🗞️ Story file #1537
Democrat flips House seat in North Carolina after felony charge
Nov 6, 1 PM ET to Nov 7, 10 AM ET
- 9outlets carried it
- 🫏0 · 1 · 8🐘left · center · right
- 21 hourson the front pages
- 9front pages at once, at its peak
- 2 minof TV captions
- 2radio newscasts
- 2 of 2parts of a saga
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Fox News 
New York Post 
The Daily Caller 
The Daily Signal 
The Daily Wire 
The Post Millennial 
The Western Journal
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- Nov 6, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: Fox News
- Nov 6, 4 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
- Nov 6, 8 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages
- Nov 7, 7 AM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
📰 Spread
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💬 Quoted
- “Blue Tsunami”1
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✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Fox News (2 wordings): “Democrat who toppled GOP incumbent will head to court on felony charge just days after election upset” → “Newly elected Democrat's victory lap collides with a long-running felony case”
📰 Every outlet's headline 9left to right by AllSides rating
- The Hill🕒 Nov 5, 6 PM ET
Democrat, who clinched surprise House win, facing felony charge
- Just the News🕒 Nov 6, 8 PM ET
Democrat flips House seat in North Carolina despite felony charge
- Fox News🕒 Nov 6, 1 PM ET
Democrat who toppled GOP incumbent will head to court on felony charge just days after election upset
- New York Post🕒 Nov 6, 12 AM ET
Dem candidate gets elected to the House in surprise win — and has a court appearance next week
- The Daily Caller🕒 Nov 5, 11 PM ET
Dem Who Flipped House Seat Was Charged With Felony Car Theft Less Than A Month Before Election
- The Daily Signal🕒 Nov 6, 11 AM ET
Democrat Facing Felony Charge Flips GOP House Seat in ‘Blue Tsunami’
- The Daily Wire🕒 Nov 6, 4 PM ET
New Class Of Democrats Will Feature An Accused Felon
- The Post Millennial🕒 Nov 6, 1 PM ET
North Carolina elects Dem rep charged with felony car theft
- The Western Journal🕒 Nov 6, 7 PM ET
Newly Elected Congressional Democrat Due to Face Felony Charge in Court
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📺 On TV
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📻 On the radio
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🧶 Retelling
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🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
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🧵 Persistence
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