{"id":16348,"date":"2025-12-06T23:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-gop-fears-what-tennessee-means-for-2026-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T23:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:20:18","slug":"capitol-agenda-gop-fears-what-tennessee-means-for-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-gop-fears-what-tennessee-means-for-2026-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: GOP fears what Tennessee means for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson held onto a much-needed red seat in Tennessee Tuesday night &mdash; but fellow Republicans say this isn&rsquo;t cause for celebration. Johnson&rsquo;s leadership&rsquo;s team was bracing for a tighter-than-comfortable race in the special election to succeed former Rep. Mark Green. But the single-digit margin of victory for Matt Van Epps was still a hard pill to swallow after national Republicans pulled out all the stops to rescue their candidate on the final days of the campaign&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/12\/03\/congress\/tennessee-republicans-2026-midterms-johnson-problems-00674146\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson held onto a much-needed red seat in Tennessee Tuesday night &mdash; but fellow Republicans say this isn&rsquo;t cause for celebration. Johnson&rsquo;s leadership&rsquo;s team was bracing for a tighter-than-comfortable race in the special election to succeed former Rep. Mark Green. But the single-digit margin of victory for Matt Van Epps was still a [&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-16348","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\/16348","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=16348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}