{"id":23058,"date":"2026-05-21T04:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/florida-gop-senator-says-us-wont-need-to-use-military-in-cuba\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T04:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:21:16","slug":"florida-gop-senator-says-us-wont-need-to-use-military-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/florida-gop-senator-says-us-wont-need-to-use-military-in-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida GOP senator says US won&#8217;t need to use military in Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) on Wednesday said the U.S. won&#8217;t need to use military action in Cuba and that he thinks the Cuban people will &#8220;rise up.&#8221; &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re going to have to do it,&#8221;  Scott said when asked about possible military intervention on &#8220;Blue Light News with Blake Burman&#8221; on NewsNation&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5888369-rick-scott-cuba-military-action\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) on Wednesday said the U.S. won&#8217;t need to use military action in Cuba and that he thinks the Cuban people will &#8220;rise up.&#8221; &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re going to have to do it,&#8221; Scott said when asked about possible military intervention on &#8220;Blue Light News with Blake Burman&#8221; on NewsNation&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23058","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\/23058","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=23058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}