Hawley in April of 2017: I am working very hard at the job people elected me to do. It is far too early to be thinking about any future election with so much pressing work to do.” He formed an exploratory cmte in August of 2017 and announced in October https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/danforth-other-top-republicans-push-hawley-to-seek-u-s-senate-over-wagner/article_b096d552-59ed-5fc5-ac69-ca23a0a218ef.html

In other words, maybe a story about a politician saying they're not running for X position doesn't warrant siren symbols when it's almost four years out. All due respect to the good people at @businessinsider. Some of us have just been thru a round of this before.

And I wrote some of those will he/won't he stories in 2017. I often reflect on how I should have been more skeptical of the reluctant politician storyline https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article160768029.html