Heavy trading backs McConnell Senate exit at 41%

Name: Heavy trading backs McConnell Senate exit at 41%
Creator: ClearMarket
Published: 2026-07-24T10:14:05+00:00
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

41% · $230K 24h

record: CMSIG20260724VS00 | category: volume-spike | target: CM-EVT-9DBYNLBPG3 | published: 2026-07-24

4-bullet brief | narrative

Market prices a 41% chance McConnell vacates his seat before term ends, near coin-flip territory.
Polymarket logs $230K in 24h, equal to 33% of all-time volume, a sharp single-session concentration.
Fresh attention on a sitting senator's tenure signals traders are pricing real near-term event risk.
Resolves YES if McConnell formally steps down before his Senate term expires.

atomic briefs | structured for retrieval

[01] volume_anomaly

liquidity poly_vol_24h: $229.6K

evaluation

The model, prompt version, and confidence behind this wire are published below — so you can see how it was judged, and re-check it yourself.

judge_engine: llm_judge_cm_signal_v1
judge_verdict: wire_eligible
judge_confidence: 0.81 / 1.00
prompt_template: volume_spike_v1 github · auditable

citation graph

Every wire traces back to the ClearMarket event it is built on, and out to each venue’s own market page — so any figure here can be verified at its source.

internal

cm_event: /events/will-mitch-mcconnell-resign-from-the-senate-before-his-term-ends/

external

venue_a: polymarket · 0x15d2e66dcf1d63c5695d6d0e9e2f8e06dd246d00fd5dfc254f2b22baa33bfa1b

programmatic access · four surfaces, same payload

AI grounded search reads embedded JSON-LD in HTML. Developers query REST. Agentic AI clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor) call MCP tools. AI crawlers index via /llms.txt. Same canonical record at every surface.

HTML	browsers, AI grounded search, crawlers (contains embedded JSON-LD `@type: Dataset`)	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/mitch-mcconnell-steps-down-from-senate-b-vol-229639/`
JSON	REST API for developers	`https://clearmarket.fyi/signals/mitch-mcconnell-steps-down-from-senate-b-vol-229639.json`
MCP	agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue)	`clearmarket.get_signal("mitch-mcconnell-steps-down-from-senate-b-vol-229639")`
AGENT	AI crawler discovery index	`/llms.txt`

 PM data: platform APIs (hourly refresh). News context: retrieved with source citations. Editorial judgment: LLM judge with prompt template versioned per wire type. Per-claim provenance inline above; full per-field provenance map at the JSON endpoint under field_provenance.
  raw JSON record · same payload returned by REST endpoint
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  "$schema": "https://clearmarket.fyi/schema/signal/v1.json",
  "provenance_version": "0.2.0",
  "record_id": "CMSIG20260724VS00",
  "published_at": "2026-07-24T10:14:05+00:00",
  "detection": "volume_spike",
  "category_tag": "VOLUME_SPIKE",
  "secondary_tags": [],
  "pre_news_classification": "pre_news",
  "target_event_id": "CM-EVT-9DBYNLBPG3",
  "target_event_slug": "will-mitch-mcconnell-resign-from-the-senate-before-his-term-ends",
  "event_question": "Will Mitch McConnell step down from the Senate before his term ends?",
  "bullets": [
    "Market prices a 41% chance McConnell vacates his seat before term ends, near coin-flip territory.",
    "Polymarket logs $230K in 24h, equal to 33% of all-time volume, a sharp single-session concentration.",
    "Fresh attention on a sitting senator's tenure signals traders are pricing real near-term event risk.",
    "Resolves YES if McConnell formally steps down before his Senate term expires."
  ],
  "atomic_claims": [
    {
      "type": "volume_anomaly",
      "provenance": "24h + cumulative volume direct from polymarket API; intensity = 24h/cumulative (derived)",
      "field_provenance": {
        "volume_24h_usd": {
          "tier": "direct",
          "method": "polymarket_api"
        },
        "intensity": {
          "tier": "derived",
          "method": "arithmetic",
          "inputs": [
            "volume_24h_usd",
            "volume_cumulative_usd"
          ]
        }
      },
      "liquidity_context": {
        "poly_vol_24h_usd": 229639.04661000005
      }
    }
  ],
  "evaluation": {
    "judge_engine": "llm_judge_cm_signal_v1",
    "judge_verdict": "wire_eligible",
    "judge_confidence": 0.81,
    "prompt_template": "volume_spike_v1"
  },
  "citations": {
    "internal": {
      "cm_event": "/events/will-mitch-mcconnell-resign-from-the-senate-before-his-term-ends/",
      "related": []
    },
    "external": {
      "venue_a": null,
      "venue_b": null,
      "benchmark": null
    }
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "ClearMarket market record: Will Mitch McConnell step down from the Senate before h",
      "url": "https://clearmarket.fyi/events/will-mitch-mcconnell-resign-from-the-senate-before-his-term-ends",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-07-24T10:14:05+00:00"
    }
  ],
  "field_provenance": {
    "pm_data": "polymarket_api",
    "news_context": "retrieval_grounded",
    "editorial_judgment": "cm_signal_llm_judge"
  }
}
 
   PROVENANCE PROTOCOL v0.2 · [direct] venue api · [mediated] grounded web fetch + source url · [derived] computed from listed inputs · [editorial] versioned llm judgment · full spec /schema/provenance/v1

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