{"id":13764,"date":"2025-09-27T07:20:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fec-vice-chair-seen-as-contender-for-chip-roy-seat-to-resign\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T07:20:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T07:20:35","slug":"fec-vice-chair-seen-as-contender-for-chip-roy-seat-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fec-vice-chair-seen-as-contender-for-chip-roy-seat-to-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"FEC vice chair, seen as contender for Chip Roy seat, to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Election Commission (FEC) vice chairman Trey Trainor (R) confirmed that he&rsquo;s resigning from his position on Thursday as he eyes the seat of Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas). Trainor has signalled his interest in running for Congress in previous months. His resignation, first reported by the Washington Examiner&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/5524752-trainor-resigns-eyes-congress\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Election Commission (FEC) vice chairman Trey Trainor (R) confirmed that he&rsquo;s resigning from his position on Thursday as he eyes the seat of Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas). Trainor has signalled his interest in running for Congress in previous months. His resignation, first reported by the Washington Examiner&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13764","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\/13764","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=13764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}