{"id":49622,"date":"2022-06-21T10:13:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T17:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49622"},"modified":"2022-06-21T10:13:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T17:13:40","slug":"gop-senators-downplay-jan-6-panels-importance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=49622","title":{"rendered":"GOP senators downplay Jan. 6 panel\u2019s importance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans are downplaying the impact of the House Jan. 6 hearings, which have shed new light on former President Trump\u2019s actions to incite a crowd to storm the Capitol in an effort to stop the certification of Joe Biden\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Senate Republicans generally feel confident the damaging revelations won\u2019t have much impact on the midterm elections, citing economic factors such as inflation as far more significant in moving voters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But Republican senators are less sure what testimony before the committee, which has received heavy media coverage, means for Trump\u2019s viability as a 2024 presidential candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans are downplaying the impact&#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-49622","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\/49622","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=49622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49623,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49622\/revisions\/49623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}