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🗞️ Story file #947

Trump campaigns in Michigan ahead of Senate races

Oct 25, 4 PM ET to Oct 26, 5 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

👣 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 25, 4 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
  2. Oct 25, 5 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
  3. Oct 25, 6 PM ETpeak: on 15 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 25, 6 PM8 PM10 PMOct 262 AM4 AM815leftcenterrightnot rated
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 25, 4 PM to Oct 26, 5 AM ET (peak 15), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated
Oct 24, 6 PMOct 256 AM12 PM6 PMOct 26NewsweekNewsweekNewsweek, Oct 24, 5:00 PM ET: Trump Tests Midterm Pull in Georgia With Second Rally in Eight DaysThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch Times, Oct 24, 10:00 PM ET: Trump Participates in Midterm Rally in Perry, GeorgiaStraight Arrow NewsStraight Arrow NewsStraight Arrow News, Oct 25, 2:00 PM ET: Trump heads to Michigan as Senate race sharpens over economy and identityOANOne America News NetworkOne America News Network, Oct 25, 4:00 PM ET: Trump, Obama trade criticisms as both campaign in Michigan amid contentious El-Sayed, Rogers Senate raceHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 25, 4:00 PM ET: Trump’s Midterm Swing Brings Him To Michigan As GOP Aims To Undermine El-SayedHuffPost, Oct 25, 6:00 PM ET: Trump Gives A Crude Shoutout To Nicki Minaj At Michigan RallyStar TribuneStar TribuneStar Tribune, Oct 25, 6:00 PM ET: Trump escalates rhetoric against El-Sayed as he tries to undermine Democrat in Michigan Senate raceCNBCCNBCCNBC, Oct 25, 6:00 PM ET: Trump invokes 9/11 in urging Michigan voters to oppose Muslim Senate candidate El-SayedNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 25, 7:00 PM ET: Trump Steps Up Attacks on El-Sayed in Mich. Senate RaceNewsmax, Oct 25, 8:00 PM ET: Trump Rips El-Sayed Over Extremist TiesThe Washington SunThe Washington SunThe Washington Sun, Oct 25, 7:00 PM ET: Trump Attacks El-Sayed As a ‘Jihadist’ in Anti-Muslim ScreedsBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 25, 7:00 PM ET: Trump Blasts ‘Jihadist’ El-Sayed for Portraying Himself as DoctorBreitbart, Oct 25, 10:00 PM ET: …Trump Criticizes ‘Jihadist’ El-Sayed ’Should Not Be Allowed to Serve in Our Senate’…Yahoo NewsYahoo NewsYahoo News, Oct 25, 8:00 PM ET: Trump invokes 9/11 to attack Abdul El-Sayed in key Michigan Senate raceBloombergBloombergBloomberg, Oct 25, 8:00 PM ET: Trump Attacks El-Sayed Over Muslim Faith at Michigan RallyChicago TribuneChicago TribuneChicago Tribune, Oct 25, 9:00 PM ET: President Donald Trump escalates anti-Muslim attacks against Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, drawing Arab American rebukeAPAPAP, Oct 25, 9:00 PM ET: Trump escalates anti-Muslim attacks against El-Sayed in Michigan, drawing Arab American rebukeThe Washington PostThe Washington PostThe Washington Post, Oct 25, 9:00 PM ET: Trump calls El-Sayed a ‘jihadist’ as he escalates campaign rhetoricThe Washington Post, Oct 26, 1:00 AM ET: Trump calls El-Sayed a ‘jihadist’ as he escalates campaign rhetoric - The Washington PostWashington ExaminerWashington ExaminerWashington Examiner, Oct 26, 12:00 AM ET: El Sayed mocks Rogers’s ‘earpiece’ and Trump’s ‘a**’ remarks in Grand Rapids rallyWashington Examiner, Oct 26, 2:00 AM ET: El Sayed mocks Rogers and Trump’s Nicki Minaj remarks at rallyCBS NewsCBS NewsCBS News, Oct 26, 5:00 AM ET: Trump attacks El-Sayed over his faith, calls him "jihadist"📺 TVFox News, 5:09 PM ET: TRUMP: GET OUT AND VOTE FOR REPUBLICAN CANDIDATESFox News, 5:13 PM ET: TRUMP: GET OUT AND VOTE FOR REPUBLICAN CANDIDATESFox News, 5:24 PM ET: TRUMP: GET OUT AND VOTE FOR REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES
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.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP headline nearly word for word (Chicago Tribune)

📌 linked by aggregators: Political Wire Google News

💬 quoted: “jihadist” 4 “Jihadist” 3 “a**” “earpiece” “They never talk about my crowd!”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 trump escalates 🫏 trump invokes 9 11

✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Breitbart (2 wordings): “Trump Blasts ‘Jihadist’ El-Sayed for Portraying Himself as Doctor” → “…Trump Criticizes ‘Jihadist’ El-Sayed ’Should Not Be Allowed to Serve in Our Senate’…”
  • HuffPost (2 wordings): “Trump’s Midterm Swing Brings Him To Michigan As GOP Aims To Undermine El-Sayed” → “Trump Gives A Crude Shoutout To Nicki Minaj At Michigan Rally”
  • Newsmax (2 wordings): “Trump Steps Up Attacks on El-Sayed in Mich. Senate Race” → “Trump Rips El-Sayed Over Extremist Ties”
  • The Washington Post (2 wordings): “Trump calls El-Sayed a ‘jihadist’ as he escalates campaign rhetoric” → “Trump calls El-Sayed a ‘jihadist’ as he escalates campaign rhetoric - The Washington Post”
  • Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “El Sayed mocks Rogers’s ‘earpiece’ and Trump’s ‘a**’ remarks in Grand Rapids rally” → “El Sayed mocks Rogers and Trump’s Nicki Minaj remarks at rally”
Every outlet's first headline (17), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

Fox News19 s
  • TRUMP: GET OUT AND VOTE FOR REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES Fox News, 19 s

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 🎙️ Reuters World News 📺 MeidasTouch 🎙️ NPR Politics Podcast

🧶 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: Michigan Donald Trump Barack Obama Senate El-Sayed and Rogers Senate race

🔎 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.