{"id":18114,"date":"2026-01-23T18:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ruben-gallego-a-bright-spot-in-a-bad-year-for-democrats-hears-white-house-calls\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:22:17","slug":"ruben-gallego-a-bright-spot-in-a-bad-year-for-democrats-hears-white-house-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ruben-gallego-a-bright-spot-in-a-bad-year-for-democrats-hears-white-house-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruben Gallego, a bright spot in a bad year for Democrats, hears White House calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 election was a dark chapter for Democrats nearly across the board, as they lost not only the presidential race but also both the House and the Senate.  Sen. Ruben Gallego&#8217;s win in Arizona, against that backdrop, was one of the few bright spots of the cycle for the party&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5701446-ruben-gallego-appealing-voters\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 election was a dark chapter for Democrats nearly across the board, as they lost not only the presidential race but also both the House and the Senate. Sen. Ruben Gallego&#8217;s win in Arizona, against that backdrop, was one of the few bright spots of the cycle for the party&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18114","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\/18114","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=18114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}