{"id":8007,"date":"2025-04-05T16:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T16:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pappas-launches-bid-for-shaheens-senate-seat-in-new-hampshire-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T16:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T16:21:14","slug":"pappas-launches-bid-for-shaheens-senate-seat-in-new-hampshire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pappas-launches-bid-for-shaheens-senate-seat-in-new-hampshire-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pappas launches bid for Shaheen&#8217;s Senate seat in New Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas has launched his campaign to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire as the party looks to defend her seat in the blue-leaning state. Pappas, in a two-minute launch video, said he would fight to &ldquo;get our country back on track&rdquo; while &ldquo;working for everyone.&rdquo; He also took shots at Republicans&rsquo; proposal to cut Medicaid funding and at billionaire presidential adviser Elon Musk&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/03\/congress\/pappas-launches-bid-for-shaheens-seat-00268142\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas has launched his campaign to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire as the party looks to defend her seat in the blue-leaning state. Pappas, in a two-minute launch video, said he would fight to &ldquo;get our country back on track&rdquo; while &ldquo;working for everyone.&rdquo; He also took shots [&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-8007","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\/8007","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=8007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}