{"id":42874,"date":"2021-12-04T10:36:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T18:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42874"},"modified":"2021-12-06T10:37:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T18:37:22","slug":"gop-grapples-with-chaotic-senate-primary-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=42874","title":{"rendered":"GOP grapples with chaotic Senate primary in Pennsylvania"},"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 frontrunner suspending his campaign over domestic abuse allegations and a lost custody battle. An out-of-state reality television host launching a bid of his own. A hedge fund CEO possibly dropping tens of millions of dollars on a campaign to be launched in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate GOP primary in Pennsylvania has become a free-for-all after apparent frontrunner\u00a0Sean Parnell\u2019s decision to bow out late last month after losing custody of his children amid the allegations brought by his estranged wife. Now, the party is again contending with an unsettled field as big personalities \u2013 with big money behind them \u2013 make late entries into arguably the country\u2019s most significant Senate race.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A frontrunner suspending his campaign over&#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":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42874","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=42874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42875,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42874\/revisions\/42875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}