{"id":4778,"date":"2025-01-11T21:21:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T21:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/meet-the-new-members-a-kamala-harris-protegee-rises-2\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T21:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T21:21:02","slug":"meet-the-new-members-a-kamala-harris-protegee-rises-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/meet-the-new-members-a-kamala-harris-protegee-rises-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the new members: A Kamala Harris protegee rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new member: Rep. Lateefah Simon (D-Calif.) How they got here: Simon bested a fellow Democrat, Jennifer Tran, in the general election for this solidly Democratic seat based in Oakland. She won 65 percent to 35 percent. Inside the campaign: Simon was a heavy favorite in this contest after jumping into the race to replace long-time Bay Area Rep&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/01\/10\/congress\/meet-the-new-members-lateefah-simon-00197584\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new member: Rep. Lateefah Simon (D-Calif.) How they got here: Simon bested a fellow Democrat, Jennifer Tran, in the general election for this solidly Democratic seat based in Oakland. She won 65 percent to 35 percent. Inside the campaign: Simon was a heavy favorite in this contest after jumping into the race to replace [&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-4778","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\/4778","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=4778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}