🧵 Saga file #75
Vance-Trump 2028 endorsement
Oct 18, 11 PM ET to Oct 21, 6 PM ET
- 2parts so far
- 21outlets carried a part
- 🫏5 · 1 · 14🐘left · center · right
- 2.8 daysrunning so far
- 4 minof TV captions
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
- Oct 18, 11 PM ET · on the front pages 2.6 daysJD Vance says he thinks Trump would endorse him if he ran for president
- Oct 21, 2 PM ET · on the front pages 4 hoursTrump declines to commit to endorsing Vance in 2028
📰 Spread
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🧩 The parts
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1. JD Vance says he thinks Trump would endorse him if he ran for president
Oct 18, 11 PM ET · 19 outlets · on the front pages 2.6 days
“JD Vance Says Donald Trump Will Decide 2028 GOP Presidential Nominee” first: The Daily Wire
📺 CNN 2 min, Fox News 2 min
2. Trump declines to commit to endorsing Vance in 2028
Oct 21, 2 PM ET · 6 outlets · on the front pages 4 hours
“WATCH: Trump doesn't commit to endorsing Vance for president in 2028 yet” first: PBS NewsHour, The Hill
🧩 How it's been told
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- 2026-10-21 ✨ Political infighting ×2
- 2026-10-19 ✨ Lacks charisma ×1 ✨ Lapdog ×1
🧶 Retelling
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🦗 Nobody's retelling any part of it online yet, as far as the daily report can tell.