🧵 Saga file #27
El-Sayed and Obama campaign partnership
Oct 5, 3 PM ET to Oct 13, 2 PM ET
- 2parts so far
- 30outlets carried a part
- 🫏9 · 4 · 16🐘left · center · right
- 8 daysrunning so far
- 141 minof TV captions
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 5, 3 PM ET · on the front pages 2.1 daysBarack Obama to campaign with Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan
- Oct 8, 5 PM ET · on the front pages 4.9 daysAbdul El-Sayed addresses past criticism of Obama
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🧩 The parts
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1. Barack Obama to campaign with Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan
Oct 5, 3 PM ET · 20 outlets · on the front pages 2.1 days
“Barack Obama is to appear with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit” first: Chicago Tribune, Newsmax, The Hill
📺 CNN 22 min, Fox News 20 min, MSNOW 3 min
2. Abdul El-Sayed addresses past criticism of Obama
Oct 8, 5 PM ET · 14 outlets · on the front pages 4.9 days
“KFILE ‘The list of his failures goes on’: El-Sayed’s Obama criticism resurfaced ahead of campaign rally” first: CNN
📺 CNN 47 min, Fox News 26 min, MSNOW 23 min
🧩 How it's been told
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🧶 Retelling
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🦗 Nobody's retelling any part of it online yet, as far as the daily report can tell.