{"id":2556,"date":"2024-11-16T21:22:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T21:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/meet-the-new-members-trump-white-house-insider-turned-congressman-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T21:22:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T21:22:17","slug":"meet-the-new-members-trump-white-house-insider-turned-congressman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/meet-the-new-members-trump-white-house-insider-turned-congressman-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the new members: Trump White House insider turned congressman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new member: Rep.-elect Brian Jack (R-Ga.) How they got here: Jack defeated Democratic nominee Maura Keller 66 percent to 34 percent in this deep red district in western Georgia. Inside the campaign: Jack, a longtime aide of President-elect Donald Trump, entered the race with the former president&rsquo;s strong backing and linked his agenda to Trump&rsquo;s throughout the contest&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/15\/congress\/meet-the-new-members-00189849\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new member: Rep.-elect Brian Jack (R-Ga.) How they got here: Jack defeated Democratic nominee Maura Keller 66 percent to 34 percent in this deep red district in western Georgia. Inside the campaign: Jack, a longtime aide of President-elect Donald Trump, entered the race with the former president&rsquo;s strong backing and linked his agenda to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556","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=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}