🧵 Saga file #73
Trump midterms rally events
Oct 19, 6 PM ET to Oct 24, 4 PM ET
- 3parts so far
- 35outlets carried a part
- 🫏15 · 7 · 11🐘left · center · right
- 4.9 daysrunning so far
- 160 minof TV captions
- 66radio newscasts
- 16people retold it online
🧵 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 20, 8 PM ET · on the front pages 16 hoursTrump warns of potential national crisis if Democrats win midterms
- Oct 22, 12 AM ET · on the front pages 1.5 daysTrump praises supporter who punched protester at rally
- Oct 19, 6 PM ET · on the front pages 4.9 daysTrump holds midterm rally in Florida with Byron Donalds
📰 Spread
each part on the front pages, hour by hour
🧩 The parts
each one opens its own page
1. Trump warns of potential national crisis if Democrats win midterms
Oct 20, 8 PM ET · 3 outlets · on the front pages 16 hours
“Trump warns Paris will become ‘Muslim city’ unless France closes borders” first: Washington Examiner
📺 CNN 3 min
2. Trump praises supporter who punched protester at rally
Oct 22, 12 AM ET · 12 outlets · on the front pages 1.5 days
“WATCH: Multiple Protesters Hauled Out of Trump Rally Again as Crowd Chants “USA!” and Trump Trolls “LOSERS” – “They Get Home and Smacked in the Face by Mom and Dad”” first: The Gateway Pundit
📺 CNN 4 min
3. Trump holds midterm rally in Florida with Byron Donalds
Oct 19, 6 PM ET · 31 outlets · on the front pages 4.9 days
“Trump to head to Kansas to show support for embattled Marshall” first: The Guardian
📺 CNN 110 min, Fox News 28 min, MSNOW 12 min, BBC News 2 min · 📻 66 newscasts · 🧶 retold by 16
🧩 How it's been told
the stories under the saga, day by day, from our motif index (✨ new to the saga that day)
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
- White House Communications Director Steven Cheung is considering Nicki Minaj to be the next White House press secretary. told by 9 people, on “Trump holds midterm rally in Florida with Byron Donalds”
- Donald Trump uses offensive and bigoted rhetoric to energize and turn on his base of supporters. told by 7 people, on “Trump holds midterm rally in Florida with Byron Donalds”