{"id":14532,"date":"2018-03-02T23:52:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T05:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14532"},"modified":"2018-03-02T23:52:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T05:52:59","slug":"the-next-hurdle-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/02\/the-next-hurdle-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Hurdle, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Returning to this <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/12\/the-next-hurdle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thread<\/a> concerning the next special election for the Representative seat of PA-18, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/in-tight-pennsylvania-race-gop-struggles-to-land-a-blow-against-conor-lamb\/2018\/03\/01\/4f7678e2-1d5f-11e8-ae5a-16e60e4605f3_story.html?utm_term=.1d95e86ca784&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;wpmm=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">word has it<\/a> that private polls show the <em><strong>GOP<\/strong><\/em> candidate, State Rep Rick Saccone, with a lead of only single digits over the Democratic challenger, Conor Lamb. Lamb sounds like a conservative Democrat, vowing to not vote for Pelosi as House leader, unwilling to support universal Medicare or a higher minimum wage. In short, he&#8217;s not a progressive, which is a canny move for the Democrats in this conservative district.<\/p>\n<p>Saccone, on the other hand, has clasped Trump in a bear hug, and so this makes this very much a election test of President Trump. In a district he might normally carry by 20 points, if Saccone barely wins, or even loses, it&#8217;ll be a clear flag of just how much President Trump has become a drag on the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;ll be anguish the night of this election. The only question will be who has the groans that night. Impossible to say right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Returning to this thread concerning the next special election for the Representative seat of PA-18, word has it that private polls show the GOP candidate, State Rep Rick Saccone, with a lead of only single digits over the Democratic challenger, Conor Lamb. Lamb sounds like a conservative Democrat, vowing to \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/02\/the-next-hurdle-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14533,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14532\/revisions\/14533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}