Rep. Lauren Boebert trails Democrat in Colorado House race

🗞️ Story file #1472

Rep. Lauren Boebert trails Democrat in Colorado House race

Nov 5, 1 PM ET to Nov 6, 7 AM ET

7outlets carried it
🫏2 · 3 · 2🐘left · center · right
18 hourson the front pages
7front pages at once, at its peak
26 sof TV captions
31people retold it online
1 of 2parts of a saga

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👣 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.

Nov 5, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: Chicago Tribune
Nov 5, 5 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages
Nov 5, 9 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Nov 6, 4 AM ETretold online by 31 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 5, 1 PM to Nov 6, 7 AM ET (peak 7), 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

“MAGA warrior”1

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

📰 Every outlet's headline 7left to right by AllSides rating

Alternet🕒 Nov 5, 5 PM ET Lauren Boebert loses her Colorado House seat
Yahoo News🕒 Nov 4, 2 PM ET Live Colorado House results: Lauren Boebert vs. Eileen Laubacher
Chicago Tribune🕒 Nov 5, 1 PM ET Rep. Lauren Boebert trails Democratic challenger in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District
News Nation🕒 Nov 4, 3 PM ET Live results: Rep. Lauren Boebert faces Eileen Laubacher in Colorado’s 4th District
Scripps News🕒 Nov 4, 11 AM ET Lauren Boebert trails Democratic challenger in tight Colorado House race
Just the News🕒 Nov 5, 9 AM ET 'MAGA warrior' Lauren Boebert's House reelection bid in Colorado still too close to call
The Washington Times🕒 Nov 5, 10 AM ET Rep. Lauren Boebert trails Democrat Eileen Laubacher in Colorado's most Republican district

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

leans left

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

🫏 CNN 26 s

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.

what people online made of it

🧩 How it's being told

The stories under this news, from our motif index, and who told each: the shows we follow by their lean, people online, fact-checkers. A story people tell, not a claim that it's true; claims are matched to this story by our tools, so a link can be wrong.

🧩 Political realignment 🧶 online
“Democrats flipping historically conservative seats in Colorado is a world-changing event.”

🧶 Retold online

Eileen Laubacher has defeated Lauren Boebert in Colorado's 4th District. Nov 6: told by 19 people
🦋 Widely seen on Bluesky

🦋 a post on Bluesky · 5 likes, 0 reposts
Democrats flipping historically conservative seats in Colorado is a world-changing event. Nov 6: told by 12 people

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

🗣️ Names in it

Lauren BoebertEileen LaubacherColoradoDemocratic PartyRepublican Party

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Colorado House race investigation

Rep. Lauren Boebert trails Democrat in Colorado House race (this story)
Nov 5, 1 PM ET
Lauren boebert's campaign investigates unusual voting patterns
Nov 6, 10 AM ET