{"id":12975,"date":"2025-09-06T14:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T14:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/justice-democrats-back-a-progressive-challenger-to-rep-jimmy-gomez-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T14:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T14:21:17","slug":"justice-democrats-back-a-progressive-challenger-to-rep-jimmy-gomez-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/justice-democrats-back-a-progressive-challenger-to-rep-jimmy-gomez-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Democrats back a progressive challenger to Rep. Jimmy Gomez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The progressive group Justice Democrats, which focuses on primarying safe-seat Democrats in hopes of moving the party to the left, is throwing its weight behind Angela Gonzales-Torres, a challenger to incumbent Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez of California. In a sign of the party fissures over the war in Gaza that could erupt in the race&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/09\/04\/congress\/justice-democrats-gomez-challenger-00543191\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The progressive group Justice Democrats, which focuses on primarying safe-seat Democrats in hopes of moving the party to the left, is throwing its weight behind Angela Gonzales-Torres, a challenger to incumbent Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez of California. In a sign of the party fissures over the war in Gaza that could erupt in the race&#8230;Read [&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-12975","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\/12975","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=12975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}