{"id":8830,"date":"2025-05-05T03:24:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T03:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/schatz-picks-up-support-for-whip-even-as-some-dems-beg-off-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T03:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T03:24:21","slug":"schatz-picks-up-support-for-whip-even-as-some-dems-beg-off-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/schatz-picks-up-support-for-whip-even-as-some-dems-beg-off-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Schatz picks up support for whip even as some Dems beg off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Brian Schatz inched forward Tuesday in his bid to succeed retiring Sen. Dick Durbin as the No. 2 Senate Democrat &mdash; even as some Democratic senators said it&rsquo;s too early to even talk about a leadership contest more than a year away. Schatz&rsquo;s latest round of supporters includes Sens&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/29\/congress\/schatz-whip-durbin-election-00316611\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Brian Schatz inched forward Tuesday in his bid to succeed retiring Sen. Dick Durbin as the No. 2 Senate Democrat &mdash; even as some Democratic senators said it&rsquo;s too early to even talk about a leadership contest more than a year away. Schatz&rsquo;s latest round of supporters includes Sens&#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-8830","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\/8830","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=8830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}