Six States Vote in Primaries
Erin Schaff/The New York Times
We ran the numbers: There are 3603 news articles covering this topic. 56% (2003) are left leaning, 31%(1132) center, 13% (468) right leaning.
On March 10, former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders will face off in primaries in Michigan, Washington, Missouri, Mississippi, and Idaho. While left-leaning articles highlight Sanders’ need to win Michigan, right-leaning articles report on a video of Joe Biden that Twitter claims is “manipulated.”
A left-leaning article by The New York Times highlights that while Sanders is doubling his organizing staff in Michigan to 25 and running increased TV ads that attack Biden, a confident Biden is scheduled only one visit to the state in recent days. The article reports that Sanders won Michigan in 2016 by carrying white voters.
Newsweek published a centrist article reporting that a new poll from FiveThirtyEight predicts that for the upcoming Democratic primaries, Bernie Sanders will win just one state compared with Joe Biden winning nine Another poll by FiveThirtyEight that shows each candidate’s chance of winning a majority in the Democratic presidential race also shows that Biden has an advantage.
A right-leaning article by The Daily Caller reports that President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign criticized Twitter for labeling a video of Biden they released as “manipulated media.” The video was tweeted by White House social media manager Dan Scavino, whose version of the video showed Biden stumbling while telling an audience in Kansas City, Missouri: “Excuse me. We can only reelect Donald Trump.”
From the right
Trump campaign tech analysts scrutinize Twitter’s ‘manipulated media’ label after Biden video flap
Daily Caller