{"id":8432,"date":"2025-04-21T16:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrat-challenging-joni-ernst-i-want-to-tear-down-party-build-it-back-up\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:20:17","slug":"democrat-challenging-joni-ernst-i-want-to-tear-down-party-build-it-back-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrat-challenging-joni-ernst-i-want-to-tear-down-party-build-it-back-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat challenging Joni Ernst: I want to &#8216;tear down&#8217; party, &#8216;build it back up&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Sage, a Democratic candidate for Iowa&#8217;s 2026 Senate election, has stated his intention to &#8220;tear the Democratic Party down and build it back up from the studs&#8221; and focus on helping people who are struggling&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5258488-nathan-sage-dismantle-democratic\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Sage, a Democratic candidate for Iowa&#8217;s 2026 Senate election, has stated his intention to &#8220;tear the Democratic Party down and build it back up from the studs&#8221; and focus on helping people who are struggling&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8432","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=8432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}