🧵 Saga file #87
Alaska Senate Election Lawsuit
Oct 23, 12 PM ET to Oct 26, 5 AM ET · 🔴 on the front pages now
- 2parts so far
- 52outlets carried a part
- 🫏24 · 12 · 13🐘left · center · right
- 2.7 daysrunning so far
- 183 minof TV captions
- 22radio newscasts
- 44people retold it online
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 23, 12 PM ET · on the front pages 2.7 daysDOJ sues to block Alaska Senate certification if Republican loses
- Oct 25, 2 PM ET · on the front pages 15 hoursTrump criticizes Murkowski as GOP's worst senator in Alaska race
📰 Spread
each part on the front pages, hour by hour
🧩 The parts
each one opens its own page
1. DOJ sues to block Alaska Senate certification if Republican loses
Oct 23, 12 PM ET · 51 outlets · on the front pages 2.7 days · 🔴 now
“Trump: GOP weighing legal action to remove second Dan Sullivan from Alaska ballot” first: The Washington Times
📺 CNN 143 min, MSNOW 27 min, Fox News 9 min, BBC News 4 min · 📻 22 newscasts · 🧶 retold by 44
2. Trump criticizes Murkowski as GOP's worst senator in Alaska race
Oct 25, 2 PM ET · 8 outlets · on the front pages 15 hours · 🔴 now
“‘DISGRACE!’ Trump Rails Against GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski in Wild Late-Night Post on Hotly-Contested Alaska Senate Race” first: Mediaite, Raw Story
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
- The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit to block Alaska from certifying its Senate election unless the Republican candidate wins. told by 38 people, on “DOJ sues to block Alaska Senate certification if Republican loses”
- Stephen Miller is insulting the intelligence of Alaskan voters by claiming they cannot distinguish between candidates on the ballot. told by 6 people, on “DOJ sues to block Alaska Senate certification if Republican loses”
🧩 They think you're stupid