{"id":51027,"date":"2022-08-03T10:20:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51027"},"modified":"2022-08-03T11:20:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T18:20:45","slug":"meijer-loss-sparks-new-criticism-of-democratic-meddling-in-gop-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51027","title":{"rendered":"Meijer loss sparks new criticism of Democratic meddling in GOP primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Peter Meijer\u2019s (R-Mich.) narrow loss in a western Michigan Republican primary is intensifying scrutiny on the Democratic House campaign arm\u2019s efforts to elevate the pro-Trump election conspiracy theorist who captured the GOP nomination on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meijer became the latest casualty of former President Donald Trump\u2019s pledge to exact revenge on Republicans who voted last year to impeach him for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, falling in the primary to John Gibbs, a former Housing and Urban Development official who had Trump\u2019s endorsement in the race for Michigan\u2019s 3rd District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Peter Meijer\u2019s (R-Mich.) narrow loss&#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-51027","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\/51027","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=51027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51028,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51027\/revisions\/51028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}