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🗞️ Story file #334

Trump urges Fetterman to switch parties and become Republican

Oct 11, 8 AM ET to Oct 11, 6 PM ET

👣 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.

  1. Oct 11, 8 AM ETfirst on a front page: Just the News
  2. Oct 11, 5 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 11, 8 AM to Oct 11, 6 PM ET (peak 9), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 11, 3 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PMHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 11, 12:00 AM ET: Trump Urges Sen. John Fetterman To Switch Parties And Become A RepublicanNewsweekNewsweekNewsweek, Oct 11, 1:00 AM ET: Donald Trump Says He Would ‘Love’ to Have John Fetterman as a RepublicanNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 11, 2:00 AM ET: Trump says he’d ‘love’ to have Sen. Fetterman as a Republican amid growing speculationFox NewsFox NewsFox News, Oct 11, 6:00 AM ET: Trump welcomes Fetterman to GOP, says Democrat could fare better as RepublicanNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 11, 6:00 AM ET: Trump Urges Fetterman to Switch PartiesJust the NewsJust the NewsJust the News, Oct 11, 8:00 AM ET: Trump encourages Fetterman to become RepublicanThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 11, 10:00 AM ET: Trump urges John Fetterman to switch parties: ‘I’d love to see him as a Republican’Washington ExaminerWashington ExaminerWashington Examiner, Oct 11, 2:02 PM ET: Trump says he’d ‘love to see’ Fetterman join Republican Party: ‘He’s great’Red StateRed StateRed State, Oct 11, 5:02 PM ET: Trump: ‘I’d Love Fetterman As a Republican’ for Senate Majority EdgeRed State, Oct 11, 6:02 PM ET: Trump: ‘I’d Love Fetterman As a Republican’ for Senate Majority Edge Ward Clark
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: Political Wire

💬 quoted: “love” 5 “He's great”

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Red State (2 wordings): “Trump: ‘I’d Love Fetterman As a Republican’ for Senate Majority Edge” → “Trump: ‘I’d Love Fetterman As a Republican’ for Senate Majority Edge Ward Clark”
Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

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🧶 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: Donald Trump John Fetterman Republican Party

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

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