El-Sayed campaign asks Stevens to stay away from final events

🗞️ Story file #1205

El-Sayed campaign asks Stevens to stay away from final events

Oct 31, 11 AM ET to Nov 2, 8 PM ET

24outlets carried it
🫏10 · 4 · 10🐘left · center · right
2.4 dayson the front pages
23front pages at once, at its peak
20 minof TV captions
7radio newscasts
7people retold it online
6 of 8parts of a saga

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Oct 31, 11 AM ETfirst on a front page: Red State
Oct 31, 12 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 31, 3 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 31, 9 PM ETpeak: on 23 front pages
Nov 1, 4 AM ETretold online by 7 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 31, 11 AM to Nov 2, 8 PM ET (peak 22), 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.

💬 Quoted

“Is What Happens To Women”1
“condemn”1
“distractions”1
“Rat F*ck”1
“Relitigating A Primary That Ended Three Months Ago”1
“Lock in”1
“Stay Away From All Future Campaign Events”1
“relitigating”1

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

📌 Linked by aggregators

2 Google News · Real Clear Politics

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

✏️ 12 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

CBS News (2 wordings): “El-Sayed and Stevens feud ahead of key Michigan Senate race” → “El-Sayed asks fellow Democrat Stevens not to attend final campaign events”
HuffPost (3 wordings): “FIREWORKS: El-Sayed’s Campaign Asks Haley Stevens To Avoid Events After Bizarre Series Of Acts” → “Haley Stevens Says El-Sayed Campaign Sidelining Her ‘Is What Happens To Women’”
Mediaite (2 wordings): “El-Sayed Campaign Reportedly Tells Haley Stevens To ‘Stay Away From All Future Campaign Events’” → “Abdul El-Sayed Gets Asked If Haley Stevens Is Trying ‘Rat F*ck’ His Campaign Amid Brewing Feud”
New York Post (4 wordings): “El-Sayed tells former Michigan rival to stay away — as feud boils over days before midterm” → “El-Sayed tells former Michigan rival to keep away — as feud boils over days before midterms”
New York Times (2 wordings): “Why Haley Stevens Can’t Stop Talking About Abdul El-Sayed” → “El-Sayed’s Campaign Doesn’t Want Haley Stevens at His Events”
Newsmax (2 wordings): “El-Sayed Campaign Tells Stevens to Stay Away Amid Michigan Feud” → “El-Sayed Campaign Tells Stevens to Stay Away”
The Guardian (3 wordings): “Abdul El-Sayed resists efforts from Haley Stevens to corner him on Israel” → “Haley Stevens advised to stay away from Abdul El-Sayed campaign events to limit ‘distractions’”
The Hill (3 wordings): “El-Sayed accuses Stevens of ‘relitigating’ primary after calls for apology ...” → “El-Sayed drops Stevens from campaign event”
The Washington Post (3 wordings): “El-Sayed asks Stevens to stay away as Democrats’ attempt at unity blows up” → “‘Lock in’: Michigan Democrats look to stop open fighting in key Senate race”
The Washington Times (2 wordings): “Haley Stevens rekindles Israel dispute, muddying El-Sayed's closing unity pitch” → “Stevens rekindles Israel dispute, muddying El-Sayed's closing unity pitch”
Washington Examiner (9 wordings): “El Sayed and Stevens feud explodes days before Michigan Senate showdown” → “El Sayed asks Haley Stevens to stay away from campaign events in 11th-hour feud”
Yahoo News (4 wordings): “Abdul El-Sayed vs. Mike Rogers: Who has a better chance of winning Michigan's marquee Senate battle?” → “Midterm elections live updates: El-Sayed and Stevens no longer campaigning together”

