{"id":8257,"date":"2025-04-15T04:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T04:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/randy-villegas-is-mounting-a-challenge-to-gop-rep-david-valadao-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T04:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T04:20:34","slug":"randy-villegas-is-mounting-a-challenge-to-gop-rep-david-valadao-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/randy-villegas-is-mounting-a-challenge-to-gop-rep-david-valadao-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Randy Villegas is mounting a challenge to GOP Rep. David Valadao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Democrat aiming to unseat Republican Rep. David Valadao isn&rsquo;t trying to do it from the center. Randy Villegas, a Visalia, California, school board trustee, is hoping economic populism will resonate in a swing district that continues to be a top Democratic target. He also plans to tie Valadao to President Donald Trump&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/11\/congress\/randy-villegas-david-valadao-00286801\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Democrat aiming to unseat Republican Rep. David Valadao isn&rsquo;t trying to do it from the center. Randy Villegas, a Visalia, California, school board trustee, is hoping economic populism will resonate in a swing district that continues to be a top Democratic target. He also plans to tie Valadao to President Donald Trump&#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-8257","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\/8257","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=8257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}