{"id":11506,"date":"2025-07-21T02:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cassidy-holds-cash-advantage-over-gop-challengers-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T02:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:20:51","slug":"cassidy-holds-cash-advantage-over-gop-challengers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cassidy-holds-cash-advantage-over-gop-challengers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassidy holds cash advantage over GOP challengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Embattled Republican Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy maintains a significant cash advantage over his primary challengers as the GOP&rsquo;s MAGA wing attempts to unseat him over his vote in President Donald Trump&rsquo;s 2021 impeachment trial. Cassidy raised $1.6 million in the second quarter, significantly more than donors gave his two self-funding challengers&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/16\/congress\/bill-cassidy-louisiana-senate-fundraising-00455756\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embattled Republican Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy maintains a significant cash advantage over his primary challengers as the GOP&rsquo;s MAGA wing attempts to unseat him over his vote in President Donald Trump&rsquo;s 2021 impeachment trial. Cassidy raised $1.6 million in the second quarter, significantly more than donors gave his two self-funding challengers&#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-11506","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\/11506","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=11506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}