🗞️ Story file #309
Texas senator candidate Talarico returns after 13-day absence
Oct 9, 9 PM ET to Oct 10, 7 PM ET
- 10outlets carried it
- 🫏3 · 0 · 7🐘left · center · right
- 22 hourson the front pages
- 10front pages at once, at its peak
- 2 minof TV captions
- 2 of 2parts of a saga
👣 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 9, 8 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
- Oct 9, 9 PM ETfirst on a front page: Newsmax
- Oct 10, 6 AM ETpeak: on 10 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Political Wire Drudge Report Google News
💬 quoted: “the flu”
🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 flu excuse
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- The Sun (2 wordings): “OFF THE TRAIL Texas Senate wannabe James Talarico now MISSING for 12 days at most crucial part of race as Trump demands answers” → “OFF THE TRAIL Texas Senate wannabe now MISSING for 12 days at most crucial part of race”
Every outlet's first headline (10), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
Talarico Back On Campaign Trail After Extended Absence... Oct 9, 11 PM ET
Mediaite
Talarico Resurfaces After Over a Week Off the Campaign Trail, Which Fueled Wild MAGA Rumors Oct 9, 7 PM ET
New York Times
James Talarico Returns to Senate Campaign Trail in Texas After 10-Day Absence Oct 9, 11 PM ET
The Sun
OFF THE TRAIL Texas Senate wannabe James Talarico now MISSING for 12 days at most crucial part of race as Trump demands answers Oct 9, 7 PM ET
New York Post
Texas Dem Senate hopeful James Talarico resurfaces after extended absence as his campaign pushes back Oct 10, 6 AM ET
Newsmax
Talarico Returns to Campaign Trail After Flu Oct 9, 9 PM ET
Red State
Hot Takes: Talarico's Flu Excuse Is the Antithesis of Texas Tough, but He May Have Been Spotted Oct 9, 7 PM ET
The Daily Wire
Rumors Swirl About Talarico’s Mental State As Flu Excuse Collapses 13 Days Into Absence Oct 9, 1 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit
Talarico Surfaces After Hiding From Texas Voters For Nearly Two Weeks – Does it Look Like He Had the Flu? Oct 9, 7 PM ET
The Post Millennial
Talarico campaign issues statement on his 13 DAY absence, blames 'the flu' Oct 9, 5 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- TALARICO BACK ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL AFTER 13-DAY ABSENCE CNN, 44 s
- QUESTIONS MOUNT OVER TALARICO'S WHEREABOUTS Fox News, 23 s
- WHERE WAS TALARICO? Fox News, 19 s
- Y. AFTER NEARLY TWO-WEEK ABSENCE ON THE LIVE OVERNIGHT COVERAGE, CAMPAIGN TRAIL, TALARICO REAPPEARS IN PUBLIC Fox News, 5 s
🧶 Retelling
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: James Talarico Texas Talarico campaign
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Talarico disappears in race
Trump calls on Talarico to debate Paxton
Oct 8, 11 AM ET
Texas senator candidate Talarico returns after 13-day absence (this story)
Oct 9, 9 PM ET