{"id":16418,"date":"2025-12-09T10:20:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/texas-rep-marc-veasey-to-drop-his-reelection-bid-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:20:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:20:52","slug":"texas-rep-marc-veasey-to-drop-his-reelection-bid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/texas-rep-marc-veasey-to-drop-his-reelection-bid-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rep. Marc Veasey to drop his reelection bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Marc Veasey is set to drop his House bid in a Dallas-area seat and will instead run for Tarrant County judge, according to a person familiar with the situation granted anonymity. It&rsquo;s the latest reshuffle brought on by the Texas GOP&rsquo;s gerrymander, which could yield the party as many as five additional seats in next year&rsquo;s midterms&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/12\/08\/congress\/texas-rep-marc-veasey-to-drop-his-reelection-bid-00682223\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Marc Veasey is set to drop his House bid in a Dallas-area seat and will instead run for Tarrant County judge, according to a person familiar with the situation granted anonymity. It&rsquo;s the latest reshuffle brought on by the Texas GOP&rsquo;s gerrymander, which could yield the party as many as five additional seats in [&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-16418","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\/16418","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=16418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}