Cable TV News Analysis of 2024 Presidential Election Coverage

By Bailey Guy, Mary Grace Newman, Bailey Brantingham, and Ethan Schmidt

We predict that the right-leaning Fox News will produce more coverage of Trump, and the left-leaning CNN and MSNBC outlets will produce more for Harris. The inverse was actually true: Fox News produced more coverage of Harris, CNN had more mixed results, while MSNBC produced more coverage of Trump. This perhaps represents a desire to highlight the flaws of the opponents to the outlets’ preferred candidates.