{"id":44900,"date":"2022-02-16T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=44900"},"modified":"2022-02-16T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T22:36:00","slug":"republicans-spurned-by-trump-in-primaries-still-embrace-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=44900","title":{"rendered":"Republicans spurned by Trump in primaries still embrace him"},"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\">Republicans who missed out on Donald Trump\u2019s coveted endorsements are grasping for ways to tie themselves to the former president and his political movement, betting his\u00a0\u00a0message will prove more powerful in contentious primary races than the man himself.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy is playing out in GOP primaries across the country, including in South Carolina, where Trump last week endorsed Republican Katie Arrington\u2019s challenge to Rep.\u00a0Nancy Mace\u00a0(R-S.C.), a once-loyal ally who drew the former president\u2019s ire by criticizing him in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Mace, a first-term congresswoman who worked on Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign, responded\u00a0by filming a video of herself\u00a0praising the former president and touting her support for him outside of Trump Tower in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Mace\u2019s video underscores the conundrum that several Republicans are facing: how to use Trump\u2019s message to appeal to Trump\u2019s voters, without the backing of Trump himself.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans who missed out on Donald&#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-44900","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\/44900","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=44900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44901,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44900\/revisions\/44901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}