🗞️ Story file #1012
North Carolina Senate candidate taken into custody after armed standoff
Oct 27, 10 AM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET
- 8outlets carried it
- 🫏0 · 1 · 7🐘left · center · right
- 20 hourson the front pages
- 8front pages at once, at its peak
- 2 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 27, 10 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Post Millennial
- Oct 27, 3 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
- Oct 27, 6 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 quoted: “I have 6 rounds and the high ground”
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Townhall (3 wordings): “Senate Candidate in Custody After Armed Police Standoff Jeff Charles” → “Crime Senate Candidate in Custody After Armed Police Standoff Jeff Charles”
Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating
News Nation
Politician in custody after hourslong standoff that included interview Oct 26, 8 PM ET
Washington Examiner
North Carolina state Senate candidate arrested after armed standoff Oct 26, 11 PM ET
New York Post
Unhinged NC state Senate candidate arrested after live-posting through police standoff: ‘I have 6 rounds and the high ground’ Oct 26, 5 PM ET
PJ Media
North Carolina Libertarian Candidate in Custody After Armed Standoff Oct 27, 9 AM ET
The Blaze
North Carolina state Senate candidate makes disturbing threat online before hours-long standoff, police say Oct 26, 7 PM ET
The Daily Caller
N.C. Senate Candidate Leads Police On Hourslong Pursuit After Wellness Check Over Suicidal Posts Oct 26, 8 PM ET
The Post Millennial
Suicidal Libertarian candidate for NC state Senate taken into custody after live-posting through hours-long standoff with police Oct 27, 10 AM ET
Townhall
Senate Candidate in Custody After Armed Police Standoff Jeff Charles Oct 27, 3 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- DEMS LOOK TO FLIP NC SENATE SEAT IN COOPER VS. WHATLEY RACE CNN, 2 min
- POLICE STANDOFF. NORTH CAROLINA STATE SENATE CANDIDATE IN CUSTODY Fox News, 22 s
🧶 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: North Carolina Libertarian Party North Carolina Libertarian Candidate North Carolina State Senate
🔎 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.