{"id":10597,"date":"2025-06-24T21:20:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/speaker-johnson-stops-short-of-backing-massie-for-re-election-amid-trump-feud\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T21:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:20:47","slug":"speaker-johnson-stops-short-of-backing-massie-for-re-election-amid-trump-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/speaker-johnson-stops-short-of-backing-massie-for-re-election-amid-trump-feud\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Johnson stops short of backing Massie for re-election amid Trump feud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) stopped short of endorsing Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) for re-election on Tuesday, days after President Trump threatened to back a primary challenger for the GOP lawmaker &mdash;&nbsp;the latest jab in the long-running feud between the two Republicans. The lukewarm response follows days of Trump attacking Massie on social media after the&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5366489-trump-massie-feud-speaker-johnson\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) stopped short of endorsing Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) for re-election on Tuesday, days after President Trump threatened to back a primary challenger for the GOP lawmaker &mdash;&nbsp;the latest jab in the long-running feud between the two Republicans. The lukewarm response follows days of Trump attacking Massie on social media after the&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}