{"id":41176,"date":"2021-10-14T13:35:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T20:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41176"},"modified":"2021-10-14T13:35:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T20:35:50","slug":"democrats-fret-as-longshot-candidates-pull-money-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41176","title":{"rendered":"Democrats fret as longshot candidates pull money, attention"},"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\">Longshot challengers to Democrats\u2019 most reviled Republican foes are starting to be seen as threats by some in their own party who fear they are distracting from midterm efforts to protect the majority.<\/p>\n<p>Just over a year out from what will be a referendum on President Biden\u2019s first two years in office, Democratic strategists are expressing frustration that a handful of candidates looking to oust some of the GOP\u2019s most high-profile incumbents \u2013 Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) among them \u2013 in deep red areas are using valuable resources that could otherwise be used to strengthen the party\u2019s hand in more competitive races.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longshot challengers to Democrats\u2019 most reviled&#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-41176","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\/41176","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=41176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41177,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41176\/revisions\/41177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}