BND - Maine senators debate in first Senate Race showdown

🗞️ Story file #174

Maine senators debate in first Senate Race showdown

Oct 6, 11 PM ET to Oct 7, 6 PM ET · 2 outlets not rated for lean

28outlets carried it
🫏12 · 4 · 10🐘left · center · right
19 hourson the front pages
28front pages at once, at its peak
72 minof TV captions
1radio newscast

👣 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.

Oct 6, 11 PM ETfirst on a front page: CNN
Oct 6, 11 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 7, 5 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 7, 5 PM ETpeak: on 28 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 11 PM to Oct 7, 6 PM ET (peak 28), 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. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “I'm not exactly his favorite senator” 2 “Doddering on a Debate Stage” “I don't owe Trump” “Pathetic” “Not exactly his favorite senator” 2

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 sen susan

✏️ 8 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Bloomberg (2 wordings): “Record $1,500 Heating Bills in Maine Upend a Key Race for Senate Control Democrat Troy Jackson will face off against Republican incumbent Susan Collins tonight in the first debate of the closely watched race.” → “Susan Collins Distances Herself From Trump in Bid to Keep Maine Senate Seat”
New York Post (2 wordings): “Troy Jackson trashes voter ID policy, relies on big fat binder of notes in first Maine Senate debate with Susan Collins” → “GOP Sen. Susan Collins nudges Trump to stay away from Maine: ‘I’m not exactly his favorite senator’”
PBS NewsHour (2 wordings): “Troy Jackson is racing against time in his bid to unseat Susan Collins” → “What happened in the first Maine Senate debate between Collins and Jackson”
Red State (2 wordings): “Troy Jackson Stumbles in Debate, Then Susan Collins Smokes Him on His Record Nick Arama” → “Troy Jackson Stumbles in Debate, Then Susan Collins Smokes Him on His Record”
Townhall (2 wordings): “Troy Jackson Lost Big in Last Night's Debate With Susan Collins Amy Curtis” → “Troy Jackson Lost Big in Last Night's Debate With Susan Collins”
USA Today (2 wordings): “Not 'his favorite senator': Susan Collins says Trump not coming to Maine” → “Takeaways from Maine Senate debate between Susan Collins, Troy Jackson”
Washington Examiner (5 wordings): “Collins distances herself from Trump, Jackson won’t confirm DSA ties: Takeaways from Maine Senate debate” → “'You can't eat road salt': Top takeaways from Maine debate”
Yahoo News (2 wordings): “Susan Collins vs. Troy Jackson: 5 takeaways from Maine Senate debate” → “Susan Collins and Troy Jackson clash over Trump and seniority in Maine’s first Senate debate”