{"id":51766,"date":"2022-08-24T15:42:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T22:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51766"},"modified":"2022-08-24T15:42:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T22:42:14","slug":"special-elections-fuel-democratic-hopes-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51766","title":{"rendered":"Special elections fuel Democratic hopes in the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are coming off a special election win in New York with a fresh burst of energy and a sense that the 2022 midterm elections might not deliver the kind of devastating blow to their numbers in the House that they have long feared.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pat Ryan, a Democratic county executive, narrowly defeated Republican Marc Molinaro on Tuesday in the race for a vacant House seat in New York\u2019s Hudson Valley that was largely seen as bellwether for the political climate heading into the fall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ryan\u2019s win was, in and of itself, a massive boon for House Democrats eager to stave off an electoral thrashing in November. But it was also only the latest in a series of better-than-expected special election performances for the party and the latest sign that the political tides may be shifting in Democrats\u2019 favor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are coming off a special&#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-51766","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\/51766","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=51766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51767,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51766\/revisions\/51767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}