{"id":35198,"date":"2021-05-14T11:41:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T18:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35198"},"modified":"2021-05-14T11:41:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T18:41:33","slug":"stefanik-wins-race-to-replace-cheney-after-backing-from-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35198","title":{"rendered":"Stefanik wins race to replace Cheney after backing from Trump"},"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\">House Republicans on Friday elevated Rep.\u00a0Elise Stefanik\u00a0(R-N.Y.) to replace Rep.\u00a0Liz Cheney\u00a0(R-Wyo.) as the party\u2019s conference chair, capping a tumultuous three-week stretch that exposed the deep divisions in conference beholden to former President\u00a0Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Stefanik, who was backed by Trump and top House GOP leaders, easily defeated Rep.\u00a0Chip Roy\u00a0(R-Texas), a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus who launched a last-minute challenge over concerns Stefanik\u2019s voting record is too liberal.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans on Friday elevated Rep.\u00a0Elise&#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-35198","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\/35198","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=35198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35199,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35198\/revisions\/35199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}