{"id":6700,"date":"2025-02-28T02:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/walz-announcement-clears-way-for-angie-craig-in-minnesota-senate-race-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T02:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:20:40","slug":"walz-announcement-clears-way-for-angie-craig-in-minnesota-senate-race-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/walz-announcement-clears-way-for-angie-craig-in-minnesota-senate-race-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Walz announcement clears way for Angie Craig in Minnesota Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Tim Walz&rsquo;s announcement Wednesday that he would not run for an open Minnesota Senate seat has thawed a frozen field. Now, all eyes turn toward Democratic Rep. Angie Craig. A handful of ambitious Democrats already said they were considering runs after Sen. Tina Smith revealed her surprise retirement earlier this month&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/02\/27\/congress\/eyes-on-angie-craig-for-minnesota-senate-race-00206492\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Tim Walz&rsquo;s announcement Wednesday that he would not run for an open Minnesota Senate seat has thawed a frozen field. Now, all eyes turn toward Democratic Rep. Angie Craig. A handful of ambitious Democrats already said they were considering runs after Sen. Tina Smith revealed her surprise retirement earlier this month&#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-6700","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\/6700","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=6700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}