After the doorstop
The clip is everywhere by lunch. The score shows whether X turned on the line, and which phrases people actually repeated.
Solution
Read the feeling when the coverage moves
A spike in mentions tells you the story is moving. It does not tell you how people feel about it. TrendM8 scores news and social, especially X, so a political brief shows the mood behind the noise.
Sentiment is the brief, once the media moves
Politics travels across outlets and platforms at once. A line from a press conference lands in the news, then on X, then in replies that sound nothing like the original clip. Counting those mentions shows reach. Scoring them shows whether the room is with you, against you, or just loud. Each mention gets a read, and the project rolls that into a 0 to 100 score, with the quotes underneath.
News and X in the same brief
The argument often starts on X and lands in the news an hour later, or the other way around. Both sit in one project, so a viral post and a news story are not two different truths. X carries a lot of the political conversation. It stays in the same feed as the coverage, with the feeling on each item.
The score is the feeling, not the volume
One angry thread can look like the whole public. Weighting keeps a single loud post from deciding the week, and still shows when that noise became the story. Positive, neutral, and negative sit on each item. Trust, fear, anger, and the rest are there when one number would hide a split reaction.
When the cycle turns
The policy, not the person
The name and the bill have separate monitors. A fight about the policy does not get filed as a fight about the person.
The other side's night
Their project stays separate. Their spike never lands in your numbers, so the room can see whose night it was.
Open the brief before the cycle turns
Name the person, the policy, and the attack line. Include X. Run it when the coverage moves, and forward the score with the quotes that explain it.