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Trump, Cotton tussle over daylight savings after cell phone number leak
President Trump repeatedly berated Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Saturday over his stance on a daylight savings bill after posting the Republican Congress member's cell phone number on social media. In a morning Truth Social post, the president encouraged his supporters to call the senator and urge hi
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Both outlets focus on Trump and Tom Cotton in the context of a push to make daylight saving time permanent, but NBC News foregrounds the apparent posting of Cotton’s cellphone number, while CBS News frames the story as Trump urging supporters to call the senator. CBS says the number appears to be the senator’s personal cellphone, which is the only extract to phrase it that way.
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