{"id":11851,"date":"2025-07-31T01:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/danny-davis-to-announce-he-wont-seek-house-reelection-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T01:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:20:29","slug":"danny-davis-to-announce-he-wont-seek-house-reelection-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/danny-davis-to-announce-he-wont-seek-house-reelection-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Davis to announce he won\u2019t seek House reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Rep. Danny Davis of Illinois is expected to announce Thursday he won&rsquo;t run for reelection in 2026, according to two people granted anonymity to discuss his plans in advance. Davis &mdash; at 83, one of the oldest members of Congress &mdash; plans a news conference Thursday morning where he is also likely to make an endorsement for what is expected to be a highly competitive race&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/30\/congress\/danny-davis-retiring-00483259\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Rep. Danny Davis of Illinois is expected to announce Thursday he won&rsquo;t run for reelection in 2026, according to two people granted anonymity to discuss his plans in advance. Davis &mdash; at 83, one of the oldest members of Congress &mdash; plans a news conference Thursday morning where he is also likely to make [&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-11851","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\/11851","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=11851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}