{"id":50415,"date":"2022-07-15T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50415"},"modified":"2022-07-15T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T17:30:09","slug":"democrats-cast-around-for-2024-alternatives-to-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50415","title":{"rendered":"Democrats cast around for 2024 alternatives to Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic gloom is deepening as the party looks toward November\u2019s midterms and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The bleak outlook is engendered in part by a grim political environment marked by historically high inflation, elevated gas prices and pandemic fatigue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But the Democratic depression is sharpened by concerns over whether President\u00a0Biden\u00a0is really the man for the moment, given his advancing age \u2014 he turns 80 in November \u2014 and his preference for consensus-building over the frontal political combat many in his party would prefer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yet, for all that, Biden has one sizable factor weighing in his favor. There\u2019s no clear-cut rival who could steal the 2024 mantle away from him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic gloom is deepening as 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-50415","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\/50415","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=50415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50416,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50415\/revisions\/50416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}