{"id":19903,"date":"2026-03-11T22:22:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/oklahoma-rep-hern-launches-bid-to-succeed-mullin-in-senate-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T22:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:22:31","slug":"oklahoma-rep-hern-launches-bid-to-succeed-mullin-in-senate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/oklahoma-rep-hern-launches-bid-to-succeed-mullin-in-senate-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Rep. Hern launches bid to succeed Mullin in Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House GOP lawmaker is the first to enter a likely crowded race for the open seat as Mullin awaits confirmation to be the next DHS secretary&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/03\/11\/congress\/oklahoma-hern-senate-bid-mullin-00823533\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House GOP lawmaker is the first to enter a likely crowded race for the open seat as Mullin awaits confirmation to be the next DHS secretary&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19903","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\/19903","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=19903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}