{"id":11805,"date":"2025-07-29T21:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T21:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wiley-nickel-ends-short-lived-senate-campaign-in-nc-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T21:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T21:21:07","slug":"wiley-nickel-ends-short-lived-senate-campaign-in-nc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wiley-nickel-ends-short-lived-senate-campaign-in-nc-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiley Nickel ends short-lived Senate campaign in NC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rep. Wiley Nickel dropped his bid for North Carolina&#8217;s open Senate seat Tuesday and endorsed Roy Cooper, all but clearing the field for the former Democratic governor.  &#8220;I proudly endorse Governor Cooper for US Senate and look forward to doing everything I can to help him flip this Senate seat from red to blue,&rdquo; said Nickel in a statement&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/29\/congress\/wiley-nickel-ends-senate-campaign-00481128\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rep. Wiley Nickel dropped his bid for North Carolina&#8217;s open Senate seat Tuesday and endorsed Roy Cooper, all but clearing the field for the former Democratic governor. &#8220;I proudly endorse Governor Cooper for US Senate and look forward to doing everything I can to help him flip this Senate seat from red to blue,&rdquo; [&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-11805","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\/11805","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=11805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}