Senate Republicans re-elect John Thune as leader after midterm losses

🗞️ Story file #1585

Senate Republicans re-elect John Thune as leader after midterm losses

Nov 7, 4 PM ET to Nov 10, 10 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

28outlets carried it
🫏8 · 3 · 16🐘left · center · right
3.2 dayson the front pages
35front pages at once, at its peak
21 minof TV captions
5radio newscasts
54 of 58parts of a saga

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Nov 7, 4 PM ETfirst on a front page: Townhall
Nov 7, 5 PM ETfirst on TV: MSNOW
Nov 9, 1 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Nov 10, 6 PM ETpeak: on 35 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 7, 4 PM to Nov 10, 10 PM ET (peak 21), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated

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.

⏱️ Who stayed on it

+32 h 🐘 right

Right outlets kept it on their front pages a median 32 hours longer than left outlets (38 hours against 6).

💬 Quoted

“a plan”1
“Ultimate betrayal”1
“Unfinished”1
“obnoxious”1
“There's No Strategy Here”1
“Political malpractice”1

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

📌 Linked by aggregators

4 Drudge Report · Google News · Political Wire · Real Clear Politics

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 12 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Axios (2 wordings): “McCormick calls for delay in Senate GOP leadership elections” → “Pressure builds on Thune ahead of GOP leadership elections”
Breitbart (3 wordings): “Senate Republicans Force Meeting Before Thune’s Rushed Leadership Elections” → “Senate GOPs Elect John Thune Minority Leader Despite Heavy Electoral Losses”
Fox News (4 wordings): “Republicans revolt against Senate leadership, demand reckoning after midterm disaster” → “Senate GOP rebellion fizzles as Thune keeps power despite historic midterm massacre”
Just the News (7 wordings): “GOP Sen Ron Johnson seeks delay in GOP Senate leadership elections, after big midterms losses” → “Senate Republicans pauses leadership votes to hear demands from members about lame duck strategy”
NBC News (3 wordings): “Some Senate Republicans call for a delay in leadership elections” → “Sen. John Thune is re-elected Senate GOP leader”
Newsmax (8 wordings): “Sen. Johnson Seeks Delay on GOP Leader Vote” → “Thune Gets Nod for Senate Minority Leader”
Red State (2 wordings): “Not So Fast: Republicans Seek to Slow Down Any Vote for Senate Minority Leader” → “GOP Senators Demand Reckoning Before Leadership Elections”
The Daily Signal (2 wordings): “Senators Try to Slow GOP Leadership Vote” → “‘There’s No Strategy Here’: GOP Senator Sounds Alarm Ahead of Leadership Vote”
The Hill (7 wordings): “Johnson, staunch Trump ally, seeks to delay Senate GOP leadership election after big losses” → “Watch live: Senate Republicans give remarks after pause on leadership elections”
The National Desk (3 wordings): “Growing group of Senate Republicans call for delay in leadership elections” → “Wisconsin senator threatens to walk out if GOP moves forward with leadership elections”
Townhall (2 wordings): “Sen. Ron Johnson Moves to Postpone Senate Leadership Elections” → “John Thune's Push to Lead Senate Republicans Again Is Getting Bogged Down”
Washington Examiner (8 wordings): “Ron Johnson presses to delay Senate GOP leadership elections: ‘Political malpractice’” → “Thune reelected as Senate GOP leader after failed push to delay vote”