{"id":5077,"date":"2017-12-12T20:26:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T04:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=5077"},"modified":"2017-12-12T20:26:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T04:26:39","slug":"trump-congratulates-doug-jones-on-winning-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=5077","title":{"rendered":"Trump congratulates Doug Jones on winning Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blogs-social-wrp\">\n<div class=\"addthis_inline_share_toolbox_ru82\" data-url=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/364610-trump-congratulates-doug-jones-on-winning-senate-race\" data-title=\"Trump congratulates Doug Jones on winning Senate race\" data-description=\"President Trump\u00a0congratulated Democrat Doug Jones\u00a0for winning the Alabama Senate race Tuesday night.\">\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\" data-nid=\"261287\">President Trump<\/a><\/span>\u00a0congratulated Democrat Doug Jones\u00a0for winning the Alabama Senate race Tuesday night.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"column\">\n<article class=\"node-364610 node node-article view-mode-full clearfix\">\n<div class=\"content-with-sidebar-wrp\">\n<div class=\"content-wrp\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to Doug Jones on a hard fought victory. The write-in votes played a very big factor, but a win is a win. The people of Alabama are great, and the Republicans will have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. It never ends!\u201d Trump tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Jones defeated Republican Roy Moore in a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/364547-jones-wins-alabama-senate-seat-for-dems\">close election<\/a>\u00a0for the open seat, becoming the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Alabama since 1992.The result was a major blow for Trump, who backed Moore despite a series of allegations that the former judge had sexual relationships with underage girls when he was in his 30s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0President Trump\u00a0congratulated Democrat Doug Jones\u00a0for winning&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5077","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\/5077","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=5077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5078,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions\/5078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}