- Ousted Santa Clara County Superintendent of Schools Mary Ann Dewan dropped her lawsuit against the education board that fired her.
28% : " STAYING IN THE MIX -- Former HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and ex-Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon joined the UCLA Voting Rights Project as advisors, giving them an avenue to fight President Donald Trump's push for voter ID laws as they consider their next moves.
26% : A FISHY SITUATION -- When endangered salmon started dying last week in large numbers at the pumps lifting water out of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to farms and cities south, the truce on water between Newsom and Trump began showing some cracks.
12% : Becerra, who as California attorney general sued Trump over an attempt to add a citizenship question to the Census, is also pitching in on election issues.

*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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