{"id":21945,"date":"2026-04-28T01:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/georgia-governor-candidates-clash-in-debates-as-early-voting-starts\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T01:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:22:09","slug":"georgia-governor-candidates-clash-in-debates-as-early-voting-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/georgia-governor-candidates-clash-in-debates-as-early-voting-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia governor candidates clash in debates as early voting starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Candidates for governor in Georgia faced off Monday in a pair of party debates as early voting kicked off in the Peach State.&nbsp; On the Republican stage at the Atlanta Press Club, billionaire Rick Jackson was put on defense as the crowded field of rivals traded jabs&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5851782-georgia-governor-debate-early-voting-jackson-jones-raffensperger\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candidates for governor in Georgia faced off Monday in a pair of party debates as early voting kicked off in the Peach State.&nbsp; On the Republican stage at the Atlanta Press Club, billionaire Rick Jackson was put on defense as the crowded field of rivals traded jabs&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21945","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\/21945","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=21945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}