{"id":23316,"date":"2026-05-27T07:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-backed-candidate-wins-kentucky-primary-to-replace-barr-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:22:15","slug":"trump-backed-candidate-wins-kentucky-primary-to-replace-barr-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-backed-candidate-wins-kentucky-primary-to-replace-barr-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-backed candidate wins Kentucky primary to replace Barr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Alvarado, a physician and former state senator, will be the Republican nominee in Kentucky&rsquo;s 6th District&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/05\/19\/congress\/alvarado-wins-kentucky-house-primary-00929047\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Alvarado, a physician and former state senator, will be the Republican nominee in Kentucky&rsquo;s 6th District&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23316","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\/23316","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=23316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}