{"id":18036,"date":"2026-01-22T09:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kelly-to-cnn-says-hes-seriously-thinking-about-running-for-president\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T09:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:22:07","slug":"kelly-to-cnn-says-hes-seriously-thinking-about-running-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/kelly-to-cnn-says-hes-seriously-thinking-about-running-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly, to BLN, says he&#8217;s seriously thinking about running for president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) told BLN he is seriously considering running for president in 2028. &ldquo;I still think it needs to be the right person for the moment, and we don&rsquo;t know what that moment is yet,&rdquo; he said in a wide-ranging interview published Wednesday. The retired astronaut and Navy officer is embroiled in a&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5700211-senator-kelly-trump-threats\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) told BLN he is seriously considering running for president in 2028. &ldquo;I still think it needs to be the right person for the moment, and we don&rsquo;t know what that moment is yet,&rdquo; he said in a wide-ranging interview published Wednesday. The retired astronaut and Navy officer is embroiled in a&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18036","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\/18036","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=18036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}