🧵 Saga file #9
Ken Paxton Senate Campaign Controversy
Oct 4, 6 PM ET to Oct 6, 6 PM ET
- 2parts so far
- 22outlets carried a part
- 🫏8 · 4 · 9🐘left · center · right
- 2 daysrunning so far
- 17 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 4, 6 PM ET · on the front pages 1.6 daysAngela Paxton endorses Texas GOP ticket
- Oct 5, 1 PM ET · on the front pages 1.2 daysKen Paxton admits campaign is controlled by Washington in leaked audio
📰 Spread
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🧩 The parts
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1. Angela Paxton endorses Texas GOP ticket
Oct 4, 6 PM ET · 12 outlets · on the front pages 1.6 days
“Ken Paxton’s Estranged Wife Makes Her Choice In Texas Senate Race” first: The Daily Wire, The Washington Times
📺 CNN 8 min, Fox News 2 min
2. Ken Paxton admits campaign is controlled by Washington in leaked audio
Oct 5, 1 PM ET · 16 outlets · on the front pages 1.2 days
“Talarico leads Paxton by 2 points in tightening Texas Senate race” first: News Nation
📺 CNN 5 min, MSNOW 2 min
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
🦗 Nobody's retelling any part of it online yet, as far as the daily report can tell.