{"id":16236,"date":"2025-12-03T22:21:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/henry-cuellar-will-seek-reelection-as-a-democrat-after-trump-pardon-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T22:21:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:21:05","slug":"henry-cuellar-will-seek-reelection-as-a-democrat-after-trump-pardon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/henry-cuellar-will-seek-reelection-as-a-democrat-after-trump-pardon-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Cuellar will seek reelection as a Democrat after Trump pardon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar filed for reelection Wednesday as a Democrat and told reporters he had no intention to retire or switch parties hours after President Donald Trump announced pardons for him and his wife. &ldquo;It came as a surprise,&rdquo; Cuellar told a small group of reporters about the pardon&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/12\/03\/congress\/henry-cuellar-pardon-reelection-party-00674518\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar filed for reelection Wednesday as a Democrat and told reporters he had no intention to retire or switch parties hours after President Donald Trump announced pardons for him and his wife. &ldquo;It came as a surprise,&rdquo; Cuellar told a small group of reporters about the pardon&#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-16236","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\/16236","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=16236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}