{"id":16212,"date":"2025-12-03T05:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rep-ayanna-pressley-will-run-for-reelection-foregoing-senate-race-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T05:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:21:00","slug":"rep-ayanna-pressley-will-run-for-reelection-foregoing-senate-race-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rep-ayanna-pressley-will-run-for-reelection-foregoing-senate-race-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Ayanna Pressley will run for reelection, foregoing Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ayanna Pressley won&rsquo;t challenge Sen. Ed Markey for his Senate seat and instead plans to seek reelection to her House seat, she announced today, ending weeks of speculation about the progressive Democrat&rsquo;s political future. &ldquo;Hearing from so many people from throughout our Commonwealth encouraging me to run for the United States Senate was deeply humbling and a testament to the strength of our movement&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/12\/02\/congress\/pressley-seeks-reelection-00673538\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Ayanna Pressley won&rsquo;t challenge Sen. Ed Markey for his Senate seat and instead plans to seek reelection to her House seat, she announced today, ending weeks of speculation about the progressive Democrat&rsquo;s political future. &ldquo;Hearing from so many people from throughout our Commonwealth encouraging me to run for the United States Senate was deeply [&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-16212","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\/16212","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=16212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}