GOP super PAC pauses spending in North Carolina Senate race, shifting money to Kansas

What the coverage shows

All five outlets focus on the Senate Leadership Fund pausing or pulling spending from the North Carolina race and, in four of them, shifting resources to Kansas. NBC News frames the move as part of a difficult landscape for Republicans in red-state races, while Politico, the Washington Post, and the New York Times emphasize declining GOP confidence or dimming prospects. The Guardian US is the only outlet to foreground the committee redirecting ad spending away from Michael Whatley’s campaign.

Written by Crossfiled from the 3 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.