Indiana Democratic candidate admits to drinking before televised interview

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Indiana Democratic candidate admits to drinking before televised interview

Oct 20, 4 PM ET to Oct 21, 12 PM ET

8outlets carried it
🫏3 · 0 · 5🐘left · center · right
20 hourson the front pages
7front 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 20, 4 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
Oct 20, 5 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
Oct 20, 8 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 20, 4 PM to Oct 21, 12 PM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left · right

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.

💬 quoted: “I Was Nervous”

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 indiana democratic

Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating

Alternet Democratic candidate admits to drinking 3 beers before live TV interview Oct 19, 6 PM ET
HuffPost Dem Is Asked If She's Drunk Mid-Interview — And Boy Was She Ready With A Comeback Oct 20, 4 PM ET
Mediaite Democratic Candidate Owns Up to Drinking Before Her Slurred, Viral Rant Against Republicans: ‘I Was Nervous!’ Oct 19, 5 PM ET
The Washington Times Candidate admits to warm-up drinks before televised interview Oct 20, 3 PM ET
Washington Examiner Indiana Democratic county council candidate admits she had three beers before viral interview Oct 20, 5 PM ET
Breitbart Indiana Democrat Admits to Drinking Ahead of Bizarre Forum Performance Oct 21, 11 AM ET
New York Post The Indiana Democratic candidate admitted how much she drank before slurring through a viral, trainwreck interview. Oct 20, 8 AM ET
The Western Journal Indiana Dem Candidate Admits to Drinking Alcohol Before Wacky, Viral Interview: 'I Was Nervous' Oct 20, 10 AM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

Fox News3 min

JAIME: I WAS NERVOUS, SO I HAD THREE BEERS Fox News, 79 s
"I HAD THREE BEERS, OKAY!". PIERS MORGAN GRILLS VIRAL INDIANA DEM CANDIDATE Fox News, 42 s
DEMOCRAT PREGAMED THE INTERVIEW Fox News, 33 s
DEM HAD THREE BEERS BEFORE INTERVIEW Fox News, 12 s

what people online made of it

🧩 How it's being told

The stories under this news, from our motif index, and who told each: the shows we follow by their lean, people online, fact-checkers. A story people tell, not a claim that it's true; claims are matched to this story by our tools, so a link can be wrong.

🧩 Foot in mouth 🐘 2 right shows
“An Indiana Democrat admitted to drinking before making an anti-Republican rant.”
🧩 Shocked, shocked! 🐘 2 right shows
“An Indiana Democrat admitted to drinking before making an anti-Republican rant.”
🧩 Clumsy faux-pas 🐘 1 right show
“A Democratic candidate for Fayette County Council appeared intoxicated during a local interview.”
🧩 Three sheets to the wind 🐘 1 right show
“A Democratic candidate for Fayette County Council appeared intoxicated during a local interview.”

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

🗣️ names in it: Indiana Democratic Party Democratic candidate Republican Party Democratic candidate (Indiana)

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.