{"id":2851,"date":"2024-11-23T21:20:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T21:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/meet-the-new-members-capitol-hills-new-progressive-ob-gyn-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-23T21:20:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T21:20:43","slug":"meet-the-new-members-capitol-hills-new-progressive-ob-gyn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/meet-the-new-members-capitol-hills-new-progressive-ob-gyn-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the new members: Capitol Hill\u2019s new progressive OB-GYN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new member: Rep.-elect Kelly Morrison (D-Minn.) How they got here: Morrison defeated her Republican opponent, Tad Jude, by 17 points in a suburban district that used to be solidly GOP but has favored Democrats in recent years. She&rsquo;ll be replacing Rep. Dean Phillips, who is retiring after serving two terms in the House and mounting a primary challenge to Joe Biden last year&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/22\/congress\/meet-the-new-members-kelly-morrison-minnesota-00191311\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new member: Rep.-elect Kelly Morrison (D-Minn.) How they got here: Morrison defeated her Republican opponent, Tad Jude, by 17 points in a suburban district that used to be solidly GOP but has favored Democrats in recent years. She&rsquo;ll be replacing Rep. Dean Phillips, who is retiring after serving two terms in the House and [&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-2851","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\/2851","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=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}