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🗞️ Story file #1098

Trump demands Peltola be removed from Alaska Senate race ballot

Oct 28, 6 PM ET to Oct 28, 8 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

👣 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.

  1. Oct 28, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
  2. Oct 28, 6 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
  3. Oct 28, 8 PM ETpeak: on 20 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 28, 7 PM8 PM1020leftcenterrightnot rated
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 28, 6 PM to Oct 28, 8 PM ET (peak 20), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated
Oct 286 AM12 PM6 PMFox NewsFox NewsFox News, Oct 27, 2:00 PM ET: Trump accused of trying to 'force' Senate candidate on voters as GOP feud eruptsBloombergBloombergBloomberg, Oct 28, 4:00 PM ET: Trump Calls for Peltola to Be Banned From Alaska Senate RaceThe Washington SunThe Washington SunThe Washington Sun, Oct 28, 4:00 PM ET: Trump Says Peltola Should Face ‘Legal and Political Consequences’ for Dan Sullivan RecruitmentWashington ExaminerWashington ExaminerWashington Examiner, Oct 28, 4:00 PM ET: Trump: Peltola and other Dan Sullivan should be thrown off the ballotWashington Examiner, Oct 28, 8:00 PM ET: Trump says Peltola and other Dan Sullivan should be thrown off ballotNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 28, 4:00 PM ET: Trump Demands Action Against Peltola Over Alaska RaceNewsmax, Oct 28, 7:01 PM ET: Trump Demands Action on Peltola in Alaska RaceMediaiteMediaiteMediaite, Oct 28, 4:00 PM ET: ‘A FRAUD ON THE AMERICAN PUBLIC!’ Trump Issues Fiery Call for Alaska Dem to Be Thrown Off Ballot After NYT Exposes Campaign’s Dirty TrickThe IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent, Oct 28, 5:01 PM ET: Trump demands Alaska ballot change after report on Dems recruiting Dan Sullivan to campaignJust the NewsJust the NewsJust the News, Oct 28, 5:01 PM ET: Trump says Peltola shouldn't be allowed to run after NYT's 'Dan Sullivan' reportRed StateRed StateRed State, Oct 28, 5:01 PM ET: Trump Unleashes Broadside at Peltola After NYTimes Spoiler ReportHuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Oct 28, 6:00 PM ET: Trump Demands Mary Peltola Be Taken Off Alaska Senate Race Ballot After NYT ReportThe National DeskThe National DeskThe National Desk, Oct 28, 6:00 PM ET: Trump: Peltola 'shouldn't be allowed to run' after 'election fraud' in Alaska Senate racePBS NewsHourPBS NewsHourPBS NewsHour, Oct 28, 6:00 PM ET: WATCH: Trump calls for Peltola to drop out after report her campaign helped recruit 2nd Dan SullivanPBS NewsHour, Oct 28, 8:00 PM ET: Trump calls for prosecution of Alaska Senate candidate Peltola over Sullivan name controversyThe Washington TimesThe Washington TimesThe Washington Times, Oct 28, 6:00 PM ET: Trump seizes on 'fake' Dan Sullivan report, calls for Peltola's removal from Alaska ballotFinancial TimesFinancial TimesFinancial Times, Oct 28, 6:00 PM ET: Trump calls for Alaska Democratic candidate to be banned from Senate raceThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 28, 6:00 PM ET: Trump rages at Alaska Democrat whose campaign reportedly recruited man with same name as Republican opponentNewsweekNewsweekNewsweek, Oct 28, 6:00 PM ET: Trump Responds After Bombshell Report on Alaska’s Two Dan Sullivans DisputeThe Daily WireThe Daily WireThe Daily Wire, Oct 28, 6:00 PM ET: Trump Accuses Dems Of ‘Fake’ Candidate Scheme In Crucial Senate RaceBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 28, 7:01 PM ET: Trump: Democrats’ Fake Alaska Senate Candidate Scheme ‘A Fraud on the American Public’Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneChicago Tribune, Oct 28, 7:01 PM ET: Trump calls for prosecution of Democratic Alaska Senate candidate over spoiler candidate controversyCBS NewsCBS NewsCBS News, Oct 28, 8:00 PM ET: Trump says Peltola "shouldn't be allowed to run" due to second Dan Sullivan📺 TVFox News, 6:02 PM ET: ALASKA SENATE RACE. REPORT ABOUT PELTOLA CAMPAIGN EFFORT ON BALLOT NAMESFox News, 6:04 PM ET: ALASKA SENATE RACE. REPORT ABOUT PELTOLA CAMPAIGN EFFORT ON BALLOT NAMESCNN, 6:10 PM ET: TRUMP LASHES OUT AFTER NYT STORY ON ALASKA
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

  1. “A Fraud on the American Public”2
  2. “Fake”2
  3. “shouldn't be allowed to run”2
  4. “Dan Sullivan”1
  5. “fake”2
  6. “election fraud”1
  7. “Legal and Political Consequences”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Political Wire

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Newsmax (2 wordings): “Trump Demands Action Against Peltola Over Alaska Race” → “Trump Demands Action on Peltola in Alaska Race”
  • PBS NewsHour (2 wordings): “WATCH: Trump calls for Peltola to drop out after report her campaign helped recruit 2nd Dan Sullivan” → “Trump calls for prosecution of Alaska Senate candidate Peltola over Sullivan name controversy”
  • Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “Trump: Peltola and other Dan Sullivan should be thrown off the ballot” → “Trump says Peltola and other Dan Sullivan should be thrown off ballot”
Every outlet's first headline (20), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

  1. 🐘 Fox News 35 s
  2. 🫏 CNN 14 s

📻 On the radio

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📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.

🧶 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

Donald TrumpMary PeltolaAlaskaDan SullivanSenate

🔎 Checking

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🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Alaska Senate race controversy

  1. Alaska democrats recruited second Dan Sullivan for Senate race

    Oct 28, 2 PM ET

  2. Trump demands Peltola be removed from Alaska Senate race ballot (this story)

    Oct 28, 6 PM ET