{"id":20341,"date":"2026-03-21T07:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/still-trailing-by-23-votes-nc-senate-leader-asks-for-hand-recount\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T07:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:22:28","slug":"still-trailing-by-23-votes-nc-senate-leader-asks-for-hand-recount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/still-trailing-by-23-votes-nc-senate-leader-asks-for-hand-recount\/","title":{"rendered":"Still trailing by 23 votes, NC Senate leader asks for hand recount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of North Carolina&rsquo;s upper Legislature is requesting another recount after a machine tally showed him losing a contested Republican primary for his state Senate seat by 23 votes.&nbsp; North Carolina Senate Leader Phil Berger (R) asked the state&rsquo;s Board of Elections in a letter Friday to grant a hand recount at a sample&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5794132-berger-page-recount-north-carolina\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of North Carolina&rsquo;s upper Legislature is requesting another recount after a machine tally showed him losing a contested Republican primary for his state Senate seat by 23 votes.&nbsp; North Carolina Senate Leader Phil Berger (R) asked the state&rsquo;s Board of Elections in a letter Friday to grant a hand recount at a sample&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20341","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\/20341","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=20341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}