Trump warns of potential national crisis if Democrats win midterms

🗞️ Story file #732

Trump warns of potential national crisis if Democrats win midterms

Oct 20, 8 PM ET to Oct 21, 12 PM ET

3outlets carried it
🫏1 · 0 · 2🐘left · center · right
16 hourson the front pages
6front pages at once, at its peak
3 minof TV captions
1 of 3parts of a saga

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Oct 20, 8 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
Oct 21, 8 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 20, 8 PM to Oct 21, 12 PM ET (peak 3), by the outlets' lean: left · 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. 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: Drudge Report

💬 quoted: “burn” “Muslim city”

✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)