{"id":4387,"date":"2025-01-03T19:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T19:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/live-updates-johnson-appears-set-to-fail-on-first-speakership-ballot\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T19:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T19:21:16","slug":"live-updates-johnson-appears-set-to-fail-on-first-speakership-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/live-updates-johnson-appears-set-to-fail-on-first-speakership-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Johnson appears set to fail on first Speakership ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) appears set to fail in the first ballot to keep his gavel in the 119th Congress as the House votes to elect its leader. Johnson has a narrow margin for error in Friday&#8217;s Speakership vote. Assuming all members are present and voting for a candidate&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5064718-live-updates-johnson-speaker-vote-new-congress\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) appears set to fail in the first ballot to keep his gavel in the 119th Congress as the House votes to elect its leader. Johnson has a narrow margin for error in Friday&#8217;s Speakership vote. Assuming all members are present and voting for a candidate&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4387","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\/4387","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=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}