{"id":19391,"date":"2026-02-26T16:22:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-gonzales-allegations-will-play-out-in-primary-next-week-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:22:32","slug":"mike-johnson-gonzales-allegations-will-play-out-in-primary-next-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mike-johnson-gonzales-allegations-will-play-out-in-primary-next-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Johnson: Gonzales allegations will \u2018play out\u2019 in primary next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday he believes Rep. Tony Gonzales&rsquo; primary election, now six days away, will be a referendum on the serious sexual harassment allegations plaguing the Texas Republican. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve said to him publicly and privately, he&#8217;s got to address that directly and head on with his constituents,&rdquo; Johnson told reporters&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/25\/congress\/speaker-watching-gonzales-primary-00797668\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday he believes Rep. Tony Gonzales&rsquo; primary election, now six days away, will be a referendum on the serious sexual harassment allegations plaguing the Texas Republican. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve said to him publicly and privately, he&#8217;s got to address that directly and head on with his constituents,&rdquo; Johnson told reporters&#8230;Read More<\/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-19391","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\/19391","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=19391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}