Campaign 2020 Media Dashboard
In collaboration with the Internet Archive's Television News Archive and using GDELT's worldwide online news monitoring, the dashboard below tracks mentions of the 2020 US presidential candidates on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News national television news, the evening news broadcasts of ABC, CBS and NBC and worldwide online news coverage in 65 languages. The Republican field is represented by incumbent Donald Trump and the Democratic field is represented by the 20 candidates that participated in the Second Democratic Debate. Note that television results have a 24-hour rolling delay, while online coverage is updated to present. This dashboard is updated every 30 minutes.
The live dataset powering this dashboard is available for download in CSV format. Each of the graphs below can be downloaded in PNG or CSV format or embedded on your own site by clicking on the Export button at the top right of the graph. High-traffic sites should download the master CSV file every 30 minutes and use it to construct their own visualizations.
Permission is granted to use all graphs and data on this dashboard. When using the National TV and Network TV graphs and data, please cite as "Data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive processed by the GDELT Project." When using the "Online News" graphs and data, please cite as "Data from the GDELT Project."
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National Television (24/7)
Mentions of 2020 candidates on CNN, MSNBC and FOX News 24 hours a day 7 days a week using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive processed by the GDELT Project. Includes all candidate mentions in closed captioned news programming, though a small percentage of advertisements may also be counted if they are captioned. Due to the Television Archive's 24-hour rolling delay, results are updated to 24 hours ago. Click the blue info button at top right to see more details, including the specific queries used for each candidate.
All data for each of the candidates is retrieved using the GDELT TV API 2.0. The specific queries used are listed below with a link to the query in GDELT Summary. Queries without links exceed the maximum public query length of the TV API and are executed by the API internally.
- All Candidates: (trump OR williamson OR "tim ryan" OR klobuchar OR buttigieg OR bernie OR sanders OR warren OR "o'rourke" OR hickenlooper OR delaney OR bullock OR bennet OR gillibrand OR castro OR booker OR biden OR kamala harris OR yang OR gabbard OR inslee OR deblasio OR "de blasio")
- Bennet: bennet
- Biden: biden
- Booker: booker
- Bullock: bullock
- Buttigieg: buttigieg
- Castro: castro -anti -cuba -cuban
- de Blasio: (deblasio OR "de blasio")
- Delaney: delaney
- Democrats: (williamson OR "tim ryan" OR klobuchar OR buttigieg OR bernie OR sanders OR warren OR "o'rourke" OR hickenlooper OR delaney OR bullock OR bennet OR gillibrand OR castro OR booker OR biden OR kamala harris OR yang OR gabbard OR inslee OR deblasio OR "de blasio")
- Gabbard: gabbard
- Gillibrand: gillibrand
- Harris: kamala harris
- Hickenlooper: hickenlooper
- Inslee: inslee
- Klobuchar: klobuchar
- O'Rourke: "o'rourke"
- Republicans: trump
- Ryan: "tim ryan"
- Sanders: (bernie OR sanders) -sarah
- Trump: trump
- Warren: warren
- Williamson: williamson -zion -nba
- Yang: yang -kraft -spa -orchid -lee -cindy -miami
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Network Television (Evening News)
Mentions of 2020 candidates on ABC's World News Tonight With David Muir, CBS' Evening News, Evening News With Jeff Glor and Evening News With Norah O'Donnell and NBC's Nightly News With Lester Holt using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive processed by the GDELT Project. Monitoring is from San Francisco affiliates KGO, KPIX and KNTV, respectively. Counts may be slightly off on some days due to affiliates repeating the evening news the following morning on certain occassions. Includes all mentions in closed captioned news programming, though a small percentage of advertisements may also be counted if they are captioned. Due to the Television Archive's 24-hour rolling delay, results are updated to 24 hours ago. Click the blue info button at top right to see more details, including the specific queries used for each candidate.
