{"id":8861,"date":"2025-05-05T18:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T18:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/georgia-gov-brian-kemp-passes-on-running-for-senate\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T18:32:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T18:32:04","slug":"georgia-gov-brian-kemp-passes-on-running-for-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/georgia-gov-brian-kemp-passes-on-running-for-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp passes on running for Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp will not run for Senate in 2026, according to three people familiar with his decision.<\/p>\n<p>Kemp, a popular Republican, looked like the most formidable potential challenger to Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, the first-term Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Without Kemp in the race, Republicans may face an unpredictable primary that could include divisive candidates like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.<\/p>\n<p>Ossoff is still likely to face a difficult race in a historically conservative state that President Donald Trump carried last November.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp will not run for Senate in 2026, according to three people familiar with his decision. Kemp, a popular Republican, looked like the most formidable potential challenger to Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, the first-term Democrat. Without Kemp in the race, Republicans may face an unpredictable primary that could include divisive candidates like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8861","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\/8861","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=8861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}