Biden Defends Law Enforcement, Critiques Republicans
We ran the numbers: There are 1,757 news articles covering this topic. 53% (932) are left-leaning, 24% (413) are centrist, and 23% (412) are right-leaning.
President Joe Biden delivered a speech in Pennsylvania where he rallied against “MAGA Republicans in Congress” and discussed law enforcement. While left-leaning articles highlight Biden’s support of gun control and his critiques of Republicans, right-leaning articles highlight hypocrisy from the president.
AP published a centrist article reporting on how Biden critiqued “MAGA Republicans in Congress” who refused to denounce the Jan. 6 2021 assault on the Capitol and who are now targeting the FBI. Biden tried to frame Democrats as the true pro-law enforcement party, stating that “it’s sickening to see the new attacks on the FBI, threatening the life of law enforcement and their families, for simply carrying out the law and doing their job.”
A left-leaning article from The Washington Post discusses how Biden criticized Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for forecasting “riots in the street” if Trump is criminally charged. The president also pushed for an assault weapon ban and said to his “MAGA Republican friends in Congress” to not tell him “you support law enforcement if you won’t condemn what happened Jan. 6. Can’t do it. For God’s sake, whose side are you on?”
A right-leaning article from Fox News discusses how Biden’s support for law enforcement ignores how many Democrats want to defund the police and the Democrat’s inability to pass legislation in the House to provide increased funding for state and local police departments. Biden, however, stated that he is “opposed to defunding the police.”