Trump and Obama exchange barbs in final days of midterm campaign

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Trump and Obama exchange barbs in final days of midterm campaign

Oct 28, 10 PM ET to Oct 30, 2 AM ET

9outlets carried it
🫏4 · 4 · 1🐘left · center · right
1.2 dayson the front pages
10front pages at once, at its peak
92 minof TV captions
13 of 49parts of a saga

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Oct 28, 10 PM ETfirst on a front page: AP
Oct 28, 11 PM ETfirst on TV: MSNOW
Oct 29, 8 AM ETpeak: on 10 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 28, 10 PM to Oct 30, 2 AM ET (peak 9), 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, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 Wire copy

2 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word

Chicago Tribune, Scripps News

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

Reuters (2 wordings): “Trump, Obama pound campaign trail in closing week of US midterm election” → “Trump and Obama trade barbs in closing week of US midterm election”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “Obama campaigns in Georgia as Trump stumps in Ohio in dueling midterms rallies” → “Trump and Obama trade barbs on campaign trail in final days before midterm election”

📰 Every outlet's headline 9left to right by AllSides rating

The Guardian🕒 Oct 28, 7 PM ET Obama campaigns in Georgia as Trump stumps in Ohio in dueling midterms rallies
AP🕒 Oct 28, 10 PM ET Trump in Ohio and Obama in Georgia make closing stretch appeals to midterm voters in pivotal states
CBS News🕒 Oct 28, 10 PM ET Obama and Trump hold dueling rallies as midterm campaigns make final pitch
Yahoo News🕒 Oct 29, 2 AM ET Trump and Obama exchange barbs as both try to sway voters in key Senate races
Chicago Tribune🕒 Oct 29, 8 AM ET Donald Trump in Ohio and Barack Obama in Georgia make closing stretch appeals to midterm voters
Newsweek🕒 Oct 28, 8 AM ET Obama vs. Trump Popularity Compared as Both Rally in Key Midterm States
Reuters🕒 Oct 28, 8 PM ET Trump, Obama pound campaign trail in closing week of US midterm election
Scripps News🕒 Oct 28, 9 PM ET Trump in Ohio and Obama in Georgia make closing appeals to midterm voters
New York Post🕒 Oct 29, 12 AM ET Trump, Obama trade barbs at dueling primetime rallies days before midterm elections

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.

podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation

🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces

🕵️🤷 No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.

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 TrumpBarack ObamaOhioGeorgia2026 midterm elections

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

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Trump and Obama exchange barbs in final days of midterm campaign

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