{"id":17563,"date":"2026-01-11T18:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/how-john-thune-is-trying-to-save-the-senate-for-republicans-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T18:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:22:08","slug":"how-john-thune-is-trying-to-save-the-senate-for-republicans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/how-john-thune-is-trying-to-save-the-senate-for-republicans-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How John Thune is trying to save the Senate for Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate majority leader appeared at the U.S.-Mexico border to rekindle interest in the GOP&rsquo;s legislative accomplishments&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/01\/10\/john-thune-senate-midterms-campaign-00721008\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate majority leader appeared at the U.S.-Mexico border to rekindle interest in the GOP&rsquo;s legislative accomplishments&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17563","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\/17563","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=17563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}