Alaska Senate candidate sustains minor injuries in car crash

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Alaska Senate candidate sustains minor injuries in car crash

Oct 25, 2 PM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

25outlets carried it
🫏8 · 4 · 12🐘left · center · right
2.7 dayson the front pages
25front pages at once, at its peak
2 minof TV captions
5radio newscasts
10people retold it online

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Oct 25, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: CBS News
Oct 25, 4 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 26, 8 AM ETretold online by 10 people
Oct 26, 11 AM ETpeak: on 25 front pages
Oct 26, 11 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 25, 2 PM to Oct 28, 6 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.

📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the AP headline nearly word for word (Los Angeles Times)

📌 linked by aggregators: Political Wire

💬 quoted: “minor injuries”

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 family suffer

✏️ 11 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Bloomberg (2 wordings): “Car Crash With Alaska Democrat Peltola Delays Campaign Rallies” → “Alaska Senate Hopeful Peltola Delays Rallies After Car Crash”
Fox News (2 wordings): “Alaska Dem Senate candidate suffers minor injuries in car crash, forcing her to skip campaign events” → “Mary Peltola sidelined after car crash scrambles final-week Senate campaign plans”
HuffPost (2 wordings): “DEM PELTOLA RESCHEDULES EVENTS AFTER CAR CRASH” → “Mary Peltola Reschedules Campaign Events In Alaska After Car Accident”
Just the News (2 wordings): “Alaska Democratic Senate candidate Peltola reschedules campaign events after car crash” → “Car crash takes Alaska Democrat Senate nominee Peltola temporarily off campaign trail”
One America News Network (2 wordings): “Alaska: Dem. Senate candidate ‘sustained minor injuries’ in car crash, reschedules campaign events” → “Alaska: Dem Senate candidate ‘sustained minor injuries’ in car crash, reschedules campaign events”
Red State (3 wordings): “Mary Peltola Injured in Car Accident, Forced to Cancel Campaign Events Bob Hoge” → “2026 Elections Mary Peltola Injured in Car Accident, Forced to Cancel Campaign Events Bob Hoge”
The Daily Wire (2 wordings): “Democrat Hurt In Car Crash, Postpones Campaign Events A Week Before Midterms” → “Democrat Hurt In Car Crash, Postpones Campaign Events Week Before Midterms”
The Washington Post (2 wordings): “Democrat in Alaska’s toss-up Senate race reschedules events after car crash” → “Democrat in Alaska’s toss-up Senate race reschedules events after car crash - The Washington Post”
Townhall (3 wordings): “Democrat Mary Peltola Pauses Campaign After Suffering Minor Injuries in Car Crash Joe Chalfant” → “Senate Democrat Mary Peltola Pauses Campaign After Suffering Minor Injuries in Car Crash Joe Chalfant”
Washington Examiner (4 wordings): “Mary Peltola injured in car crash, postponing Alaska Senate campaign stops” → “Peltola injured in car crash, postponing campaign stops”
Yahoo News (3 wordings): “Mary Peltola delays Senate campaign events after suffering minor injuries in car crash” → “Mary Peltola delays campaign events after sustaining ‘minor injuries’ in car crash”

Every outlet's first headline (25), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost DEM PELTOLA RESCHEDULES EVENTS AFTER CAR CRASH Oct 25, 4 PM ET
The Daily Beast Senate Hopeful’s Campaign Derailed by Car Crash Oct 25, 6 PM ET
AP Alaska Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola and her family suffer minor injuries in car crash Oct 25, 3 PM ET
CBS News Alaska Senate candidate sustains "minor injuries" in car accident Oct 25, 2 PM ET
Los Angeles Times Alaska Senate candidate Mary Peltola and her family suffer minor injuries in car crash Oct 25, 6 PM ET
Politico Peltola postpones campaign stops after Saturday car crash Oct 25, 2 PM ET
The Washington Post Democrat in Alaska’s toss-up Senate race reschedules events after car crash Oct 25, 4 PM ET
Yahoo News Mary Peltola delays Senate campaign events after suffering minor injuries in car crash Oct 26, 1 AM ET
BBC Alaska's Democratic Senate candidate pauses midterms campaigning after car crash Oct 26, 10 AM ET
Bloomberg Car Crash With Alaska Democrat Peltola Delays Campaign Rallies Oct 25, 2 PM ET
Newsweek Mary Peltola Campaign Speaks Out After Car Crash Disrupts Alaska Tour Oct 25, 4 PM ET
Straight Arrow News Mary Peltola suffers ‘minor injuries’ after car crash, campaign says Oct 25, 2 PM ET
Just the News Alaska Democratic Senate candidate Peltola reschedules campaign events after car crash Oct 26, 9 AM ET
The Epoch Times Alaska Senate Candidate Suffers Injuries in Car Crash Oct 26, 10 AM ET
Washington Examiner Mary Peltola injured in car crash, postponing Alaska Senate campaign stops Oct 25, 2 PM ET
Fox News Alaska Dem Senate candidate suffers minor injuries in car crash, forcing her to skip campaign events Oct 26, 9 AM ET
IJR Mary Peltola Reschedules Campaign Stops After Alaska Crash Oct 26, 7 AM ET
New York Post Alaska Dem Mary Peltola in car crash during final sprint for Senate Oct 25, 3 PM ET
Newsmax Alaska Senate Candidate Peltola Injured in Car Crash Oct 25, 4 PM ET
OAN Alaska: Dem. Senate candidate ‘sustained minor injuries’ in car crash, reschedules campaign events Oct 26, 11 AM ET
Red State Mary Peltola Injured in Car Accident, Forced to Cancel Campaign Events Bob Hoge Oct 25, 8 PM ET
The Daily Wire Democrat Hurt In Car Crash, Postpones Campaign Events A Week Before Midterms Oct 25, 3 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit JUST IN: Democrat Alaska Senate Candidate Mary Peltola Injured in Car Crash Oct 25, 5 PM ET
Townhall Democrat Mary Peltola Pauses Campaign After Suffering Minor Injuries in Car Crash Joe Chalfant Oct 25, 6 PM ET
The Washington Sun Alaska’s Peltola and Her Family Sustain ‘Minor Injuries’ in a Car Crash Oct 25, 2 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

Fox News60 s

MSNOW42 s

CNN8 s

TWO DAN SULLIVANS LISTED ON ALASKA SENATE BALLOT Fox News, 48 s
JACKSON & COLLINS LOCKED IN TIGHT U.S. SENATE RACE MSNOW, 42 s
POLLS SHOW TEXAS SENATE SHOWDOWN IN DEAD HEAT Fox News, 12 s
ALL OVER THE MAP FIVE-STATE BLITZ CNN, 8 s

📻 On the radio

NPR News Now, Oct 26, 11:09 AM ET: story 3 of 7
NPR News Now, Oct 26, 5:10 AM ET: story 2 of 7
NPR News Now, Oct 26, 1:09 AM ET: story 2 of 7
NPR News Now, Oct 25, 6:10 PM ET: story 2 of 7
NPR News Now, Oct 25, 4:09 PM ET: story 2 of 6

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🧩 Convenient timing 🧶 online
“Mary Peltola and her family were injured in a car accident, causing her to delay her campaign tour.”

🧶 Retold online

Mary Peltola and her family were injured in a car accident, causing her to delay her campaign tour. Oct 26: told by 10 people
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🦋 a post on Bluesky · 10 likes, 2 reposts

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🗣️ names in it: Mary Peltola Alaska Senate Alaska Senate Alaska Senate candidate Alaska Democratic Party

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