{"id":14484,"date":"2025-10-16T05:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/andy-barr-maintains-cash-on-hand-edge-in-gop-contest-to-succeed-mcconnell-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:21:08","slug":"andy-barr-maintains-cash-on-hand-edge-in-gop-contest-to-succeed-mcconnell-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/andy-barr-maintains-cash-on-hand-edge-in-gop-contest-to-succeed-mcconnell-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Barr maintains cash on hand edge in GOP contest to succeed McConnell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Andy Barr has maintained his early fundraising edge in the crowded Republican primary to succeed GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell in Kentucky. Barr raised $1.8 million between the beginning of July and the end of September and ended the quarter with $6.7 million in the bank&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/15\/congress\/ky-sen-campaign-fundraising-00611091\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Andy Barr has maintained his early fundraising edge in the crowded Republican primary to succeed GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell in Kentucky. Barr raised $1.8 million between the beginning of July and the end of September and ended the quarter with $6.7 million in the bank&#8230;Read More<\/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-14484","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\/14484","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=14484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}