{"id":4432,"date":"2025-01-04T22:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T22:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mccarthy-says-trump-unifier-in-propelling-johnson-across-speaker-finish-line\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T22:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T22:20:17","slug":"mccarthy-says-trump-unifier-in-propelling-johnson-across-speaker-finish-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mccarthy-says-trump-unifier-in-propelling-johnson-across-speaker-finish-line\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy says Trump &#8216;unifier&#8217; in propelling Johnson across Speaker finish line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) offered his congratulations to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) after being reelected to the leadership role Friday but suggested that President-elect Trump should get the credit. &#8220;Congratulations first to Speaker Johnson. Well done,&#8221; he said Saturday morning in an interview with Fox &amp;amp&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5067106-kevin-mccarthy-mike-johnson-donald-trump-speakership-race\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) offered his congratulations to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) after being reelected to the leadership role Friday but suggested that President-elect Trump should get the credit. &#8220;Congratulations first to Speaker Johnson. Well done,&#8221; he said Saturday morning in an interview with Fox &amp;amp&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4432","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\/4432","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=4432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}