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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 0.5 points separating the most left-leaning headline from the most right-leaning. Both The Hill and the Daily Caller led with the "regrets" framing — describing Gen Z as regretting their Trump support — and neither headline offered what scorers described as right-coded balance or counterpoint. The modest difference lies in The Hill's addition of "midterm motivated," a phrase scorers flagged as implying progressive electoral energy by casting Gen Z's regret as actionable political momentum. The Daily Caller's headline, by contrast, stayed narrower, simply reporting that "New Data Shows Gen Z Regrets Voting For Trump" without extending the narrative toward electoral consequences. Both outlets nonetheless shared a buyer's-remorse framing that scorers noted lacked any balancing perspective, suggesting the story's core framing was consistent regardless of the outlet's general ideological lean.