{"id":11161,"date":"2025-07-10T17:20:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T17:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/top-democrats-demand-apology-from-florida-republican-over-attack-on-ilhan-omar-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T17:20:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T17:20:59","slug":"top-democrats-demand-apology-from-florida-republican-over-attack-on-ilhan-omar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/top-democrats-demand-apology-from-florida-republican-over-attack-on-ilhan-omar-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Democrats demand apology from Florida Republican over attack on Ilhan Omar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Democratic leaders slammed Rep. Randy Fine Wednesday and called on the Florida Republican to apologize after he insinuated that Rep. Ilhan Omar was a terrorist. In an unusual joint statement, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) called Fine&#8217;s comments &#8220;unhinged&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/09\/congress\/randy-fine-ilhan-omar-00445504\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democratic leaders slammed Rep. Randy Fine Wednesday and called on the Florida Republican to apologize after he insinuated that Rep. Ilhan Omar was a terrorist. In an unusual joint statement, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) called Fine&#8217;s comments &#8220;unhinged&#8230;Read More<\/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-11161","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\/11161","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=11161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}