The GDELT Project

2020 Democratic Race All But Disappears From The News

The 2020 Democratic race has all but disappeared from the news, replaced by the rapidly spreading Covid-19 pandemic. Mentions of the 2020 candidates over the past three months on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News can be seen below, using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive visualized through the Campaign 2020 Media Dashboard. March 12th represented the first vertical collapse of coverage, followed by March 19th, at which point the race all but disappeared and has never recovered.

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