{"id":23657,"date":"2026-06-04T19:22:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mamdani-makes-big-political-gamble-in-backing-espaillat-challenger-3\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T19:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:22:29","slug":"mamdani-makes-big-political-gamble-in-backing-espaillat-challenger-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mamdani-makes-big-political-gamble-in-backing-espaillat-challenger-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani makes big political gamble in backing Espaillat challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fallout from the endorsement could continue beyond the 2026 elections as fellow Democrats question trusting the mayor&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/06\/03\/mamdani-makes-big-political-gamble-in-backing-espaillat-challenger-00947758\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fallout from the endorsement could continue beyond the 2026 elections as fellow Democrats question trusting the mayor&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23657","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\/23657","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=23657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}