House Democrats missed impeachment vote due to DC traffic

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House Democrats missed impeachment vote due to DC traffic

Nov 11, 11 AM ET to Nov 11, 2 PM ET

2outlets carried it
🫏2 · 0 · 0🐘left · center · right
3 hourson the front pages
6front pages at once, at its peak
7 of 8parts of a saga

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Nov 11, 11 AM ETpeak: on 6 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it each hour, by the outlets' lean, the side that had it first at the bottom:left. First: HuffPost, Wed 2:00 AM ET.

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📰 Every outlet's headline 2left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost🕒 Nov 11, 2 AM ET Multiple House Dems Say They Missed Hegseth Vote Due To Traffic
The Guardian🕒 Nov 11, 10 AM ET Some Democrats who missed key procedural vote to impeach Pete Hegseth blame traffic jam in DC

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation

🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces

🕵️🤷 No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.

what people online made of it

🧩 How it's being told

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🧩 Political accountability ⚖️ 1 center show
↔️ its answer: Light under a bushel
“House Democrats who missed the Hegseth impeachment vote said they were stuck in traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue returning from a PAC reception.”

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

🗣️ Names in it

Pete HegsethHouse Democrats

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to