🗞️ Story file #1140
Trump cancels weekend rallies, plans phone-in campaign events
Oct 29, 3 PM ET to Oct 30, 5 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean
- 21outlets carried it
- 🫏11 · 5 · 4🐘left · center · right
- 14 hourson the front pages
- 21front pages at once, at its peak
- 95 minof TV captions
- 6radio newscasts
- 106people retold it online
- 1 of 2parts of a saga
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.
- Oct 29, 3 PM ETfirst on a front page: Alternet
- Oct 29, 4 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
- Oct 29, 5 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
- Oct 30, 3 AM ETpeak: on 21 front pages
- Oct 30, 4 AM ETretold online by 106 people
📰 Spread
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💬 Quoted
- “Doing So Well”1
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📌 Linked by aggregators
3 Drudge Report · Google News · Political Wire
aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)
✏️ 6 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- HuffPost (3 wordings): “Trump Cancels Saturday’s Planned Rally for Kansas GOP Sen. Roger Marshall” → “Trump Cancels Weekend’s Planned Rallies In Kansas And Iowa”
- Just the News (2 wordings): “Trump bails on Kansas rally, will hold string of virtual events instead” → “Trump cancels weekend rally in Kansas to instead hold virtual campaign events”
- Mediaite (2 wordings): “Trump Cancels Red State Rally Same Day New Poll Shows Republican Senator 4-Points Down” → “GOP Senator Says Trump Scrapped Rally in His State Because He’s ‘Doing So Well’ — As New Poll Shows Him Trailing”
- The Washington Post (3 wordings): “Trump cancels Kansas rally before midterm elections to hold virtual events” → “Trump cancels Kansas rally before midterm elections to hold virtual events - The Washington Post”
- The Washington Sun (2 wordings): “Trump Scraps a Weekend Trip to Kansas” → “Trump Cancels In-Person Rallies in Kansas and Iowa”
- Yahoo News (2 wordings): “Trump cancels pair of weekend rallies in last-minute strategy shift” → “Trump cancels weekend rallies in last-minute strategy shift”
Every outlet's first headline (21), left to right by AllSides rating
Alternet
Confusion as Trump abruptly cancels planned rally amid protests, low turnout Oct 29, 3 PM ET
HuffPost
Trump Cancels Saturday’s Planned Rally for Kansas GOP Sen. Roger Marshall Oct 29, 3 PM ET
The Daily Beast
Trump Cancels Campaign Rallies after Humiliating Protests Oct 29, 11 PM ET
AP
Trump cancels rallies in Kansas and Iowa, opting for telerallies to reach more voters, RNC says Oct 29, 8 PM ET
Mediaite
Trump Cancels Red State Rally Same Day New Poll Shows Republican Senator 4-Points Down Oct 29, 4 PM ET
NBC News
Trump cancels Saturday event in Kansas as he shifts to more tele-rallies Oct 29, 7 PM ET
New York Times
Trump Cancels Rallies in Kansas and Iowa This Weekend Oct 30, 3 AM ET
The Independent
Trump cancels his appearance at weekend rally in Kansas days before midterm vote Oct 29, 2 PM ET
The Washington Post
Trump cancels Kansas rally before midterm elections to hold virtual events Oct 29, 3 PM ET
USA Today
With midterms days away, Trump cancels 2 rallies Oct 29, 11 PM ET
Yahoo News
Trump cancels pair of weekend rallies in last-minute strategy shift Oct 29, 9 PM ET
Bloomberg
Trump Cancels Rallies, Switches to Remote Midterm Campaigning Oct 29, 10 PM ET
Newsweek
Trump Cancels Kansas Rally as New Poll Shows Republican Trailing Democrat Oct 29, 3 PM ET
Reuters
Trump cancels weekend rallies, plans to phone in to other midterm campaign events Oct 29, 11 PM ET
Scripps News
Trump scraps Kansas campaign stop amid signs of trouble for Senate Republicans Oct 29, 3 PM ET
The Hill
Trump to join tele-rallies 19 states after midterm event cancellations Oct 29, 10 PM ET
Just the News
Trump bails on Kansas rally, will hold string of virtual events instead Oct 29, 3 PM ET
The Washington Times
Trump cancels Kansas rally just days before Election Day Oct 29, 6 PM ET
IJR
Trump Cancels Rallies, Plans Phone-In Campaign Events Oct 29, 10 PM ET
Red State
President Trump Cancels Rally in Kansas at Last Moment, Then Makes Big Announcement Oct 29, 2 PM ET
The Washington Sun
Trump Scraps a Weekend Trip to Kansas Oct 29, 2 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
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📺 On TV
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📻 On the radio
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🎙️ On the shows
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🧶 Retelling
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🧶 Retold online
- Donald Trump is suffering from advanced dementia and declining health. Oct 30: told by 106 people; told before on Oct 27, Oct 26, Oct 24, Oct 23, Oct 22, Oct 22, Oct 16, Oct 13, Oct 4
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
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