These four Democrats dominate the 2020 media primary
Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders — the front-runners in most presidential primary polls — have generated a torrent of news coverage since the beginning of the year.From Jan. 1 to April 30, four candidates — Sanders, Biden, Harris and Warren — accounted for more than half the primary field’s traditional news media mentions, according to a data analysis conducted for POLITICO by. And Sanders and Harris together accounted for nearly half of the primary field’s social media footprint.
Beto O’Rourke and Pete Buttigieg, despite their splashy reputations, do not appear to have benefited from an inordinate amount of press. Neither candidate accounted for more than 5 percent of the field’s news coverage during the first four months of the year, according to Meltwater’s analysis. Meltwater’s analysis of traditional news mentions counts a name appearing in a story as a mention, and when stories are syndicated across multiple websites, a candidate is counted as being mentioned multiple times.
They were followed in social media share by Biden, Warren, Buttigieg, O’Rourke and Booker. No other candidate received more than 5 percent of the field’s social media share.
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