{"id":12301,"date":"2025-08-13T21:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/virginia-police-group-splits-ticket-backing-spanberger-and-downballot-republicans\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T21:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:21:20","slug":"virginia-police-group-splits-ticket-backing-spanberger-and-downballot-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/virginia-police-group-splits-ticket-backing-spanberger-and-downballot-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia police group splits ticket, backing Spanberger and downballot Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Virginia Police Benevolent Association split its endorsement ahead of the state&rsquo;s elections in November, backing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger, Republican lieutenant governor candidate John Reid and incumbent Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) on Wednesday.&nbsp; &ldquo;Abigail Spanberger grew up in a law enforcement family and is a former federal law enforcement officer herself&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5450579-virginia-police-endorsements-election\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virginia Police Benevolent Association split its endorsement ahead of the state&rsquo;s elections in November, backing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger, Republican lieutenant governor candidate John Reid and incumbent Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) on Wednesday.&nbsp; &ldquo;Abigail Spanberger grew up in a law enforcement family and is a former federal law enforcement officer herself&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12301","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\/12301","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=12301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}