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Will Scott Jennings be the next White House Press Secretary?

As of Oct 17, 2026, 3:57 AM ET, Polymarket priced this market at 19.5% (down from 26.5% 24 hours earlier). It had $28.9K traded in the past 24 hours, $17K of order-book liquidity and a bid-ask spread of 1.0 pts. probcast.co rates the support behind this price as weak.

Market probability
19.5%
−7 percentage points
over 24 hours26.5% → 19.5%
Moving fastBig move, weak backing

Thin market where small orders can move the price — and today's move was spread across many accounts.

Price historyPolymarket

Source: Polymarket price history

How credible was the move?

Methodology →

Move validity

Weak

Consensus stability

Forming

Contract clarity

High

Can you trust this price?

Two different questions: how hard the price is to move, and whose trading set it.

Market capacity

How hard is it to move this price?

ThinTight spread

Order-book liquidity

$17K

Bid-ask spread

1.0 pts

24h volume

$28.9K

Total volume

$28.9K

It would take roughly $149.5 of buying to move the price up by ~5 pts.

Little money on the book — a modest order can move this price, so treat swings with care.

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

Broad participation
24%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

57

Trades

183

over 12h

Largest order

$1.1K

$4.5K traded across these 183 trades (last 12h).

Many independent accounts traded — the price reflects a crowd, not one trader.

Recent trade activity$4.5K traded

From the latest trade tape (most recent 200 prints) — a live activity sample, not a lifetime total.

What this market actually measures

This market will resolve according to the next individual who the White House announces has been picked to be the White House Press Secretary who replaces Katie Zacharia by December 31, 2027, 11:59 PM ET. A person being announced as an acting or interim holder of the position will not count for purposes of this market.

This summary shows the opening of the venue's official rules. ProbCast has not yet generated an independent plain-English interpretation for this contract — review the full rules before relying on it.

View full official resolution rules

This market will resolve according to the next individual who the White House announces has been picked to be the White House Press Secretary who replaces Katie Zacharia by December 31, 2027, 11:59 PM ET. A person being announced as an acting or interim holder of the position will not count for purposes of this market. In the event that no individual is chosen to replace Katie Zacharia, or the role is abolished, by December 31, 2027 at 11:59 PM ET, this market will resolve to "Other". Once a qualifying announcement has occurred, subsequent withdrawals or replacement announcements will not affect resolution. The primary resolution source for this market will be official information from the White House and Donald Trump, however a consensus of credible reporting may also be used.

Why the odds moved

The probability fell 7.0 percentage points over the last 24 hours (26.5% → 19.5%).

No verified catalyst has been linked to this move yet. ProbCast does not attribute moves to news without evidence connecting the timing of a specific report to the repricing.

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesDecember 31, 2027 at 11:59 PM ET

    The contract must resolve based on what has happened by this date.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 17, 3:58 AM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Advanced analysis (experimental)

Research signals — these models are still accumulating the history needed for full validation, and they can disagree with the headline read. Model confidence: low · expected error ±29 pts.

Reacting to newsLegacy movement classifier: noisy

What's happening

high classifier confidence
Reacting to news

The price is actively repricing on real volume. The number is still moving — don't treat the latest print as settled consensus yet.

  • Probability moved 7.0 pts in ≤6h on adequate liquidity

Read the latest price with caution; conditions make it an unreliable summary right now.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
13Low
Where the price path tends to go next59 observed
  • Thin-liquidity spike77%
  • Choppy / mean-reverting16%
  • Stable consensus3%

Short-term motion of the price line (~1h), distinct from the environment above — not a prediction of the final outcome.

DurabilityLow· half-life <1h
PredictabilityElevated irreducibility

Secondary read: leaning toward Thin market.

A read-only classification of the market environment — how much weight the current price deserves as a read of consensus. It describes conditions, never a trade.

Change (pts)1H0.06H-7.024H-7.07D-7.0

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