{"id":22294,"date":"2026-05-05T17:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fetterman-being-moderate-democrat-should-not-be-illegal-in-this-party-van-jones\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:22:17","slug":"fetterman-being-moderate-democrat-should-not-be-illegal-in-this-party-van-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fetterman-being-moderate-democrat-should-not-be-illegal-in-this-party-van-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman being &#8216;moderate Democrat&#8217; should not be &#8216;illegal in this party&#8217;: Van Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLN analyst Van Jones on Monday defended Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) against criticism from inside the Democratic Party amid reports that some Republicans are quietly trying to persuade the senator to switch parties or become an independent ahead of the midterm elections. &ldquo;Look, I think he is a moderate Democrat&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5864016-john-fetterman-democrats-criticism-moderate-van-jones\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLN analyst Van Jones on Monday defended Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) against criticism from inside the Democratic Party amid reports that some Republicans are quietly trying to persuade the senator to switch parties or become an independent ahead of the midterm elections. &ldquo;Look, I think he is a moderate Democrat&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22294","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\/22294","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=22294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}