{"id":48700,"date":"2022-05-25T18:15:55","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T01:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48700"},"modified":"2022-05-25T18:15:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T01:15:55","slug":"progressives-voice-anger-at-democratic-leaders-over-close-texas-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48700","title":{"rendered":"Progressives voice anger at Democratic leaders over close Texas runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Progressives are voicing anger at the Democratic establishment following the closely fought runoff between\u00a0Jessica Cisneros\u00a0and incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), leading to what could be deep divisions in the district ahead of the general election.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the results trickled in Wednesday and the race remained too close to call, progressives voiced their discontent with the House Democratic establishment for potentially pulling Cuellar over the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the day of a mass shooting and weeks after news of Roe, Democratic Party leadership rallied for a pro-NRA, anti-choice incumbent under investigation in a close primary. Robocalls, fundraisers, all of it,\u201d progressive Rep.\u00a0Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u00a0(D-N.Y.) said in a tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressives are voicing anger at the&#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-48700","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\/48700","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=48700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48701,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48700\/revisions\/48701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}