🗞️ Story file #622
JD Vance says he thinks Trump would endorse him if he ran for president
Oct 18, 11 PM ET to Oct 21, 2 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean
- 19outlets carried it
- 🫏4 · 1 · 13🐘left · center · right
- 2.6 dayson the front pages
- 15front pages at once, at its peak
- 4 minof TV captions
- 6people retold it online
- 1 of 2parts of a saga
👣 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.
- Oct 18, 11 PM ETfirst on a front page: Townhall
- Oct 19, 12 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
- Oct 19, 9 AM ETretold online by 6 people
- Oct 19, 11 PM ETpeak: on 15 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Political Wire
💬 quoted: “I Think” “Toy” “I Don't Know, Man” “There's a Chance.” “there's a chance” 3 “have to make a decision” “We've got 4 little kids”
🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 vance reveals
✏️ 8 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- ABC News (2 wordings): “JD Vance says he thinks Trump would endorse him if he ran for president” → “Related: JD Vance says he thinks Trump would endorse him if he ran for president”
- HuffPost (2 wordings): “JD Vance Reveals Why Trump Might Not Endorse Him Right Away In 2028 Race” → “JD Vance Says He's Prepared For Trump To 'Toy' With Him In Race For President”
- Newsmax (3 wordings): “Vance: 'A Chance' He Won't Run in 2028” → “Vance: 'I Think' Trump Would Endorse for President”
- Red State (2 wordings): “Will JD Vance Skip Running in 2028? 'There's a Chance.'” → “JD Vance Will JD Vance Skip Running in 2028? 'There's a Chance.' Ward Clark”
- The Daily Wire (2 wordings): “JD Vance Says Donald Trump Will Decide 2028 GOP Presidential Nominee” → “JD Vance Just Threw A Curveball Into The 2028 Race”
- The Gateway Pundit (8 wordings): “WATCH: VP JD Vance Reveals The Reason He May Not Run for President in 2028” → “89.8K views WATCH: VP JD Vance Reveals The Reason He May Not Run for President in 2028”
- Townhall (3 wordings): “What to Make of JD Vance's Latest Remarks About a Potential 2028 Run” → “JD Vance JD Vance Might Not Run in 2028, and He Gave His Primary Reason Matt Vespa”
- Washington Examiner (4 wordings): “Vance says he’ll ‘have to make a decision’ on 2028 presidential run after midterm elections” → “Trump says he hasn’t spoken to Vance about a 2028 endorsement”
Every outlet's first headline (19), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
JD Vance Reveals Why Trump Might Not Endorse Him Right Away In 2028 Race Oct 20, 10 AM ET
ABC News
JD Vance says he thinks Trump would endorse him if he ran for president Oct 19, 11 PM ET
Mediaite
JD Vance Not Sure Trump Would Endorse Him in 2028: ‘I Don’t Know, Man’ Oct 19, 9 PM ET
USA Today
Vance says 'there's a chance' he may not run for president in 2028 Oct 19, 3 PM ET
The Hill
Vance says he thinks Trump will endorse him if he runs Oct 20, 12 PM ET
Just the News
Vance discusses possible 2028 presidential run during town hall: 'there's a chance' Oct 19, 9 AM ET
The Epoch Times
Vance Says He'll Wait Until After Midterms to Decide on Presidential Run Oct 19, 1 PM ET
The Washington Times
Vance says he’s undecided on 2028, not guaranteed to run Oct 19, 10 AM ET
Washington Examiner
Vance says he’ll ‘have to make a decision’ on 2028 presidential run after midterm elections Oct 18, 12 AM ET
New York Post
Vance reveals ‘there’s a chance’ he won’t run for president in 2028: ‘We’ve got 4 little kids’ Oct 18, 2 PM ET
Newsmax
Vance: 'A Chance' He Won't Run in 2028 Oct 19, 9 AM ET- OAN Vance reveals ‘there’s a chance’ he won’t run for president — as he focuses on his growing family: ‘We’ve got 4 little kids’ Oct 19, 4 PM ET
Red State
Will JD Vance Skip Running in 2028? 'There's a Chance.' Oct 18, 8 PM ET
The Daily Wire
JD Vance Says Donald Trump Will Decide 2028 GOP Presidential Nominee Oct 17, 12 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit
WATCH: VP JD Vance Reveals The Reason He May Not Run for President in 2028 Oct 18, 4 PM ET
The Post Millennial
Vance says ‘there’s a chance’ he won’t run for president in 2028 Oct 18, 6 PM ET
The Western Journal
Watch: JD Vance Sneaks in Potentially Game-Changing 2028 Announcement in CBS Interview - Will He Even Be Around? Oct 19, 11 AM ET
Townhall
What to Make of JD Vance's Latest Remarks About a Potential 2028 Run Oct 18, 11 PM ET
Crooks and Liars
JD Vance Admits He Doesn't Even Know If Trump Would Endorse Him In 2028 Election Oct 20, 5 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- Does anyone really think Vance has a snowball's chance to be president in 2029? CNN, 62 s
- JD WANTS TO SLEEP ON 2028 Fox News, 62 s
- TRUMP DOESN'T COMMIT TO ENDORSING VANCE IN 2028 YET CNN, 30 s
- VANCE GETS THE 2028 QUESTION Fox News, 29 s
- VANCE'S CHANCES IN 2028 CNN, 25 s
- VANCE HASN'T DECIDED ON 2028 Fox News, 14 s
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- JD Vance is a charisma-lacking, integrity-deficient sycophant who is worse than Donald Trump. Oct 19: told by 6 people
🎙️ voters said it too, in S6 Ep60: Republicans Are Suddenly Fighting for Their Lives in Ohio (with Andrew Tobias)
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: JD Vance Vice President of the United States Ward Clark 2028 United States presidential election
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Trump and Vance 2028 race
JD Vance says he thinks Trump would endorse him if he ran for president (this story)
Oct 18, 11 PM ET
Trump says he hasn't spoken to Vance about 2028 endorsement
Oct 21, 2 PM ET