In the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections, news of a migrant caravan moving through Mexico toward the United States dominated the airwaves. As President Trump regularly thundered about the threat, Fox News, CNN and MSNBC dedicated extensive resources to the story.
After the elections, however, interest in the caravan fell sharply at all three networks, according to data provided to TheWrap by the video monitoring service Grabien. While Fox News had the most caravan coverage the week before Election Day, CNN and MSNBC shared President Trump’s fixation on the migrants moving very slowly north.
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