{"id":2348,"date":"2024-11-12T23:20:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T23:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/house-freedom-caucus-leadership-search-narrows-to-2-candidates\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T23:20:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T23:20:24","slug":"house-freedom-caucus-leadership-search-narrows-to-2-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-freedom-caucus-leadership-search-narrows-to-2-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"House Freedom Caucus leadership search narrows to 2 candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The powerful House Freedom Caucus seems to have narrowed the search for its next leader to two main candidates: Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) or Andy Harris (R-Md.), according to two members of the group and two people familiar with the discussions. The ultra-conservative group&rsquo;s internal wrangling was necessary after current Chair Bob Good (R-Va.) told members during a closed-door meeting on Monday that his resignation would be official at the end of this week&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/09\/12\/congress\/freedom-caucus-leader-jockeying-election-00178885\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The powerful House Freedom Caucus seems to have narrowed the search for its next leader to two main candidates: Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) or Andy Harris (R-Md.), according to two members of the group and two people familiar with the discussions. The ultra-conservative group&rsquo;s internal wrangling was necessary after current Chair Bob Good (R-Va.) told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348","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=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}