{"id":18734,"date":"2026-02-07T18:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/josh-shapiros-rise-is-complicated-by-democratic-feelings-about-israel\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T18:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:21:12","slug":"josh-shapiros-rise-is-complicated-by-democratic-feelings-about-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/josh-shapiros-rise-is-complicated-by-democratic-feelings-about-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Shapiro\u2019s rise is complicated by Democratic feelings about Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) is seen as a rising star in his party, and many of his admirers&nbsp;think he could be a strong presidential candidate, pointing&nbsp;to his successes in Pennsylvania.&nbsp; His name is consistently floated in conversation about the 2028 presidential race, and he was considered as a potential running mate for Kamala Harris in 2024&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5727213-governor-shapiro-rising-star-2028\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) is seen as a rising star in his party, and many of his admirers&nbsp;think he could be a strong presidential candidate, pointing&nbsp;to his successes in Pennsylvania.&nbsp; His name is consistently floated in conversation about the 2028 presidential race, and he was considered as a potential running mate for Kamala Harris in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18734","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\/18734","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=18734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}