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🗞️ Story file #1440

Alaska Senate race remains too close to call

Nov 5, 4 AM ET to Nov 5, 11 AM ET

📰 read it at: Newsweek Straight Arrow News Just the News Washington Examiner Fox News The Western Journal

👣 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. Nov 5, 4 AM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
  2. Nov 5, 11 AM ETfirst on a front page: Fox News

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Nov 5, 6 AM8 AM10 AM36centerright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 5, 4 AM to Nov 5, 11 AM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: center · right
Nov 4, 12 PM6 PMNov 56 AMStraight Arrow NewsStraight Arrow NewsStraight Arrow News, Nov 4, 7:01 AM ET: Alaska Senate race remains razor-thin as ranked-choice voting could decide winnerThe Western JournalThe Western JournalThe Western Journal, Nov 4, 5:01 PM ET: Latest Numbers: 'Decoy' Candidate Could Cost Republicans a Senate Seat as Alaska Race Comes Down to the WireWashington ExaminerWashington ExaminerWashington Examiner, Nov 4, 7:01 PM ET: DOJ stays quiet on Alaska investigations as Senate race too close to callWashington Examiner, Nov 4, 11:01 PM ET: DOJ quiet on Alaska probes as Senate race too close to callJust the NewsJust the NewsJust the News, Nov 4, 11:01 PM ET: Justice Department declines to give update on Alaska probes with Senate race too close to callNewsweekNewsweekNewsweek, Nov 5, 1:02 AM ET: Alaska Senate Margin Keeps Justice Department Lawsuit AliveFox NewsFox NewsFox News, Nov 5, 11:01 AM ET: 'Decoy Dan' and his 3,600 votes could flip Alaska Senate seat as razor-thin race still too close to call
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

  1. “Decoy Dan”2
  2. “Decoy”1

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✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “DOJ stays quiet on Alaska investigations as Senate race too close to call” → “DOJ quiet on Alaska probes as Senate race too close to call”
📰 Every outlet's headline 6left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺🤷 No TV captions or radio newscasts matched to it yet. It may still get there, or our matchers missed 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

AlaskaJustice DepartmentSenateRepublican Party

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Alaska Senate probe

  1. DOJ sends target letters to 20 Democrats in Alaska Senate probe

    Nov 3, 4 PM ET

  2. Alaska Senate race remains too close to call (this story)

    Nov 5, 4 AM ET

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