{"id":34676,"date":"2021-04-30T15:11:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T22:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34676"},"modified":"2021-04-30T15:11:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T22:11:45","slug":"texas-election-poses-test-of-trumps-power-over-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34676","title":{"rendered":"Texas election poses test of Trump&#8217;s power over GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">A special House election in Texas on Saturday is shaping up to be the first major test of former President Trump\u2019s sway among Republicans as the GOP fights to keep a seat in a rapidly diversifying suburban district.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has thrown his weight behind Susan Wright, a conservative activist who is running in a crowded field in Texas\u2019s 6th Congressional District to replace her husband, the late Rep. Ron Wright (R), who died in February after contracting the coronavirus.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special House election in Texas&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34677,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34676\/revisions\/34677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}