{"id":11084,"date":"2025-07-08T13:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/don-davis-eyes-open-north-carolina-senate-seat-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T13:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:21:21","slug":"don-davis-eyes-open-north-carolina-senate-seat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/don-davis-eyes-open-north-carolina-senate-seat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Davis eyes open North Carolina Senate seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Rep. Don Davis is exploring a run for the North Carolina Senate seat being vacated by retiring GOP Sen. Thom Tillis, according to a spokesperson. Davis is &#8220;looking at all options and not ruling anything out,&#8221; said the spokesperson, Hannah Spengler. But running for the Senate seat would mean giving up a competitive House seat in a district won by President Donald Trump last year&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/07\/congress\/don-davis-senate-00441092\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Rep. Don Davis is exploring a run for the North Carolina Senate seat being vacated by retiring GOP Sen. Thom Tillis, according to a spokesperson. Davis is &#8220;looking at all options and not ruling anything out,&#8221; said the spokesperson, Hannah Spengler. But running for the Senate seat would mean giving up a competitive House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084","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=11084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}