{"id":18671,"date":"2026-02-05T18:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republican-barry-loudermilk-wont-seek-reelection-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:22:09","slug":"republican-barry-loudermilk-wont-seek-reelection-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/republican-barry-loudermilk-wont-seek-reelection-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Barry Loudermilk won\u2019t seek reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk announced he will not run for reelection this year, the latest Republican to retire amid what&rsquo;s shaping up to be a tough midterm for Republicans. Loudermilk, who was first elected to Congress in 2014, said in a statement he&rsquo;s retiring to &ldquo;spend more dedicated time with my family.&rdquo; &ldquo;Although I continue to have strong support from the people of the Eleventh Congressional District&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/04\/congress\/barry-loudermilk-georgia-retires-00766319\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk announced he will not run for reelection this year, the latest Republican to retire amid what&rsquo;s shaping up to be a tough midterm for Republicans. Loudermilk, who was first elected to Congress in 2014, said in a statement he&rsquo;s retiring to &ldquo;spend more dedicated time with my family.&rdquo; &ldquo;Although I [&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-18671","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\/18671","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=18671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}