{"id":50099,"date":"2022-07-06T14:14:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T21:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50099"},"modified":"2022-07-06T09:15:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T16:15:34","slug":"swipe-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50099","title":{"rendered":"Swipe right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a hip basement bar in Washington\u2019s Shaw neighborhood on a recent Thursday night, singles from conservative nonprofits, GOP Capitol Hill offices and right-leaning media groups sipped craft cocktails from an open bar under the glow of neon lights, part of an effort\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28278915.6113\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvdGVjaG5vbG9neS8zNTQ0NDAyLXN3aXBlLXJpZ2h0LXdpbmctZm9ybWVyLXRydW1wLWFpZGVzLXNlZWstc2luZ2xlcy1mb3ItdGhpZWwtYmFja2VkLWRhdGluZy1hcHAvP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB5444ea80\/email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28278915.6113\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvdGVjaG5vbG9neS8zNTQ0NDAyLXN3aXBlLXJpZ2h0LXdpbmctZm9ybWVyLXRydW1wLWFpZGVzLXNlZWstc2luZ2xlcy1mb3ItdGhpZWwtYmFja2VkLWRhdGluZy1hcHAvP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB5444ea80\/email&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1657149246378000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0OtoFVn36y7_DSqX7iExc_\">to build buzz and a user base<\/a>\u00a0for a new dating app created by former Trump White House staffers and backed by tech billionaire Peter Thiel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28278915.6113\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudm94LmNvbS90aGUtZ29vZHMvMjAxOC8xMi8yNi8xODE1MDMyMi9yaWdodGVyLWRvbmFsZC1kYXRlcnMtcGF0cmlvLWNvbnNlcnZhdGl2ZS1kYXRpbmctYXBwcz9lbWFpbD1iMGJlZmIyZGFmY2UzYTg3ZTdmMTM2YmIwNjU0ZGYwNTNmODQ1M2FjJmVtYWlsYT0xYTI3NTdlMzU4MDAxYmEyNjMxOGIwMmI4NmY0MTMxMSZlbWFpbGI9YzFiNTg5MWVjODJkZTA5ZGJjZjk3M2FkNDk1NDYwMzJlY2U3OTUwZmIzYTdlN2NhODZkZDljZmNjYWJlNjliOA\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aBb182e462\/email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28278915.6113\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudm94LmNvbS90aGUtZ29vZHMvMjAxOC8xMi8yNi8xODE1MDMyMi9yaWdodGVyLWRvbmFsZC1kYXRlcnMtcGF0cmlvLWNvbnNlcnZhdGl2ZS1kYXRpbmctYXBwcz9lbWFpbD1iMGJlZmIyZGFmY2UzYTg3ZTdmMTM2YmIwNjU0ZGYwNTNmODQ1M2FjJmVtYWlsYT0xYTI3NTdlMzU4MDAxYmEyNjMxOGIwMmI4NmY0MTMxMSZlbWFpbGI9YzFiNTg5MWVjODJkZTA5ZGJjZjk3M2FkNDk1NDYwMzJlY2U3OTUwZmIzYTdlN2NhODZkZDljZmNjYWJlNjliOA\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aBb182e462\/email&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1657149246378000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3fkAyU7IrZulU2BdKxV0wU\">long list of failed or now-defunct<\/a>\u00a0dating apps aimed at conservatives that have popped up in recent years, including Righter, Donald Dater, TrumpSingles, Patrio and Conservatives Only.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Co-founders\u00a0John McEntee,\u00a0who was a personal aide to former President Trump and then director of the White House presidential personnel office,\u00a0and Daniel Huff, a Trump appointee in the Department of Housing and Urban Development and also a former White House adviser,\u00a0say The Right Stuff will be different.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re doing has really not been done before. No one has built a high quality, properly funded app with a dedicated team,\u201d Huff said in an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a hip basement bar in&#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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50099","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=50099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50100,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50099\/revisions\/50100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}