{"id":17801,"date":"2026-01-16T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bill-cassidy-raises-1-65-million-for-reelection-fight-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:22:18","slug":"bill-cassidy-raises-1-65-million-for-reelection-fight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bill-cassidy-raises-1-65-million-for-reelection-fight-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Cassidy raises $1.65 million for reelection fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bill Cassidy raised $1.65 million in the latest fundraising quarter and has $11 million in cash on hand, his team told Blue Light News, as he seeks to ward off a right-wing primary challenge. The Louisiana Republican is facing several primary challengers on the right fueled by his past criticism of President Donald Trump&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/01\/15\/congress\/cassidy-raises-1-65m-00730420\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bill Cassidy raised $1.65 million in the latest fundraising quarter and has $11 million in cash on hand, his team told Blue Light News, as he seeks to ward off a right-wing primary challenge. The Louisiana Republican is facing several primary challengers on the right fueled by his past criticism of President Donald Trump&#8230;Read [&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-17801","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\/17801","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=17801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}