Pete hegseth reportedly seeks Senate seat amid impeachment concerns

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Pete hegseth reportedly seeks Senate seat amid impeachment concerns

Oct 26, 4 PM ET to Oct 27, 7 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

6outlets carried it
🫏5 · 0 · 0🐘left · center · right
15 hourson the front pages
6front pages at once, at its peak
4 minof TV captions

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Oct 26, 4 PM ETfirst on a front page: Crooks and Liars
Oct 26, 4 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages
Oct 27, 7 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 26, 4 PM to Oct 27, 7 AM ET (peak 6), by the outlets' lean: left · not rated

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 quoted: “Angling”

Every outlet's first headline (6), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost Pete Hegseth Reportedly Angling For Blackburn’s Senate Seat To Avoid Impeachment Oct 26, 7 AM ET
Raw Story Hegseth’s Senate hopes collide with grim prediction as GOP senators eye impeachment escape Oct 26, 2 PM ET
The New Republic Hegseth Eyes Senate Seat as He Tries to Avoid Getting the Axe Oct 26, 11 AM ET
Mediaite Pete Hegseth Reportedly ‘Angling’ for Senate Seat as Impeachment Fears Grow Oct 25, 9 PM ET
The Independent Hegseth eyes Senate seat amid fears Trump could fire him: report Oct 26, 11 AM ET
Crooks and Liars Hegseth Reportedly Eyes Senate Seat As Impeachment Threat Grows Oct 26, 4 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN4 min

HEGSETH'S FAITH ADVISER SHARED RACIST AND HOMOPHOBIC POSTS CNN, 2 min
SENIOR HEGSETH ADVISER WARNED WOMEN NOT TO "BELIEVE THE LIES" THAT A CAREER CAN GIVE THEM FULFILLMENT CNN, 55 s
POSTS REVEAL EXTREMIST VIEWS OF HEGSETH'S KEY ADVISER CNN, 32 s
SENIOR HEGSETH ADVISER: "SEPARATION OF CHURCH & STATE DOESN'T EXIST" CNN, 30 s
CNN EXCLUSIVE: HETSETH ADVISER SHARED RACIST POSTS CNN, 24 s
SENIOR HETSETH ADVISER SAID LGBTQ WAS A "SATANIC CULT" CNN, 23 s

what people online made of it

🧩 How it's being told

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🧩 Office as a shield 🫏 2 left shows
“Pete Hegseth is angling to become a U.S. Senator from Tennessee to avoid an impeachment vote.”

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

🗣️ names in it: Pete Hegseth Senate Republican Party Donald Trump Blackburn

what the fact-checkers looked into

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the running story it belongs to

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