Alaska Senate race remains too close to call

🗞️ Story file #1440

Alaska Senate race remains too close to call

Nov 5, 4 AM ET to Nov 5, 10 AM ET

6outlets carried it
🫏1 · 2 · 3🐘left · center · right
6 hourson the front pages
6front pages at once, at its peak
2 of 2parts of a saga

📰 read it at: CBS News Newsweek Straight Arrow News Just the News Washington Examiner The Western Journal

👣 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.

Nov 5, 4 AM ETpeak: on 6 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 5, 4 AM to Nov 5, 10 AM ET (peak 6), 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, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 Quoted

“Decoy”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “DOJ stays quiet on Alaska investigations as Senate race too close to call” → “DOJ quiet on Alaska probes as Senate race too close to call”

📰 Every outlet's headline 6left to right by AllSides rating

CBS News🕒 Nov 4, 12 PM ET Outcome of Alaska Senate race could take weeks to determine
Newsweek🕒 Nov 5, 1 AM ET Alaska Senate Margin Keeps Justice Department Lawsuit Alive
Straight Arrow News🕒 Nov 4, 7 AM ET Alaska Senate race remains razor-thin as ranked-choice voting could decide winner
Just the News🕒 Nov 4, 11 PM ET Justice Department declines to give update on Alaska probes with Senate race too close to call
Washington Examiner🕒 Nov 4, 7 PM ET DOJ stays quiet on Alaska investigations as Senate race too close to call
The Western Journal🕒 Nov 4, 5 PM ET Latest Numbers: 'Decoy' Candidate Could Cost Republicans a Senate Seat as Alaska Race Comes Down to the Wire

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺🤷 No TV captions or radio newscasts matched to it yet. It may still get there, or our matchers missed it.

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

AlaskaJustice DepartmentSenateRepublican Party

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Alaska Senate probe

DOJ sends target letters to 20 Democrats in Alaska Senate probe
Nov 3, 4 PM ET
Alaska Senate race remains too close to call (this story)
Nov 5, 4 AM ET

Alaska Senate race remains too close to call

📰 Spread

📡 Broadcast

🧶 Retelling

🔎 Checking

🧵 Persistence

🧵 Alaska Senate probe