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Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped while repairing campaign signs

Oct 7, 6 PM ET to Oct 11, 8 AM ET · 2 outlets not rated for lean

28outlets carried it
🫏13 · 5 · 8🐘left · center · right
3.6 dayson the front pages
25front pages at once, at its peak
29 minof TV captions
1radio newscast
23people retold it online

👣 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.

Oct 7, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
Oct 7, 8 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 8, 11 PM ETpeak: on 25 front pages
Oct 10, 12 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 12, 9 AM ETretold online by 23 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 7, 6 PM to Oct 11, 8 AM ET (peak 25), 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. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Drudge Report Political Wire

💬 quoted: “crime of opportunity,” “hypocrite” “ultra-red” “I just wanted to forget it”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 house candidate

✏️ 8 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (2 wordings): “Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped trying to repair campaign sign” → “Arizona candidate said she felt like a 'hypocrite' for not reporting rape”
CBS News (2 wordings): “Arizona congressional candidate reports rape while repairing campaign signs” → “House candidate who reported rape on campaign trail details why she came forward”
HuffPost (2 wordings): “Arizona Congressional Candidate Reports She Was Raped While Fixing Campaign Signs” → “Arizona Congressional Candidate Reports She Was Raped While Fixing Campaign Sign”
Los Angeles Times (2 wordings): “Arizona congressional candidate says she was sexually assaulted when repairing campaign signs” → “Arizona congressional candidate says two men raped her while she was out repairing campaign signs”
NBC News (2 wordings): “Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped and thinks it may have been a politically motivated attack” → “Arizona candidate says she was raped and thinks it may have been politically motivated”
New York Post (2 wordings): “Congressional candidate alleges she was raped while fixing campaign sign: ‘I just wanted to forget it’” → “Congressional candidate alleges she was raped while fixing campaign sign as heinous details emerge”
The Daily Wire (2 wordings): “Democratic Congressional Candidate Says She Was Raped While Repairing Campaign Sign” → “Democrat Congressional Candidate Says She Was Raped While Repairing Campaign Sign”
The Independent (2 wordings): “Political candidate in Arizona reports she was raped while out mending campaign signs” → “Congressional candidate who says she was raped while fixing campaign signs believes attack was ‘crime of opportunity,’ not political”

Every outlet's first headline (28), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost Arizona Congressional Candidate Reports She Was Raped While Fixing Campaign Signs Oct 7, 6 PM ET
Raw Story Candidate raped in 'ultra-red' MAGA district after repairing campaign sign: report Oct 7, 5 PM ET
Slate A House Candidate Says She Was Raped While Campaigning. It’s a Horrific Account—and an Urgent One. Oct 9, 3 PM ET
The Guardian Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped while trying to repair campaign sign Oct 7, 7 PM ET
The New Republic Democratic Candidate Reports Being Raped Near Her Campaign Sign Oct 7, 2 PM ET
ABC News Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped trying to repair campaign sign Oct 7, 9 PM ET
CBS News Arizona congressional candidate reports rape while repairing campaign signs Oct 8, 6 PM ET
Los Angeles Times Arizona congressional candidate says she was sexually assaulted when repairing campaign signs Oct 8, 4 PM ET
Mediaite Democratic Congressional Candidate Shares Harrowing Account of Being Raped While Fixing Campaign Signs Oct 7, 5 PM ET
NBC News Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped and thinks it may have been a politically motivated attack Oct 8, 4 PM ET
New York Times Arizona Congressional Candidate Says She Was Raped While Fixing Sign Oct 8, 1 AM ET
The Independent Political candidate in Arizona reports she was raped while out mending campaign signs Oct 7, 5 PM ET
Yahoo News Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped while trying to fix campaign sign Oct 8, 11 AM ET
BBC Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped while repairing campaign sign Oct 8, 11 AM ET
Newsweek Democratic Congressional Candidate Says She Was Raped While Campaigning Oct 7, 4 PM ET
Scripps News Crime Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped while fixing campaign signs Scripps News Group Oct 8, 1 PM ET
The Hill Congressional candidate says she was raped while repairing campaign signs Oct 8, 6 PM ET
WSJ Arizona Congressional Candidate Says She Was Raped While Fixing Campaign Signs Oct 8, 2 PM ET
Just the News Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped in August while fixing a campaign sign Oct 8, 11 PM ET
Washington Examiner Democratic House candidate says she was raped while repairing campaign signs Oct 7, 6 PM ET
IJR Arizona Candidate Reports Rape While Repairing Sign Oct 8, 8 AM ET
New York Post Congressional candidate alleges she was raped while fixing campaign sign: ‘I just wanted to forget it’ Oct 8, 8 AM ET
Newsmax Arizona Congressional Candidate Reports Sex Assault Oct 8, 7 PM ET
The Daily Caller Congressional Candidate Says She Was Raped While Repairing Her Campaign Signs Oct 7, 6 PM ET
The Daily Wire Democratic Congressional Candidate Says She Was Raped While Repairing Campaign Sign Oct 7, 8 PM ET
The Western Journal Dem Congressional Candidate Claims She Was Raped While Repairing Campaign Signs and Hid from Her Husband for Days Oct 9, 9 AM ET
The 19th Arizona House candidate said she was raped while fixing campaign signs Oct 8, 4 PM ET
The Washington Sun Arizona Congressional Candidate Says She Was Raped While Repairing Campaign Signs Oct 7, 7 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN26 min

MSNOW2 min

BBC News30 s

Fox News14 s

ARIZONA CANDIDATE WHO SAYS SHE WAS RAPED SPEAKS OUT CNN, 7 min
ANNIE ANDREWS CALLS OUT DARLINE GRAHAM FOR “LYING” IN NEW AD CNN, 4 min
AZ CANDIDATE SAYS SHE WAS RAPED WHILE OUT POSTING CAMPAIGN SIGNS CNN, 3 min
AZ Candidate Says she Was Raped While Out Posting Campaign Signs CNN, 2 min
AZ CANDIDATE SAYS SHE WAS RAPED WHILE OUT POSTING CAMPAIGN SIGNS. Bernadette Greene-Placentia | Alleges She Was Raped While Putting Up Campaign Signs CNN, 2 min
GOP CANDIDATE HAUNTED BY STRING OF MSNOW, 2 min
ATTORNEY: "VERY CONCERNED" FOR JANE DOE AND HER FAMILY'S SAFETY CNN, 82 s
ATTORNEY: FALSE SHOOTING REPORT ENDANGERED JANE DOE'S FAMILY CNN, 78 s

📻 On the radio

NPR News Now, Oct 10, 12:09 AM ET: story 3 of 3

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

Medieval-style physical mutilation is a justified or necessary punishment for rapists. Oct 12: told by 23 people (same issue)
🦋 Widely seen on Bluesky

🦋 a post on Bluesky · 5 likes, 1 reposts

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

🗣️ names in it: Arizona Democratic Party MAGA Congressional Candidate Campaign Signs

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.

Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped while repairing campaign signs

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