{"id":2415,"date":"2024-11-13T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T12:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/freedom-caucus-backs-off-plan-to-push-a-challenger-to-johnson-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T12:23:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T12:23:08","slug":"freedom-caucus-backs-off-plan-to-push-a-challenger-to-johnson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/freedom-caucus-backs-off-plan-to-push-a-challenger-to-johnson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Caucus backs off plan to push a challenger to Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House conservatives are planning to force an internal vote on Mike Johnson&rsquo;s speakership during Wednesday&rsquo;s leadership election instead of throwing in an alternate candidate, two people familiar with the discussions told Blue Light News. Johnson&rsquo;s critics in the House Freedom Caucus have been deliberating for days over how to push back against proposed internal rules changes and send a message to the Louisiana Republican&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/12\/congress\/freedom-caucus-backs-off-challenger-plan-00189231\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House conservatives are planning to force an internal vote on Mike Johnson&rsquo;s speakership during Wednesday&rsquo;s leadership election instead of throwing in an alternate candidate, two people familiar with the discussions told Blue Light News. Johnson&rsquo;s critics in the House Freedom Caucus have been deliberating for days over how to push back against proposed internal rules [&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-2415","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\/2415","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=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}