{"id":4744,"date":"2025-01-11T01:20:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T01:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/desantis-rebuffs-idea-he-could-take-rubios-senate-spot-absolutely-not\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T01:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T01:20:45","slug":"desantis-rebuffs-idea-he-could-take-rubios-senate-spot-absolutely-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/desantis-rebuffs-idea-he-could-take-rubios-senate-spot-absolutely-not\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis rebuffs idea he could take Rubio&#8217;s Senate spot: &#8216;Absolutely not&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) threw cold water on the idea that he could appoint himself to fill Sen. Marco Rubio&rsquo;s (R-Fla.) seat, which he is vacating to become President-elect Trump&#8217;s secretary of state. &ldquo;Absolutely not,&rdquo; DeSantis told reporters on Friday when asked about the scenario&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5079439-desantis-denies-appointment-rubio-seat\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) threw cold water on the idea that he could appoint himself to fill Sen. Marco Rubio&rsquo;s (R-Fla.) seat, which he is vacating to become President-elect Trump&#8217;s secretary of state. &ldquo;Absolutely not,&rdquo; DeSantis told reporters on Friday when asked about the scenario&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4744","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\/4744","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=4744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}