{"id":17251,"date":"2025-12-31T22:20:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/16-predictions-for-american-politics-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:20:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:20:36","slug":"16-predictions-for-american-politics-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/16-predictions-for-american-politics-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Predictions for American Politics in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This multiple-choice look at the year ahead offers predictions on Trump, Congress, the courts and the political surprises of 2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/12\/31\/2026-politics-predictions-quiz-00708039\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This multiple-choice look at the year ahead offers predictions on Trump, Congress, the courts and the political surprises of 2026&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17251","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=17251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}