👤 Eric Garcia

19 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
19
2026-09-13 – 2026-10-06
Claims per article
33
626 extracted in total
Hedged claims
8%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
4,419
characters
Writes for The Independent.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Politics
84%
Economy/Business
16%
Most-tagged topics
RepublicanRepublicansSenateDemocratsChinaChineseCongressDemocratic

Leaning

-0.37 average ± 0.17 · -0.40 median · 10 scored articles
Sits to the left of their own outlet, which averages -0.19 — the whole interval clears it. Leaning rates the writing, not the subject. How it is scored.

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Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-25 · The Independent · Politics
Trump’s scowl says it all as CNN and MS NOW return to White House for XI’s final day
35 outlets covered this event · leans right
2026-09-26 · The Independent · Economy/Business
Trump’s red-carpet rollout for Xi was everything MAGA didn’t need amid dire predictions
31 outlets covered this event · leans left
2026-09-25 · The Independent · Economy/Business
Trump’s red-carpet rollout for Xi was everything Republicans didn’t need right now
31 outlets covered this event
2026-10-01 · The Independent · Politics
Trump says AI can self-regulate. Even some top Republicans don’t trust that
20 outlets covered this event
2026-09-17 · The Independent · Politics
Congress members fleeing DC all say the same thing about filling their gas tanks
15 outlets covered this event
2026-09-14 · The Independent · Politics
‘The monster is loose’: Mike Johnson is Trump’s proxy pushing AI in Congress even as members fear the worst
15 outlets covered this event

What they said would happen

2026-09-13 · The Independent
If Democrats win, they’ll need to work with Trump. They just aren’t clear on what
🔮 But the meeting illustrated an uncomfortable truth: If Democrats do win back the House of Representatives, let alone the Senate, they will go from being the opposition that regularly criticizes Trump to having to govern with him. assertive
2026-09-14 · The Independent
‘The monster is loose’: Mike Johnson is Trump’s proxy pushing AI in Congress even as members fear the worst
🔮 But the House will only be in session for a week, since House Speaker Mike Johnson canceled the final two weeks of the session before the midterms. assertive
2026-09-16 · The Independent
‘They can’t even spell AI’: Republican offers brutal take as Congress flees Hill amid calls for oversight
🔮 “Some of these guys, they go home, they got a '72 Vega in the driveway with an eight-track tape player, and they want to talk to me about technology, and they can't even spell AI much less know what it is.” Burchett’s frank and homespun comments come as largely Democrats, but also a handful of Republicans, have sounded the alarm after Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at Anthropic resigned and warned that people working on AI “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” assertive
2026-09-17 · The Independent
Congress members fleeing DC all say the same thing about filling their gas tanks
🔮 But members of Congress in both parties are warning that this could become a crisis for Republicans in the midterm election. assertive
2026-09-18 · The Independent
All the polls show a Republican bloodbath in the Midterms. So why aren’t Democrats celebrating?
🔮 If Republicans feared they would lose the House and Senate, this week showed a tidal wave of polls that makes them think no lifeboat could save them. assertive
2026-09-21 · The Independent
Trump and MAGA’s big Red Scare: A midterm ‘communist’ threat built on fear and lies
🔮 Every week, the generic ballot, which determines if voters would prefer a replacement-level Democrat or Republican for Congress, shows Democrats gaining a lead with almost every survey. assertive
2026-09-22 · The Independent
Trump-fueled gas prices, his ‘forever’ war and all those tariffs give Democrats a real shot at stealing this deep-red state
🔮 That same year, Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin would win his last term. assertive
2026-09-22 · The Independent
Trump-endorsed Byron Donalds wipes all references to the president from his campaign website
🔮 Whoever wins the race will succeed term-limited Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, whom Trump endorsed in 2018 before turning against the governor when they competed for the Republican nomination. assertive
2026-09-25 · The Independent
Trump claims China’s Xi agrees that AI should now be called ‘Super Intelligence’
🔮 “Tremendous things will be happening. assertive
2026-09-25 · The Independent
Trump’s scowl says it all as CNN and MS NOW return to White House for XI’s final day
🔮 Another reporter asked, “Should U.S. taxpayers pay for ads about you, Mr. President?” in response to a campaign-style ad that the U.S. government released that played on Fox News earlier this week, which promoted how his administration would “defeat communism, socialism and Marxism.” assertive
2026-09-25 · The Independent
Trump’s red-carpet rollout for Xi was everything Republicans didn’t need right now
🔮 All of this might have been well and good for the president, but it yielded few results that the president could offer to Americans with fewer than 40 days until the midterm elections when Republicans are bracing for a bloodbath. assertive
2026-09-26 · The Independent
Trump’s red-carpet rollout for Xi was everything MAGA didn’t need amid dire predictions
🔮 All of this might have been well and good for the president, but it yielded few results that the president could offer to Americans with fewer than 40 days until the midterm elections when Republicans are bracing for a bloodbath. assertive
2026-09-28 · The Independent
These five midterm races may shock everyone on Election Day
🔮 The Senate will have its final week of session this week before it breaks. assertive
2026-10-01 · The Independent
Trump says AI can self-regulate. Even some top Republicans don’t trust that
🔮 Rather, he’s argued that he alone can rein them in and argued that if the United States doesn’t go all-in on AI, China will win the AI race. assertive
2026-10-04 · The Independent
Trump economic adviser bafflingly says ‘if people were unhappy, it’d show up in the data’
🔮 President Donald Trump’s economic adviser said that if voters were dissatisfied with the economy, it would show up in the economic data — even as economic data shows Americans are dissatisfied with the state of the economy. assertive
2026-10-04 · The Independent
Trump lashes out at Fox News as his mid-term fears spiral out of control
🔮 “Our people want to see our Rallies, and reports on our Rallies, on Fox News, or they will very quickly stop watching (like I am doing right now!),” he said. assertive
2026-10-04 · The Independent
Justice Alito shares worry ‘about the future of the court’ amid Trump’s rhetoric
🔮 Barrett said she would later have to explain the vest to her 12-year-old son. assertive
2026-10-04 · The Independent
As Trump spirals with midterms, it seems his go-to safe spaces are becoming less welcoming
🔮 He’s clashed with Fox News ever since his first campaign for president when he famously criticized debate moderator Megyn Kelly, saying “you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.” assertive
2026-10-06 · The Independent
The one GOP incumbent who’s poised to defy the odds in midterms bloodbath
🔮 The generic congressional ballot, which measures whether voters will pick a generic Democrat or Republican for Congress, shows Democrats have a nine-point lead. assertive
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