Mentions Of “Partisanship” Have Surged During Trump’s Presidency

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Mentions of “partisan” and “partisanship” increased sharply in November 2016 with the election of Donald Trump and continued steadily upwards through a peak in December 2019. Yet from January through April of this year, mentions sharply decreased, but trended back up this month.

The timeline below shows mentions of the two words on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive from July 2009 through present, by month processed by the GDELT Project.

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GDELT Project