📰 Every outlet's headline 24left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost🕒 Oct 30, 11 PM ET FIREWORKS: El-Sayed’s Campaign Asks Haley Stevens To Avoid Events After Bizarre Series Of Acts
The Guardian🕒 Oct 30, 9 PM ET Abdul El-Sayed resists efforts from Haley Stevens to corner him on Israel
AP🕒 Nov 1, 12 PM ET Michigan Democrats’ unity push falters as Stevens is asked to skip event with El-Sayed
CBS News🕒 Oct 30, 9 PM ET El-Sayed and Stevens feud ahead of key Michigan Senate race
Mediaite🕒 Oct 31, 1 AM ET El-Sayed Campaign Reportedly Tells Haley Stevens To ‘Stay Away From All Future Campaign Events’
New York Times🕒 Oct 31, 6 AM ET Why Haley Stevens Can’t Stop Talking About Abdul El-Sayed
Politico🕒 Oct 30, 9 PM ET El-Sayed campaign wants Stevens to stay away after day of back-and-forth sniping
The Washington Post🕒 Oct 31, 12 AM ET El-Sayed asks Stevens to stay away as Democrats’ attempt at unity blows up
USA Today🕒 Oct 31, 12 AM ET El-Sayed asks Stevens not to attend final events in key Michigan race
Yahoo News🕒 Oct 30, 6 PM ET Abdul El-Sayed vs. Mike Rogers: Who has a better chance of winning Michigan's marquee Senate battle?
Financial Times🕒 Oct 31, 9 PM ET Michigan feud threatens Democratic unity in key Senate race
News Nation🕒 Oct 31, 1 PM ET El-Sayed campaign asks Haley Stevens to stay away from final campaign events
Newsweek🕒 Oct 31, 3 PM ET Haley Stevens’ Fiancé Escalates El-Sayed Feud Days Before Midterms
The Hill🕒 Oct 31, 9 AM ET El-Sayed accuses Stevens of ‘relitigating’ primary after calls for apology ...
Just the News🕒 Oct 31, 6 PM ET Michigan Senate Democrat candidate Abdul El-Sayed disinvites Rep. Haley Stevens from campaign event
The Washington Times🕒 Oct 31, 12 PM ET Haley Stevens rekindles Israel dispute, muddying El-Sayed's closing unity pitch
Washington Examiner🕒 Oct 31, 12 AM ET El Sayed and Stevens feud explodes days before Michigan Senate showdown
Breitbart🕒 Oct 31, 4 PM ET Video: El-Sayed's Event with Haley Stevens Falls Apart over Anti-Israel Ad
IJR🕒 Nov 1, 2 AM ET El-Sayed Campaign Bars Stevens Amid Party Rift
New York Post🕒 Oct 31, 10 AM ET El-Sayed tells former Michigan rival to stay away — as feud boils over days before midterm
Newsmax🕒 Oct 31, 1 PM ET El-Sayed Campaign Tells Stevens to Stay Away Amid Michigan Feud
Red State🕒 Oct 31, 11 AM ET Dems in Disarray? El-Sayed's Response to Haley Stevens Looks Like Implosion Among the Ranks
The Post Millennial🕒 Oct 31, 12 PM ET Abdul El-Sayed breaks with Dem Rep Haley Stevens after she demands he 'condemn' antisemitic campaign ad
Townhall🕒 Oct 31, 7 AM ET Bloody Wonderland: Stevens and El-Sayed Rip Into Each Other Ahead of Joint Presser

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🕵️ 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

Abdul El-Sayed's campaign is disinviting Haley Stevens from events to limit distractions. Nov 1: told by 7 people
🦋 Widely seen on Bluesky

🦋 a post on Bluesky · 3 likes, 0 reposts

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ Names in it

Haley StevensEl-SayedFIREWORKSCampaign for El-SayedDemocrat

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Michigan Senate race

Barack Obama to campaign with Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan
Oct 5, 3 PM ET
Abdul El-Sayed addresses past criticism of Obama
Oct 8, 5 PM ET
Obama campaigns for El-Sayed in Detroit
Oct 25, 8 AM ET
Rep. Haley Stevens criticizes Abdul El-Sayed over primary dispute
Oct 29, 12 PM ET
Abdul el Sayed and Haley Stevens campaign together in Michigan Senate race
Oct 30, 12 AM ET
El-Sayed campaign asks Stevens to stay away from final events (this story)
Oct 31, 11 AM ET
Haley Stevens faces backlash over recent actions
Nov 2, 9 PM ET
Haley Stevens endorses Mike Rogers in Michigan Senate race
Nov 1, 1 PM ET