{"id":16719,"date":"2025-12-15T11:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/shapiro-backs-brooks-in-primary-for-top-dem-target-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T11:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:20:31","slug":"shapiro-backs-brooks-in-primary-for-top-dem-target-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/shapiro-backs-brooks-in-primary-for-top-dem-target-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapiro backs Brooks in primary for top Dem target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is endorsing firefighter union head Bob Brooks in the state&rsquo;s 7th Congressional District &mdash; the potential 2028 presidential contender putting his thumb on the scale in a crowded primary for a seat that&rsquo;s among Democrats&rsquo; top targets to flip in the midterms&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/12\/12\/congress\/shapiro-backs-brooks-in-key-pa-house-race-00690263\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is endorsing firefighter union head Bob Brooks in the state&rsquo;s 7th Congressional District &mdash; the potential 2028 presidential contender putting his thumb on the scale in a crowded primary for a seat that&rsquo;s among Democrats&rsquo; top targets to flip in the midterms&#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-16719","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\/16719","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=16719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}