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🗞️ Story file #206

Democratic candidate reports being raped while repairing campaign sign

Oct 7, 6 PM ET to Oct 8, 6 PM ET · 2 outlets not rated for lean

24outlets carried it
🫏12 · 5 · 5🐘left · center · right
1 dayon the front pages
23front pages at once, at its peak
3 minof TV captions

👣 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 7, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
Oct 7, 8 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 8, 6 PM ETpeak: on 23 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 7, 6 PM to Oct 8, 6 PM ET (peak 23), 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 Drudge Report Political Wire

💬 quoted: “ultra-red” “I just wanted to forget it”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 arizona congressional 🫏 fixing campaign

✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

HuffPost (2 wordings): “Arizona Congressional Candidate Reports She Was Raped While Fixing Campaign Signs” → “Arizona Congressional Candidate Reports She Was Raped While Fixing Campaign Sign”
Los Angeles Times (2 wordings): “Arizona congressional candidate says she was sexually assaulted when repairing campaign signs” → “Arizona congressional candidate says two men raped her while she was out repairing campaign signs”
New York Post (2 wordings): “Congressional candidate alleges she was raped while fixing campaign sign: ‘I just wanted to forget it’” → “Congressional candidate alleges she was raped while fixing campaign sign as heinous details emerge”
The Daily Wire (2 wordings): “Democratic Congressional Candidate Says She Was Raped While Repairing Campaign Sign” → “Democrat Congressional Candidate Says She Was Raped While Repairing Campaign Sign”

Every outlet's first headline (24), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost Arizona Congressional Candidate Reports She Was Raped While Fixing Campaign Signs Oct 7, 6 PM ET
Raw Story Candidate raped in 'ultra-red' MAGA district after repairing campaign sign: report Oct 7, 5 PM ET
The Guardian Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped while trying to repair campaign sign Oct 7, 7 PM ET
The New Republic Democratic Candidate Reports Being Raped Near Her Campaign Sign Oct 7, 2 PM ET
ABC News Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped trying to repair campaign sign Oct 7, 9 PM ET
CBS News Arizona congressional candidate reports rape while repairing campaign signs Oct 8, 6 PM ET
Los Angeles Times Arizona congressional candidate says she was sexually assaulted when repairing campaign signs Oct 8, 4 PM ET
Mediaite Democratic Congressional Candidate Shares Harrowing Account of Being Raped While Fixing Campaign Signs Oct 7, 5 PM ET
NBC News Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped and thinks it may have been a politically motivated attack Oct 8, 4 PM ET
New York Times Arizona Congressional Candidate Says She Was Raped While Fixing Sign Oct 8, 1 AM ET
The Independent Political candidate in Arizona reports she was raped while out mending campaign signs Oct 7, 5 PM ET
Yahoo News Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped while trying to fix campaign sign Oct 8, 11 AM ET
BBC Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped while repairing campaign sign Oct 8, 11 AM ET
Newsweek Democratic Congressional Candidate Says She Was Raped While Campaigning Oct 7, 4 PM ET
Scripps News Crime Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped while fixing campaign signs Scripps News Group Oct 8, 1 PM ET
The Hill Congressional candidate says she was raped while repairing campaign signs Oct 8, 6 PM ET
WSJ Arizona Congressional Candidate Says She Was Raped While Fixing Campaign Signs Oct 8, 2 PM ET
Washington Examiner Democratic House candidate says she was raped while repairing campaign signs Oct 7, 6 PM ET
IJR Arizona Candidate Reports Rape While Repairing Sign Oct 8, 8 AM ET
New York Post Congressional candidate alleges she was raped while fixing campaign sign: ‘I just wanted to forget it’ Oct 8, 8 AM ET
The Daily Caller Congressional Candidate Says She Was Raped While Repairing Her Campaign Signs Oct 7, 6 PM ET
The Daily Wire Democratic Congressional Candidate Says She Was Raped While Repairing Campaign Sign Oct 7, 8 PM ET
The 19th Arizona House candidate said she was raped while fixing campaign signs Oct 8, 4 PM ET
The Washington Sun Arizona Congressional Candidate Says She Was Raped While Repairing Campaign Signs Oct 7, 7 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN3 min

Fox News14 s

ATTORNEY: "VERY CONCERNED" FOR JANE DOE AND HER FAMILY'S SAFETY CNN, 82 s
ATTORNEY: FALSE SHOOTING REPORT ENDANGERED JANE DOE'S FAMILY CNN, 78 s
ATTORNEY DETAILS THREATS AGAINST JANE DOE, HIS OWN FAMILY CNN, 32 s
COUSIN-KISSER DODGES COMMIE Q Fox News, 14 s

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: Arizona Democratic Party MAGA Congressional Candidate Campaign Signs

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.