- All Candidates:
- ABC: (trump OR williamson OR "tim ryan" OR klobuchar OR buttigieg OR bernie OR sanders OR warren OR "o'rourke" OR hickenlooper OR delaney OR bullock OR bennet OR gillibrand OR castro OR booker OR biden OR kamala harris OR yang OR gabbard OR inslee OR deblasio OR "de blasio") show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: (trump OR williamson OR "tim ryan" OR klobuchar OR buttigieg OR bernie OR sanders OR warren OR "o'rourke" OR hickenlooper OR delaney OR bullock OR bennet OR gillibrand OR castro OR booker OR biden OR kamala harris OR yang OR gabbard OR inslee OR deblasio OR "de blasio") (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: (trump OR williamson OR "tim ryan" OR klobuchar OR buttigieg OR bernie OR sanders OR warren OR "o'rourke" OR hickenlooper OR delaney OR bullock OR bennet OR gillibrand OR castro OR booker OR biden OR kamala harris OR yang OR gabbard OR inslee OR deblasio OR "de blasio") show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- Bennet:
- ABC: bennet show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: bennet (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: bennet show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- Biden:
- ABC: biden show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: biden (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: biden show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- Booker:
- ABC: booker show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: booker (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: booker show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- Bullock:
- ABC: bullock show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: bullock (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: bullock show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- Buttigieg:
- ABC: buttigieg show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: buttigieg (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: buttigieg show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- Castro:
- ABC: castro -anti -cuba -cuban show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: castro -anti -cuba -cuban (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: castro -anti -cuba -cuban show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- de Blasio:
- ABC: (deblasio OR "de blasio") show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: (deblasio OR "de blasio") (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: (deblasio OR "de blasio") show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- Delaney:
- ABC: delaney show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: delaney (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: delaney show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- Democrats:
- ABC: (williamson OR "tim ryan" OR klobuchar OR buttigieg OR bernie OR sanders OR warren OR "o'rourke" OR hickenlooper OR delaney OR bullock OR bennet OR gillibrand OR castro OR booker OR biden OR kamala harris OR yang OR gabbard OR inslee OR deblasio OR "de blasio") show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: (williamson OR "tim ryan" OR klobuchar OR buttigieg OR bernie OR sanders OR warren OR "o'rourke" OR hickenlooper OR delaney OR bullock OR bennet OR gillibrand OR castro OR booker OR biden OR kamala harris OR yang OR gabbard OR inslee OR deblasio OR "de blasio") (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: (williamson OR "tim ryan" OR klobuchar OR buttigieg OR bernie OR sanders OR warren OR "o'rourke" OR hickenlooper OR delaney OR bullock OR bennet OR gillibrand OR castro OR booker OR biden OR kamala harris OR yang OR gabbard OR inslee OR deblasio OR "de blasio") show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- Gabbard:
- ABC: gabbard show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: gabbard (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: gabbard show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- Gillibrand:
- ABC: gillibrand show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: gillibrand (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: gillibrand show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- Harris:
- ABC: kamala harris show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: kamala harris (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: kamala harris show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- Hickenlooper:
- ABC: hickenlooper show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: hickenlooper (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: hickenlooper show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- Inslee:
- ABC: inslee show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: inslee (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: inslee show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- Klobuchar:
- ABC: klobuchar show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: klobuchar (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: klobuchar show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- O'Rourke:
- ABC: "o'rourke" show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: "o'rourke" (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: "o'rourke" show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- Republicans:
- ABC: trump show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: trump (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: trump show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- Ryan:
- ABC: "tim ryan" show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: "tim ryan" (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: "tim ryan" show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- Sanders:
- ABC: (bernie OR sanders) -sarah show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: (bernie OR sanders) -sarah (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: (bernie OR sanders) -sarah show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- Trump:
- ABC: trump show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: trump (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: trump show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- Warren:
- ABC: warren show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: warren (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: warren show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- Williamson:
- ABC: williamson -zion -nba show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: williamson -zion -nba (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: williamson -zion -nba show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
- Yang:
- ABC: yang -kraft -spa -orchid -lee -cindy -miami show:"ABC World News Tonight With David Muir" station:KGO
- CBS: yang -kraft -spa -orchid -lee -cindy -miami (show:"CBS Evening News" OR show:"CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor" OR show:"CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell") station:KPIX
- NBC: yang -kraft -spa -orchid -lee -cindy -miami show:"NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt" station:KNTV
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Worldwide Online News
Mentions of 2020 candidates in worldwide online news coverage in the 65 languages monitored by the GDELT Project. Note that no system can monitor all global media and thus these results represent best-effort results. Also note that some candidate names may not properly translate from all languages in all cases, leading to some missed results. Click the blue info button at top right to see more, including the specific queries used for each candidate.
All data for each of the candidates is retrieved using the GDELT TV DOC 2.0 in Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic (MSA and many common dialects), Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian (Bokmal), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Vietnamese. The specific queries used are listed below with a link to the query in GDELT Summary. Queries without links exceed the maximum public query length of the DOC API and are executed by the API internally.
