Trump holds rallies in Arizona and Montana ahead of midterms

🗞️ Story file #326

Trump holds rallies in Arizona and Montana ahead of midterms

Oct 10, 6 PM ET to Oct 15, 10 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

23outlets carried it
🫏8 · 3 · 11🐘left · center · right
5.2 dayson the front pages
25front pages at once, at its peak
233 minof TV captions
27radio newscasts
1fact-check
6 of 49parts of a saga

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Oct 10, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: Just the News
Oct 10, 9 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 11, 12 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 14, 6 AM ETpeak: on 25 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 10, 6 PM to Oct 15, 10 PM ET (peak 15), 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

+73 h 🐘 right

Right outlets kept it on their front pages a median 73 hours longer than left outlets (95 hours against 22).

📡 Wire copy

1 outlet ran the AP headline nearly word for word

PBS NewsHour

💬 Quoted

“take away”1
“wild animals”1
“will take your guns away”1
“real”1
“we are looking into”1
“the real Dan Sullivan”2
“I Love Doing This Stuff”1
“wrongfully charged”1

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

🗣️ Only one side says

🫏 left
nothing of its own

🐘 right
bullhead city

phrases three or more outlets on one side used and none on the other

📌 Linked by aggregators

2 Political Wire · Google News

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

✏️ 13 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Breitbart (2 wordings): “Trump Rallies the Faithful for Jon Husted, Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio” → “Trump Rallies the Faithful for Jon Husted, Vivek Ramaswamy in Ohio While Destroying Sherrod Brown, Amy Acton”
Fox News (3 wordings): “Mike Tyson joins Trump's Syracuse rally and leaves the crowd absolutely roaring” → “Trump says 'we are looking into' other Dan Sullivan on Alaska ballot, warns about governor's race”
Just the News (5 wordings): “WATCH LIVE: Trump speaks at midterm election rally in Tennessee” → “Watch Live: President Donald Trump holds rally in Kalispell, Montana, ahead of midterms”
NBC News (4 wordings): “Trump rallies in New York for gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman” → “Live updates: Trump to rally in Arizona and Montana in blitz to the midterms”
Newsmax (2 wordings): “Trump Calls Omar 'Crooked' in His First Remarks on Raid” → “Trump Takes GOP Midterm Push to Arizona, Montana”
Newsweek (2 wordings): “Mary Peltola Leads Alaska Polls as Trump Schedules Rally for Dan Sullivan” → “Trump Touts ‘Big’ Ohio Rally Crowd Size: What Videos, Pictures Show”
One America News Network (2 wordings): “Trump vows to overturn ‘midterm curse’ during Tenn. rally: ‘Just pretend I’m on the ballot’” → “Trump celebrates tax relief, border security at Ariz. rally ahead of midterms”
PBS NewsHour (4 wordings): “WATCH LIVE: Trump speaks at midterm rally in Youngstown, Ohio” → “WATCH LIVE: Trump speaks at rally along Arizona-Nevada border”
Scripps News (2 wordings): “Trump is heading all the way to Alaska in a sign of a close Senate race” → “Trump in Arizona to support GOP candidates in close midterm races”
The Epoch Times (13 wordings): “Trump Backs Blakeman’s Bid for NY Governor in Syracuse Rally With Mike Tyson” → “Trump Backs Arizona GOP Candidates, Criticizes Hobbs at Bullhead City Rally”
The Gateway Pundit (6 wordings): “WATCH LIVE: Trump Holds Midterm Rally in Clarksville, Tennessee – 3:30 PM ET” → “WATCH LIVE: Trump Holds Rally in Kalispell, Montana at Majestic Valley Arena at 8:15 PM ET”
The Hill (13 wordings): “Live updates: Trump headlines rally in Tennessee; Debate continues over Hasan’s execution livestream” → “Watch live: Trump rallies Montana Republicans with key House seat on the line”
Washington Examiner (10 wordings): “WATCH LIVE: Trump holds rally in Clarksville, Tennessee” → “Trump headlines Montana rally to boost GOP in midterm elections”