{"id":7711,"date":"2025-03-27T09:21:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T09:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-endorses-cornyn-ahead-of-what-could-be-a-thorny-primary-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T09:21:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T09:21:27","slug":"thune-endorses-cornyn-ahead-of-what-could-be-a-thorny-primary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-endorses-cornyn-ahead-of-what-could-be-a-thorny-primary-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thune endorses Cornyn ahead of what could be a thorny primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is gearing up for perhaps the most difficult election battle of his long career, securing an early endorsement from Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Wednesday, his one-time opponent in the fight for the chamber&rsquo;s top job. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been honored to work alongside @JohnCornyn&mdash;one of the most effective and respected conservative leaders in the country,&rdquo; Thune wrote on X hours after Cornyn officially launched his reelection campaign&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/03\/26\/congress\/john-cornyn-senate-primary-00004720\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is gearing up for perhaps the most difficult election battle of his long career, securing an early endorsement from Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Wednesday, his one-time opponent in the fight for the chamber&rsquo;s top job. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been honored to work alongside @JohnCornyn&mdash;one of the most effective and respected conservative [&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-7711","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\/7711","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=7711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}