- All Candidates: ("Donald Trump" OR "President Trump" OR "Marianne Williamson" OR "Tim Ryan" OR "Amy Klobuchar" OR "Pete Buttigieg" OR "Bernie Sanders" OR "Elizabeth Warren" OR "Beto O'Rourke" OR "John Hickenlooper" OR "John Delaney" OR "Steve Bullock" OR "Michael Bennet" OR "Kirsten Gillibrand" OR "Julián Castro" OR "Julian Castro" OR "Cory Booker" OR "Joe Biden" OR "Kamala Harris" OR "Andrew Yang" OR "Tulsi Gabbard" OR "Jay Inslee" OR "Bill de Blasio")
- Bennet: "Michael Bennet"
- Biden: "Joe Biden"
- Booker: "Cory Booker"
- Bullock: "Steve Bullock"
- Buttigieg: "Pete Buttigieg"
- Castro: ("Julián Castro" OR "Julian Castro")
- de Blasio: "Bill de Blasio"
- Delaney: "John Delaney"
- Democrats: ("Marianne Williamson" OR "Tim Ryan" OR "Amy Klobuchar" OR "Pete Buttigieg" OR "Bernie Sanders" OR "Elizabeth Warren" OR "Beto O'Rourke" OR "John Hickenlooper" OR "John Delaney" OR "Steve Bullock" OR "Michael Bennet" OR "Kirsten Gillibrand" OR "Julián Castro" OR "Julian Castro" OR "Cory Booker" OR "Joe Biden" OR "Kamala Harris" OR "Andrew Yang" OR "Tulsi Gabbard" OR "Jay Inslee" OR "Bill de Blasio")
- Gabbard: "Tulsi Gabbard"
- Gillibrand: "Kirsten Gillibrand"
- Harris: "Kamala Harris"
- Hickenlooper: "John Hickenlooper"
- Inslee: "Jay Inslee"
- Klobuchar: "Amy Klobuchar"
- O'Rourke: "Beto O'Rourke"
- Republicans: ("Donald Trump" OR "President Trump")
- Ryan: "Tim Ryan"
- Sanders: "Bernie Sanders"
- Trump: ("Donald Trump" OR "President Trump")
- Warren: "Elizabeth Warren"
- Williamson: "Marianne Williamson"
- Yang: "Andrew Yang"
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National Television Chyrons (24/7)
Total seconds of airtime on CNN, MSNBC and FOX in which the onscreen chyron text mentioned a 2020 candidate, using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive's "Third Eye" OCR stream, reprocessed GDELT Project. Results are updated each morning with the previous 24 hours. Click the blue info button at top right to see more details, including the specific queries used for each candidate.
All data for each of the candidates is retrieved using the GDELT LOWERTHIRD API 2.0. The specific queries used are listed below with a link to the query in GDELT Summary. Queries without links exceed the maximum public query length of the LOWERTHIRD API and are executed by the API internally.
- All Candidates: (trump OR williamson OR "tim ryan" OR klobuchar OR buttigieg OR bernie OR sanders OR warren OR "o'rourke" OR hickenlooper OR delaney OR bullock OR bennet OR gillibrand OR castro OR booker OR biden OR kamala harris OR yang OR gabbard OR inslee OR deblasio OR "de blasio")
- Bennet: bennet
- Biden: biden
- Booker: booker
- Bullock: bullock
- Buttigieg: buttigieg
- Castro: castro -anti -cuba -cuban
- de Blasio: (deblasio OR "de blasio")
- Delaney: delaney
- Democrats: (williamson OR "tim ryan" OR klobuchar OR buttigieg OR bernie OR sanders OR warren OR "o'rourke" OR hickenlooper OR delaney OR bullock OR bennet OR gillibrand OR castro OR booker OR biden OR kamala harris OR yang OR gabbard OR inslee OR deblasio OR "de blasio")
- Gabbard: gabbard
- Gillibrand: gillibrand
- Harris: kamala harris
- Hickenlooper: hickenlooper
- Inslee: inslee
- Klobuchar: klobuchar
- O'Rourke: "o'rourke"
- Republicans: trump
- Ryan: "tim ryan"
- Sanders: (bernie OR sanders) -sarah
- Trump: trump
- Warren: warren
- Williamson: williamson -zion -nba
- Yang: yang -kraft -spa -orchid -lee -cindy -miami
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