{"id":2804,"date":"2024-11-22T19:23:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T19:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/after-gaetz-withdraws-vance-turns-to-hegseth-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-22T19:23:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T19:23:49","slug":"after-gaetz-withdraws-vance-turns-to-hegseth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/after-gaetz-withdraws-vance-turns-to-hegseth-2\/","title":{"rendered":"After Gaetz withdraws, Vance turns to Hegseth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President-elect JD Vance on Thursday held back-to-back meetings to sell Republican senators on Pete Hegseth&rsquo;s nomination for Defense secretary. But that job as Donald Trump&rsquo;s congressional whisperer just became more complicated, as Matt Gaetz withdrew from attorney general consideration &mdash; and new details came out about Hegseth&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/21\/congress\/vances-role-00191095\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President-elect JD Vance on Thursday held back-to-back meetings to sell Republican senators on Pete Hegseth&rsquo;s nomination for Defense secretary. But that job as Donald Trump&rsquo;s congressional whisperer just became more complicated, as Matt Gaetz withdrew from attorney general consideration &mdash; and new details came out about Hegseth&#8230;Read More<\/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-2804","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\/2804","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=2804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}