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Midterm results mark decline of Trump and Maga
Nov 4, 8 AM ET to Nov 7, 10 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean
- 15outlets carried it
- 🫏10 · 4 · 0🐘left · center · right
- 3.1 dayson the front pages
- 9front pages at once, at its peak
- 19 minof TV captions
- 61people retold it online
- 1fact-check
- 1 of 2parts of a saga
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- Nov 4, 8 AM ETfirst on a front page: Foreign Policy
- Nov 4, 10 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
- Nov 4, 2 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
- Nov 6, 4 AM ETretold online by 61 people
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- “The Beginning of the End of Trumpism”1
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1 Real Clear Politics
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✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Foreign Policy (2 wordings): “The Beginning of the End of Trumpism” → “The midterms are the beginning of the end of Trump”
- The Atlantic (3 wordings): “The Beginning of Trump’s End” → “The Epstein Election and the End of MAGA”
- The Guardian (3 wordings): “The death knell of Trumpism has finally sounded” → “The end of Maga as we know it”
📰 Every outlet's headline 15left to right by AllSides rating
- Jacobin🕒 Nov 4, 10 AM ET
The Donald Trump Era in American Politics Is Ending
- Mother Jones🕒 Nov 4, 10 PM ET
The Last Days of MAGA and the Scramble to Dump Trump
- New Yorker🕒 Nov 3, 7 AM ET
Finally, the Beginning of Trump’s End
- The Atlantic🕒 Nov 3, 11 PM ET
The Beginning of Trump’s End
- The Guardian🕒 Nov 4, 1 AM ET
The death knell of Trumpism has finally sounded
- The New Republic🕒 Nov 5, 11 AM ET
Trump’s Midterms Spiral Was Months in the Making
- New York Times🕒 Nov 4, 6 AM ET
‘The Beginning of the End of Trumpism’
- The Economist🕒 Nov 6, 1 PM ET
Is this the end of the Trump era?
- The Washington Post🕒 Nov 4, 10 PM ET
The beginning of the end of Trumpism
- The Week🕒 Nov 6, 6 PM ET Is this the beginning of the end for the Trump era?
- Financial Times🕒 Nov 4, 2 PM ET The beginning of the end of the age of Trump
- Foreign Policy🕒 Nov 4, 8 AM ET
The Beginning of the End of Trumpism
- The Hill🕒 Nov 3, 7 PM ET
The Trump era is over
- WSJ🕒 Nov 6, 2 PM ET
Opinion | The MAGA Coalition Disintegrates
- Crooks and Liars🕒 Nov 6, 12 AM ET
Harry Enten: Midterm Results Mark The End Of Trump And MAGA
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- 🧩 Lame duck
🫏 2 left shows ⚖️ 1 center show 🧶 online
“Posters ask why a lame-duck Trump needs a political operation and call his continued fundraising a grift.” and 2 more - 🧩 Political realignment
🫏 1 left show ⚖️ 1 center show
“The election results represent the end of the Trump decade and a wiping clean of the political map.” - 🧩 Dead weight president
🧶 online
“Donald Trump told voters to vote as if he were on the ballot, and they did, resulting in Republican losses.” - 🧩 Referendum on the president
🧶 online
“Donald Trump told voters to vote as if he were on the ballot, and they did, resulting in Republican losses.” - 🧩 The grift
🧶 online
“Posters ask why a lame-duck Trump needs a political operation and call his continued fundraising a grift.” - 🧩 Top of the ticket
🧶 online
“Donald Trump told voters to vote as if he were on the ballot, and they did, resulting in Republican losses.”
🧶 Retold online
- Posters ask why a lame-duck Trump needs a political operation and call his continued fundraising a grift. Nov 7: told by 49 people (same issue)
- Donald Trump told voters to vote as if he were on the ballot, and they did, resulting in Republican losses. Nov 6: told by 12 people
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