Trends in media coverage continue to baffle even the most seasoned PR professionals and other observers of the media. Machine learning, however, is starting to give us into a glimpse into how ideas actually spread. To understand what may happen in a given week of election coverage, we analyzed more than 6,000 election-related articles that ran in top news sources during the beginning of August 2019. This report provides a glimpse at:

• How certain politicians are dominating the media cycle
• Patterns in the use of inflammatory language in association with various candidates