{"id":41854,"date":"2021-11-03T15:31:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T22:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41854"},"modified":"2021-11-03T15:31:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T22:31:21","slug":"democrats-fear-virginia-is-precursor-to-house-drubbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41854","title":{"rendered":"Democrats fear Virginia is precursor to House drubbing"},"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\">Democrat\u00a0Terry McAuliffe\u2019s drubbing in Tuesday\u2019s gubernatorial contest in Virginia has sparked new fears for House Democrats that they could lose their majority in a blowout in the 2022 midterms.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers say party leaders need to rethink their strategy heading into those elections to prevent a repeat of the devastating defeat majority Democrats took more than a decade ago in the 2010 midterms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a wakeup call \u2014\u00a0and we&#8217;d better learn from it,\u201d said Rep.\u00a0Cheri Bustos\u00a0(Ill.), former head of the Democrats\u2019 campaign arm. \u201cWe&#8217;ve got exactly a year to go.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat\u00a0Terry McAuliffe\u2019s drubbing in Tuesday\u2019s gubernatorial&#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-41854","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\/41854","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=41854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41855,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41854\/revisions\/41855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}