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Vance Once Thought Trump Was Unfit for Nation's Highest Office. Here's What He Wrote

Jan 19, 2025 View Original Article
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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -47% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : The line comes near the end of the op-ed, titled "Why Trump's Antiwar Message Resonates with White America," in which Vance theorized about the appeal of Trump to a Republican base that he thought was disillusioned with the party and its chosen candidates in the wake of the War on Terror.
2% : " Vance's criticism of Trump prior to being named as his running mate for the 2024 election is well documented and the vice president-elect said "I was wrong about Donald Trump" during the vice presidential debate with Gov. Tim Walz on Oct. 1, 2024.

*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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