'Not presidential': Andrews responds to Trump referring to her by anti-trans slur
Andrews responded to Trump's criticism with a campaign message about lowering costs and working together.
SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYCredibility rates https://www.wbtv.com, which republished this story. The other scores rate the article itself.
WBTV is an established local news outlet, though this page appears to reproduce reporting credited to WIS. The article identifies its author and includes direct quotes, but offers limited sourcing and context.
- Source type — Established local news publisher.
- Editorial standards — The outlet is a local newsroom, but the article provides little context beyond the campaign statements.
- Author attribution — A named author is listed in the article metadata.
- Transparency — The article body identifies WIS and carries a WIS copyright notice, indicating another outlet's work.
The report gives the candidates' campaign context and quotes Andrews directly, but summarizes Trump's post rather than quoting it and provides no response from Graham or additional independent context.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The article reports both Trump's attack and Andrews's response, but gives Andrews's remarks in greater detail and includes no response from Graham or fuller account of Trump's post.
- Counterarguments presented — Andrews responds to the post, but there is no response from Graham or further explanation from Trump.
- Source diversity — The account relies mainly on the post and Andrews's statement and event remarks.
- Loaded language — The report characterizes Trump's language as derogatory and attributes the phrase “not presidential” to Andrews.
The article reports Trump's post and Andrews's response in straightforward language, without adopting either candidate's position as its own.
- Language tone — Mostly matter-of-fact, with the criticism and response attributed to the people involved.
- Source selection — The report includes Andrews's response and describes Trump's post, but does not quote Trump directly.
- Framing — The story is framed around Andrews's response to Trump's post.
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Donald Trump endorsed Darline Graham while criticizing Senate candidate Annie Andrews. Andrews responded at a campaign event, saying name-calling would not lower prices or get the job done.
The article reports that Trump endorsed Graham and criticized Andrews in a Truth Social post. Andrews responded in a statement and at a campaign event in Columbia, saying she was running to help patients and families and that lowering costs would require people to work together.
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This story reports what happened without casting Andrews in a good or bad light, so readers don’t rate it and it doesn’t count toward Andrews’s record.
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12 OUTLETSOutlets agree that Donald Trump used an anti-trans slur about South Carolina Senate candidate Annie Andrews in a post endorsing Darline Graham. Andrews responded by emphasizing her campaign priorities, and former governor David Beasley condemned Trump's remarks. Left-leaning outlets emphasize Beasley's condemnation and characterize Trump's post as an anti-trans attack. Center outlets more often pair reports of the post with Andrews's response on affordability and other campaign priorities, while also reporting criticism of the language.
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