BND - Barack Obama to campaign with Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan

🗞️ Story file #108

Barack Obama to campaign with Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan

Oct 5, 3 PM ET to Oct 7, 5 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

20outlets carried it
🫏4 · 4 · 11🐘left · center · right
2.1 dayson the front pages
17front pages at once, at its peak
45 minof TV captions
1 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 5, 3 PM ETfirst on a front page: New York Post
Oct 5, 4 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 6, 3 PM ETpeak: on 17 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 5, 3 PM to Oct 7, 5 PM ET (peak 17), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated

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.

💬 quoted: “Honor and Privilege”

✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Bloomberg (3 wordings): “Obama Plans Detroit Rally to Boost El-Sayed in Tight Senate Race The former president’s Oct. 24 appearance underscores the stakes for Democrats in Michigan.” → “Obama Plans Detroit Rally With El-Sayed in Tight Senate Race”
Just the News (2 wordings): “Barack Obama to campaign with Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan” → “Obama to campaign with fellow Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in key Michigan Senate race”
The Gateway Pundit (2 wordings): “SIGNS OF TROUBLE? Democrats Sending Obama to Michigan to Campaign for Abdul El-Sayed” → “SIGNS OF DESPERATION? Democrats Send Barack Hussein Obama to Michigan to Campaign for Abdul El-Sayed”
Townhall (2 wordings): “This Explains Why Barack Obama Is Heading to Michigan to Stump for Abdul El-Sayed Amy Curtis” → “Abdul El-Sayed This Explains Why Barack Obama Is Heading to Michigan to Stump for Abdul El-Sayed Amy Curtis”
Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “El Sayed announces campaign stops with Obama, AOC, and Mamdani” → “El Sayed announces campaign stops with Obama, AOC, Mamdani”

Every outlet's first headline (20), left to right by AllSides rating

The Guardian Obama to appear at Abdul El-Sayed rally in critical Michigan Senate race Oct 5, 5 PM ET
Mediaite ‘Honor and Privilege’: Barack Obama to Join Abdul El-Sayed on the Campaign Trail Oct 5, 5 PM ET
PBS NewsHour Obama to campaign with El-Sayed in Detroit as ex-president gets more involved in midterms Oct 5, 2 PM ET
Politico Obama to campaign with El-Sayed and Benson in Michigan Oct 5, 2 PM ET
Bloomberg Obama Plans Detroit Rally to Boost El-Sayed in Tight Senate Race The former president’s Oct. 24 appearance underscores the stakes for Democrats in Michigan. Oct 5, 4 PM ET
Chicago Tribune Barack Obama is to appear with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit Oct 5, 1 PM ET
Newsweek Obama to Make Michigan Midterm Push With Abdul El-Sayed Campaign Event Oct 5, 4 PM ET
The Hill Obama to rally for El-Sayed in Michigan Oct 5, 1 PM ET
Just the News Barack Obama to campaign with Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan Oct 5, 5 PM ET
The Epoch Times Obama Makes Ads for Democrats, Plans Detroit Rally With El-Sayed in Final Midterm Stretch Oct 6, 5 PM ET
The Washington Times Obama to campaign in Michigan with El-Sayed, Benson Oct 5, 6 PM ET
Washington Examiner El Sayed announces campaign stops with Obama, AOC, and Mamdani Oct 5, 2 PM ET
IJR Obama to rally with El-Sayed at Detroit campaign event Oct 7, 8 AM ET
New York Post Obama to campaign for Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit for final stretch before midterms Oct 5, 3 PM ET
Newsmax Obama to Campaign With El-Sayed in Michigan Oct 5, 1 PM ET
PJ Media Obama to Campaign in Michigan for El-Sayed — Because It’s the Next Phase of the Revolution Oct 6, 3 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit SIGNS OF TROUBLE? Democrats Sending Obama to Michigan to Campaign for Abdul El-Sayed Oct 6, 9 AM ET
The Post Millennial Obama to campaign for El-Sayed in Michigan Oct 5, 4 PM ET
Townhall This Explains Why Barack Obama Is Heading to Michigan to Stump for Abdul El-Sayed Amy Curtis Oct 7, 4 PM ET
The Washington Sun Barack Obama to Campaign With Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit Oct 5, 3 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN22 min

Fox News20 min

MSNOW3 min

EL-SAYED CONTINUES FOX APPEARANCES AMID TRUMP BACKLASH CNN, 16 min
DEMS CALL IN OBAMA AS KAMALA TALKS IN CIRCLES Fox News, 6 min
EL-SAYED PRIVATELY PREDICTS HE'LL WIN MICHIGAN BY 7 PTS CNN, 3 min
CLOSER-IN-CHIEF. DEMS BANK ON OBAMA DRAGGING THEM OVER FINISH LINE Fox News, 3 min
"TRANS BILL OF RIGHTS". DSA CANDIDATE DREAMS UP WISH LIST FOR HAKEEM Fox News, 2 min
EL-SAYED STRUGGLES WITH KEY DEMOCRATIC VOTING BLOCK Fox News, 2 min
EL-SAYED: "I'VE SHOWED UP AND LISTENED" TO "EVERY COMMUNITY" CNN, 2 min
TRUMP SAYS HE'LL CAMPAIGN IN MICHIGAN, MAY GO TO MAINE CNN, 84 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: Abdul El-Sayed Barack Obama Michigan Detroit

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 El-Sayed and Obama campaign partnership

Barack Obama to campaign with Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan (this story)
Oct 5, 3 PM ET
Abdul El-Sayed addresses past criticism of Obama
Oct 8, 5 PM ET

Barack Obama to campaign with Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan

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🧵 El-Sayed and Obama campaign partnership