Trump cancels weekend rallies, plans phone-in campaign events

🗞️ Story file #1140

Trump cancels weekend rallies, plans phone-in campaign events

Oct 29, 3 PM ET to Oct 30, 6 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

22outlets carried it
🫏11 · 5 · 5🐘left · center · right
15 hourson the front pages
22front pages at once, at its peak
121 minof TV captions
7radio newscasts
106people retold it online
1 of 2parts of a saga

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Oct 29, 3 PM ETfirst on a front page: Alternet
Oct 29, 4 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 29, 5 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Oct 30, 4 AM ETretold online by 106 people
Oct 30, 6 AM ETpeak: on 22 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 29, 3 PM to Oct 30, 6 AM ET (peak 22), 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, 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.

💬 Quoted

“Doing So Well”1

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📌 Linked by aggregators

3 Drudge Report · Google News · Political Wire

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

✏️ 7 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

HuffPost (3 wordings): “Trump Cancels Saturday’s Planned Rally for Kansas GOP Sen. Roger Marshall” → “Trump Cancels Weekend’s Planned Rallies In Kansas And Iowa”
Just the News (2 wordings): “Trump bails on Kansas rally, will hold string of virtual events instead” → “Trump cancels weekend rally in Kansas to instead hold virtual campaign events”
Mediaite (2 wordings): “Trump Cancels Red State Rally Same Day New Poll Shows Republican Senator 4-Points Down” → “GOP Senator Says Trump Scrapped Rally in His State Because He’s ‘Doing So Well’ — As New Poll Shows Him Trailing”
The Hill (2 wordings): “Trump to join tele-rallies 19 states after midterm event cancellations” → “Trump cancels midterm rallies in Kansas, Iowa”
The Washington Post (3 wordings): “Trump cancels Kansas rally before midterm elections to hold virtual events” → “Trump cancels Kansas rally before midterm elections to hold virtual events - The Washington Post”
The Washington Sun (2 wordings): “Trump Scraps a Weekend Trip to Kansas” → “Trump Cancels In-Person Rallies in Kansas and Iowa”
Yahoo News (2 wordings): “Trump cancels pair of weekend rallies in last-minute strategy shift” → “Trump cancels weekend rallies in last-minute strategy shift”

Every outlet's first headline (22), left to right by AllSides rating

Alternet Confusion as Trump abruptly cancels planned rally amid protests, low turnout Oct 29, 3 PM ET
HuffPost Trump Cancels Saturday’s Planned Rally for Kansas GOP Sen. Roger Marshall Oct 29, 3 PM ET
The Daily Beast Trump Cancels Campaign Rallies after Humiliating Protests Oct 29, 11 PM ET
AP Trump cancels rallies in Kansas and Iowa, opting for telerallies to reach more voters, RNC says Oct 29, 8 PM ET
Mediaite Trump Cancels Red State Rally Same Day New Poll Shows Republican Senator 4-Points Down Oct 29, 4 PM ET
NBC News Trump cancels Saturday event in Kansas as he shifts to more tele-rallies Oct 29, 7 PM ET
New York Times Trump Cancels Rallies in Kansas and Iowa This Weekend Oct 30, 3 AM ET
The Independent Trump cancels his appearance at weekend rally in Kansas days before midterm vote Oct 29, 2 PM ET
The Washington Post Trump cancels Kansas rally before midterm elections to hold virtual events Oct 29, 3 PM ET
USA Today With midterms days away, Trump cancels 2 rallies Oct 29, 11 PM ET
Yahoo News Trump cancels pair of weekend rallies in last-minute strategy shift Oct 29, 9 PM ET
Bloomberg Trump Cancels Rallies, Switches to Remote Midterm Campaigning Oct 29, 10 PM ET
Newsweek Trump Cancels Kansas Rally as New Poll Shows Republican Trailing Democrat Oct 29, 3 PM ET
Reuters Trump cancels weekend rallies, plans to phone in to other midterm campaign events Oct 29, 11 PM ET
Scripps News Trump scraps Kansas campaign stop amid signs of trouble for Senate Republicans Oct 29, 3 PM ET
The Hill Trump to join tele-rallies 19 states after midterm event cancellations Oct 29, 10 PM ET
Just the News Trump bails on Kansas rally, will hold string of virtual events instead Oct 29, 3 PM ET
The Epoch Times Trump Cancels Weekend Rallies, Shifts to Phone-In Midterm Events Oct 30, 6 AM ET
The Washington Times Trump cancels Kansas rally just days before Election Day Oct 29, 6 PM ET
IJR Trump Cancels Rallies, Plans Phone-In Campaign Events Oct 29, 10 PM ET
Red State President Trump Cancels Rally in Kansas at Last Moment, Then Makes Big Announcement Oct 29, 2 PM ET
The Washington Sun Trump Scraps a Weekend Trip to Kansas Oct 29, 2 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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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

🧶 Retold online

Donald Trump is suffering from advanced dementia and declining health. Oct 30: told by 106 people; told before on Oct 27, Oct 26, Oct 24, Oct 23, Oct 22, Oct 22, Oct 16, Oct 13, Oct 4
🦋 Widely seen on Bluesky

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🗣️ Names in it

Donald TrumpRoger MarshallRepublican PartyKansas

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

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Oct 29, 3 PM ET
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Oct 29, 8 PM ET