Claudia Sheinbaum's rise to Mexico's presidency and her clashes with Trump
Overview · reviewed October 28, 2026
Claudia Sheinbaum, a former Mexico City mayor, won Mexico's June 2024 presidential election and took office that October as the first woman to lead the country in its more than 200 years of independence.[1][2]As president she has pushed back against President Donald Trump, mocking his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and rejecting his offers to send US troops to fight drug cartels.[3][4][5]
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As president she has pushed back against President Donald Trump, mocking his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and rejecting his offers to send US troops to fight drug cartels.[3][4][5]
Coverage over time
Share of tracked outlets · monthly average of weekly shares (UTC)
8%0%
Sep 2023202420252026this month
LeftCenterRight
Each bar is the share of the outlets on our Left / Center / Right rating scale that we tracked publishing that week which carried reporting on this story, split by the outlets' ratings. Over more than two years each bar is a month: the average of that month's weekly shares, so the shape stays readable. The weekly table below keeps every week. We track more outlets now than in the archive, so a share keeps earlier and later weeks comparable. An outlet counts once a week however much it published, and outlets in one ownership or syndication group count as one on each side they appear on. A rating describes the outlet, not the report. A gap means no such reports were collected that week, not that nothing was reported anywhere. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC, so a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. 6 more outlets off the scale (not rated, or outside the left-right graphs) also reported; they are not in this chart. See them.
Weekly counts, outlets and reports (9 weeks with coverage)
Outlets on the rating scale that carried this story each week, of the outlets tracked that week, newest first
Week of (UTC)
Left
Center
Right
Of tracked
Share
Receipts
Nov 17, 2025
1
3
3
7 of 189
4%
Nov 3, 2025
5
9
2
16 of 209
8%
May 5, 2025
0
7
4
11 of 201
5%
Apr 28, 2025
6
4
7
17 of 204
8%
Jan 6, 2025
5
10
5
20 of 221
9%
Sep 30, 2024
11
22
6
39 of 222
18%
Jun 3, 2024
25
34
10
69 of 228
30%
Mar 4, 2024
2
3
1
6 of 254
2%
Sep 4, 2023
10
15
5
30 of 253
12%
Latest coverage
The newest reporting in this story's record.
Nov 17, 2025 · first reported · Headline from The Columbian
Mexico's ruling party named Sheinbaum its candidate in September 2023,[6] and she won in June 2024, offering an olive branch to the more than one-third of Mexicans who voted against her.[1] A lifelong leftist, she campaigned on continuity with her predecessor.[2] In January 2025 she responded sarcastically to Trump's plan to rename the Gulf of Mexico,[3] and that year she twice rejected US military action against cartels, saying Mexico would not accept foreign intervention.[4][5] In November she pressed charges against a man who harassed her, calling it "an assault on all women."[7]
