{"id":6403,"date":"2025-02-21T05:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T05:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/who-is-considering-a-run-for-mcconnells-senate-seat-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T05:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T05:20:38","slug":"who-is-considering-a-run-for-mcconnells-senate-seat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/who-is-considering-a-run-for-mcconnells-senate-seat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is considering a run for McConnell&#8217;s Senate seat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shadow primary to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell was already in full swing. Now it&rsquo;s coming out into the open. The former Senate GOP leader&#8217;s departure was not unexpected &mdash; he spent the opening days of his final term in the Senate shooting down President Donald Trump&rsquo;s Cabinet picks&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/20\/congress\/who-wants-to-replace-mcconnell-00205241\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shadow primary to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell was already in full swing. Now it&rsquo;s coming out into the open. The former Senate GOP leader&#8217;s departure was not unexpected &mdash; he spent the opening days of his final term in the Senate shooting down President Donald Trump&rsquo;s Cabinet picks&#8230;Read More<\/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-6403","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\/6403","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=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}