Hello and welcome to Week 3 of the Slatest’s 2016 Twitter Power Rankings, where every Friday we round-up each of the White House hopeful’s most successful tweets from the past week. Why are we doing this? For starters, it will provide a helpful—if incomplete—snapshot of the topics that candidates are talking about online, and which of those are resonating with voters on social media. And, as the campaign continues to unfold online and off, it will also hopefully allow us to draw some conclusions about which candidates are winning the campaign Twitter wars and why.
The ground rules again:
- We’re defining a candidate’s most successful tweet as the one that receives the most retweets—though in the event two or more tweets are neck-and-neck, the one with significantly more favorites will get the edge.
- Tweets that include a direct request for a retweet are ineligible because that’s cheating. RT if you agree!
- If a candidate has more than one account, we’ll use the one tied to his or her official presidential campaign. (Or, in the case of blue checkmark-less Jim Gilmore, what we think is his official account.)
- Only tweets from the past seven days are eligible. Since we’ll try to publish the weekly rankings every Friday, that means any tweet sent between the past Saturday and around 10 a.m. the morning we go live. (RTs amassed after the morning cutoff don’t count in the rankings.)
You’ll find this week’s takeaways at the bottom, but without any further ado, here’s the Week 3 ranking:
1.) Donald Trump (Last week: 1)
A letter to @CNN President Jeff Zucker- pic.twitter.com/HKUYv9tFRm
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 9, 2015
2.) Bernie Sanders (3)
Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement AdvertisementWe need to pass pay equity for women workers. Equal pay for equal work.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) September 5, 2015
3.) Hillary Clinton (2)
Dance break. pic.twitter.com/aAUPlwBWZH
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 10, 2015
4.) Ted Cruz (9)
Praise God Kim has been released! https://t.co/Ev47wkemvD #ImWithKim pic.twitter.com/pHRqajimE3
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 8, 2015
5.) Ben Carson (5)
Just passed 2.7M supporters on Facebook, 550K followers on Twitter! We the People are growing this movement every day #BC2DC16
— Ben & Candy Carson (@RealBenCarson) September 5, 2015
6.) Bobby Jindal (12)
.@realdonaldtrump We have met. You wrote a check. A fool & his money are soon parted. A fool & his dad’s money are parted sooner.
— Gov. Bobby Jindal (@BobbyJindal) September 10, 2015
7.) Mike Huckabee (6)
I was honored to meet w/ #KimDavis. A woman of such strong faith and conviction. #ImWithKim #ReligiousLiberty pic.twitter.com/RhcaENaA6i
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) September 8, 2015
8.) Rand Paul (4)
Advertisement AdvertisementToday, we say a prayer for those who lost their lives and their family members. You will never be forgotten. pic.twitter.com/VjFeQPj7KS
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) September 11, 2015
9.) Carly Fiorina (7)
We have a professional political class that is unwilling or unable to challenge the status quo. #Carly2016https://t.co/tyUvoWdRdg
— Carly Fiorina (@CarlyFiorina) September 7, 2015
10.) George Pataki (16)
It's tragic that 14 yrs later we are as so divided & our leaders in Washington have forgotten the lessons of #9/11. http://t.co/E3IgjxpXcm
— George E. Pataki (@GovernorPataki) September 11, 2015
11.) Jeb Bush (8)
Trumps demeaning remarks are small and inappropriate for anyone, much less a presidential candidate. Carly & country deserve better. Enough
— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) September 10, 2015
12.) Scott Walker (11)
.@HillaryClinton, "I'm sorry about that" isn't an acceptable response for putting your convenience above the safety of the American people.
— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) September 8, 2015
13.) Marco Rubio (10)
Iran struck two secret deals with the IAEA. Here’s why this is a problem: https://t.co/2ipQfLuKwY #IranDeal pic.twitter.com/YZZ6pLZlEa
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) September 8, 2015
14.) Rick Perry (13)
.@BarackObama & @HillaryClinton's judgement has threatened nat'l security & our ally Israel. We must #StopIranDeal! pic.twitter.com/vXfP2I30hG
— Rick Perry (@GovernorPerry) September 9, 2015
15.) Rick Santorum (14)
Pres has not complied w Corker-Cardin. Congress should pass resolution so stating. Congress should not vote on C-C. http://t.co/xp4Sj5Mirj
— Rick Santorum (@RickSantorum) September 7, 2015
16.) John Kasich (15)
A new poll is out today that has Gov @JohnKasich at #2 in New Hampshire! Join the team today! http://t.co/dy8KnZ122T pic.twitter.com/fanNq4Bz7D
— John Kasich (@JohnKasich) September 6, 2015
17.) Martin O’Malley (17)
Join me in calling for the U.S. government to do more to address this humanitarian crisis. http://t.co/ThkCT5t4Sx pic.twitter.com/tCdgcGj84s
— Martin O'Malley (@MartinOMalley) September 6, 2015
18.) Lindsey Graham (20)
Advertisement Advertisement AdvertisementRemembering brave first responders and 3000 innocent Americans who lost their lives 14 years ago. #NeverForget911 pic.twitter.com/tdyOj374xP
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) September 11, 2015
19.) Jim Webb (18)
#LaborDay: We need to create a tax structure that incentivizes corporations to invest in our nation’s economy.
— Jim Webb (@JimWebbUSA) September 8, 2015
20.) Chris Christie (19)
When Mayor @BilldeBlasio can give those kinds of statistics, then he can come and talk to us about law enforcement.https://t.co/5rcY0kUcT2
— Chris Christie (@ChrisChristie) September 8, 2015
21.) Lincoln Chafee (21)
Iraq War started chain of events leading to refugee crisis. Will Cheney neocons apologize for their tragic mistake? #GetGrounded#chafee2016
— Lincoln Chafee (@LincolnChafee) September 5, 2015
22.) Jim Gilmore (22)
Today's Rally - Thanks @cspan for being there - http://t.co/JdUixLjwSw
— Jim Gilmore (@gov_gilmore) September 9, 2015
Winner:Trump. Again.
AdvertisementThe Donald won this week by tweeting a letter he sent to CNN asking the network to donate all of its profits from next week’s debate to various TBD veterans groups of Trump’s choosing. But while that letter was classic Trump—“this tremendous increase in viewer interest and advertising is due 100% to ‘Donald J. Trump’”—so too were the two dozenother tweets the GOP front-runner sent over the past seven days that also had enough retweets to earn the top spot in this week’s rankings, be it his dismissive retorts to Bobby Jindal, his mocking of Jeb Bush’s donor base, or the hyping of his own poll numbers.
Anything else? Fighting over Kim Davis.
Advertisement AdvertisementThe Kentucky county clerk and her anti-gay marriage crusade didn’t dominate this week’s rankings like they did the previous ones, but Davis still made the occasional cameo. Mike Huckabee made sure to be standing front and center when Davis was released from jail on Tuesday—and did everything he could to keep Ted Cruz out of the frame—but ultimately it was the rally-crashing Cruz who got the most mileage out of his “religious liberty” photo-op.
Last thing: Can a former Virginia governor get a RT!
Jim Gilmore tweeted a total of 10 times between this past Saturday and this morning’s cutoff. His reward for his effort: a single, solitary retweet. (He’s since received a second but, again, and rules are rules.) Of course, that wasn’t the worst news the former governor’s campaign received this week. On Thursday, Gilmore learned that he failed to crack the 1-percent polling threshold needed to make it on stage next week for either of CNN’s two GOP debates. Maybe Gilmore can use the time he would have spent preparing for the debate to craft the perfect 140-character Trump insult. Either that or, you know, hold an actual campaign event.
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