BND - Trump uses anti-trans slur against Democratic Senate candidate in South Carolina

🗞️ Story file #135

Trump uses anti-trans slur against Democratic Senate candidate in South Carolina

Oct 6, 7 AM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET

7outlets carried it
🫏4 · 1 · 2🐘left · center · right
12 hourson the front pages
7front pages at once, at its peak
4 minof TV captions

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Oct 6, 7 AM ETfirst on a front page: Mediaite
Oct 6, 10 AM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
Oct 6, 12 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 7 AM to Oct 6, 7 PM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

New York Post (2 wordings): “Trump attacks Democratic Senate candidate Annie Andrews with anti-trans slur” → “Donald Trump used an anti-trans slur against South Carolina Senate candidate Annie Andrews while endorsing Republican incumbent Darline Graham.”
Yahoo News (2 wordings): “Trump uses anti-trans slur against Democratic Senate candidate in South Carolina” → “Trump uses anti-transgender slur to attack South Carolina Senate nominee”

Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating