{"id":47085,"date":"2022-04-11T14:25:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T21:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47085"},"modified":"2022-04-11T14:25:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T21:25:30","slug":"democrats-weighed-down-by-biden-scramble-for-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=47085","title":{"rendered":"Democrats weighed down by Biden scramble for message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are scrambling for a message to break through to voters as the days tick down to the midterm election and President Biden\u2019s approval rating remains mired at around 40 percent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They got a wake-up all in last year\u2019s state-level races in New Jersey and Virginia, two bellwether states that signaled a coming Republican tidal wave in the 2010 midterm elections, when then-President Obama was also struggling with a low approval rating.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yet months after losing the Virginia governor\u2019s race, and almost losing New Jersey\u2019s, the political picture for Democrats hasn\u2019t gotten better. Instead, Biden\u2019s numbers have gotten worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are scrambling for a message&#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-47085","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\/47085","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=47085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47086,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47085\/revisions\/47086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}