{"id":11987,"date":"2025-08-03T05:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/florida-gop-desantis-may-follow-texass-lead\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T05:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T05:21:00","slug":"florida-gop-desantis-may-follow-texass-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/florida-gop-desantis-may-follow-texass-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida GOP, DeSantis may follow Texas\u2019s lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Republicans are increasingly pushing to redraw the state&rsquo;s congressional lines following a similar move by the Texas GOP. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Wednesday he is &ldquo;very seriously&rdquo; looking at asking the state Legislature to redraw the state&rsquo;s congressional map, arguing the 2020 census is flawed&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5432996-florida-republicans-redrawing-congressional-lines\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Republicans are increasingly pushing to redraw the state&rsquo;s congressional lines following a similar move by the Texas GOP. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Wednesday he is &ldquo;very seriously&rdquo; looking at asking the state Legislature to redraw the state&rsquo;s congressional map, arguing the 2020 census is flawed&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11987","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=11987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}