{"id":16688,"date":"2025-12-14T02:20:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T02:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/david-trone-launches-primary-bid-for-old-house-seat-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T02:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T02:20:33","slug":"david-trone-launches-primary-bid-for-old-house-seat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/david-trone-launches-primary-bid-for-old-house-seat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"David Trone launches primary bid for old House seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland Democrat David Trone, a former three-term House lawmaker who left his seat to launch an ill-fated Senate run in 2024, is making a play for his old job in a primary challenge against first-term Rep. April McClain Delaney, he announced Thursday. The battle &mdash; in a blue-leaning district Republicans have targeted in the past &mdash; could set up an extraordinarily expensive primary between Trone and Delaney&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/12\/11\/congress\/david-trone-house-primary-bid-00686675\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland Democrat David Trone, a former three-term House lawmaker who left his seat to launch an ill-fated Senate run in 2024, is making a play for his old job in a primary challenge against first-term Rep. April McClain Delaney, he announced Thursday. The battle &mdash; in a blue-leaning district Republicans have targeted in the past [&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-16688","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\/16688","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=16688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}