Texas Senate race remains competitive with Talarico and Paxton in contention

🗞️ Story file #1016

Texas Senate race remains competitive with Talarico and Paxton in contention

Oct 27, 12 PM ET to Oct 28, 5 AM ET

7outlets carried it
🫏2 · 3 · 2🐘left · center · right
17 hourson the front pages
6front pages at once, at its peak
16 minof TV captions
1fact-check
2 of 2parts of a saga

👣 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, 12 PM ETfirst on a front page: Washington Examiner
Oct 27, 12 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 27, 12 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 27, 12 PM to Oct 28, 5 AM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

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.

📌 linked by aggregators: Drudge Report

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

The Epoch Times (2 wordings): “Paxton, Talarico Battle in Competitive Texas Senate Race” → “🎧 The Battle for Texas Senate”
Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “Why some Texas Republicans are rallying against Talarico more than for Paxton” → “Anti-Talarico sentiment drives turnout for Paxton in tight Texas Senate race”

Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating

ABC News Battle for the Senate Oct 26, 6 AM ET
Yahoo News The battle for the Senate is tightening in some unlikely places Oct 26, 12 PM ET
Financial Times Dirty tricks and Maga theatrics shake up bruising battle for Texas Senate Oct 27, 2 PM ET
News Nation Libertarian Texas Senate candidate says he's not taking votes away from Paxton, Talarico Oct 25, 4 PM ET
Newsweek James Talarico vs. Ken Paxton—What Texas Polls Show One Week Before Midterm Oct 27, 6 AM ET
The Epoch Times Paxton, Talarico Battle in Competitive Texas Senate Race Oct 25, 3 PM ET
Washington Examiner Why some Texas Republicans are rallying against Talarico more than for Paxton Oct 27, 12 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN11 min

Fox News3 min

MSNOW77 s

REPUBLICAN TEXAS STATE REP IS NOT VOTING FOR KEN PAXTON CNN, 5 min
CNN POLL OF POLLS: NO CLEAR LEADER IN TEXAS RACE FOR U.S. SENATE CNN, 3 min
FORMER TEXAS CHIEF JUSTICE, A REPUBLICAN, BACKS TALARICO FOR SENATE CNN, 2 min
T. ALARICO RITS PAXTON ON CORRUPTION & AFFORDABILITY MSNOW, 72 s
OH SENATE RACE MOVES FROM TOSS-UP TO LEAN DEM Fox News, 69 s
PAXTON CALLS TALARICO "MOST RADICAL" DEM TO EVER RUN IN TEXAS CNN, 59 s
TRUMP CAMPAIGNS FOR PAXTON IN TIGHT TX SENATE RACE Fox News, 47 s
CELEBRITIES THROW SUPPORT BEHIND JAMES TALARICO Fox News, 40 s

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: Ken Paxton James Talarico Texas Libertarian Party Republican Party

what the fact-checkers looked into

🔎 FactCheck.org: Paxton Ad Takes Talarico Taxes Comments Out of Context

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Texas Senate race

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Texas Senate race remains competitive with Talarico and Paxton in contention (this story)
Oct 27, 12 PM ET

Texas Senate race remains competitive with Talarico and Paxton in contention

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🧵 Texas Senate race