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The Republicans won the U.S. presidential election on November 8, 2016, and their presidential candidate Donald Trump became the president of the U.S. Since then, poverty in the U.S. has become an even bigger problem.
The article “The Trump Administration Says Poverty Is Over. They’re Lying.” by Bryce Covert is about Trump´s administration and their review on poverty. The article has three main topics.
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Uddrag
The Huffington Post´s readers are therefore mainly people with liberal and leftwing views . The readers will typically support the politicians, who would like the government to spend more money on social programs to aid low-income citizens.
The article shows that the Trump administration wants to limit welfare, this is normally a rightwing and conservative view. Trump administration is a contrast to The Huffington Post´s leftwing view.
It is clear that Covert is against Trump's stance, she expresses her disagreement through the article by using augments, linguistics features and different forms of appeal.
The language Covert use is mostly straightforward and clear. Her choice of words is a mix of formal and informal styles.
The formal style is recognized when she writes longer profound sentences, which give the readers information. She also uses complicated words, such as “pernicious ”, this gives a formal expression.
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