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🗞️ Story file #453

Senator Jon Ossoff says he has zero interest in running for president

Oct 14, 8 AM ET to Oct 15, 10 AM 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

Oct 14, 12 PM6 PMOct 156 AM510leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 14, 8 AM to Oct 15, 10 AM ET (peak 10), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 146 AM12 PM6 PMOct 156 AMPoliticoPoliticoPolitico, 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"
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.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “Zero Interest in Running for President” 2 “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

🧵 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. Jon Ossoff and Mike Collins debate in Georgia Senate race

    Oct 14, 10 AM ET

  4. Senator Jon Ossoff says he has zero interest in running for president (this story)

    Oct 14, 8 AM ET