{"id":370,"date":"2024-11-11T07:44:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T07:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/justice-flips-manchins-west-virginia-senate-seat\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T07:44:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T07:44:56","slug":"justice-flips-manchins-west-virginia-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/justice-flips-manchins-west-virginia-senate-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice flips Manchin\u2019s West Virginia Senate seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Gov. Jim Justice (R) rolled to an easy victory to pick up retiring Sen. Joe Manchin\u2019s (I) seat in West Virginia, marking the first time Republicans have won the seat since the 1950s. He defeated little-known Democratic challenger Glenn Elliott, the mayor of Wheeling. Democratic leaders in Washington privately conceded months ago that Republicans&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/4973057-justice-flips-manchins-west-virginia-senate-seat\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Gov. Jim Justice (R) rolled to an easy victory to pick up retiring Sen. Joe Manchin\u2019s (I) seat in West Virginia, marking the first time Republicans have won the seat since the 1950s. He defeated little-known Democratic challenger Glenn Elliott, the mayor of Wheeling. Democratic leaders in Washington privately conceded months ago that Republicans&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","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\/370","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=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}