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🗞️ Story file #453

Senator Jon Ossoff says he will not run for president

Oct 14, 8 AM ET to Oct 14, 7 PM ET

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Oct 14, 8 AM ETfirst on a front page: Bloomberg
  2. Oct 14, 9 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
  3. Oct 14, 6 PM ETpeak: on 10 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 14, 8 AM to Oct 14, 7 PM ET (peak 10), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 146 AM12 PM6 PMPoliticoPoliticoPolitico, Oct 13, 10:02 PM ET: Sen. Jon Ossoff: ‘I’m not running for president’CBS NewsCBS NewsCBS News, Oct 13, 10:02 PM ET: Ossoff says "zero interest in running for president" in Georgia debateUSA TodayUSA TodayUSA Today, Oct 13, 11:02 PM ET: Georgia Senate debate takeaways: Ossoff says he isn't eyeing 2028NewsweekNewsweekNewsweek, Oct 13, 11:02 PM ET: Ossoff Says ‘Zero Interest’ in Presidential Run: Georgia Debate TakeawaysYahoo NewsYahoo NewsYahoo News, Oct 14, 1:02 AM ET: Jon Ossoff shuts down 2028 presidential speculation in heated Georgia Senate debateYahoo News, Oct 14, 2:02 AM ET: In heated Georgia Senate debate, Jon Ossoff says he won’t run for president in 2028AxiosAxiosAxios, Oct 14, 4:02 AM ET: Ossoff rejects 2028 buzz amid bruising night of Senate debatesBloombergBloombergBloomberg, Oct 14, 8:02 AM ET: Ossoff Pledges He Won’t Run for President in Georgia DebateBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Oct 14, 9:02 AM ET: Ossoff Says He Has ‘Zero Interest in Running for President’ in GA DebateNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 14, 9:02 AM ET: Ossoff: 'Zero Interest' in Running for President in 2028Newsmax, Oct 14, 10:02 AM ET: Ossoff: 'Zero Interest' in Running for PresidentMSNBCMSNBCMSNBC, Oct 14, 6:02 PM ET: Sen. Jon Ossoff again says he will not run for president in 2028📺 TVCNN, 9:06 AM ET: COLLINS ATTACKS OSSOFF ON DONOR ASSOCIATED WITH EPSTEINCNN, 9:06 AM ET: COLLINS ATTACKS OSSOFF ON DONOR ASSOCIATED WITH EPSTEINCNN, 9:06 AM ET: COLLINS ATTACKS OSSOFF ON DONOR ASSOCIATED WITH EPSTEINCNN, 9:07 AM ET: COLLINS ATTACKS OSSOFF ON DONOR ASSOCIATED WITH EPSTEINCNN, 9:07 AM ET: COLLINS ATTACKS OSSOFF ON DONOR ASSOCIATED WITH EPSTEINFox News, 9:41 AM ET: OSSOFF ADDRESSES 2028 SPECULATIONCNN, 12:31 PM ET: OSSOFF: "I HAVE ZERO INTEREST IN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT"CNN, 12:31 PM ET: OSSOFF: "I HAVE ZERO INTEREST IN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT"CNN, 3:09 PM ET: OSSOFF: "I HAVE ZERO INTEREST IN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT"CNN, 3:10 PM ET: OSSOFF: "I HAVE ZERO INTEREST IN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT"CNN, 4:40 PM ET: OSSOFF: "I HAVE ZERO INTEREST IN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT"CNN, 4:41 PM ET: OSSOFF: "I HAVE ZERO INTEREST IN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT"
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📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “Zero Interest in Running for President” 4 “I'm not running for president” “zero interest in running for president” 2

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
  • Newsmax (2 wordings): “Ossoff: 'Zero Interest' in Running for President in 2028” → “Ossoff: 'Zero Interest' in Running for President”
  • Yahoo News (2 wordings): “Jon Ossoff shuts down 2028 presidential speculation in heated Georgia Senate debate” → “In heated Georgia Senate debate, Jon Ossoff says he won’t run for president in 2028”
Every outlet's first headline (10), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN7 min
Fox News9 s
  • OSSOFF: "I HAVE ZERO INTEREST IN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT" CNN, 4 min
  • COLLINS ATTACKS OSSOFF ON DONOR ASSOCIATED WITH EPSTEIN CNN, 3 min
  • OSSOFF ADDRESSES 2028 SPECULATION Fox News, 9 s

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Jon Ossoff Georgia United States Senate Georgia Senate

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Ossoff vs. Collins Senate Debate

  1. Georgia senators debate in Senate race

    Oct 9, 7 AM ET

  2. Senators debate in Michigan Georgia and Maine

    Oct 9, 10 PM ET

  3. Senator Jon Ossoff says he will not run for president (this story)

    Oct 14, 8 AM ET

  4. Georgia senators debate in heated Senate race

    Oct 14, 10 AM ET

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