{"id":52727,"date":"2022-09-23T08:29:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T15:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52727"},"modified":"2022-09-23T15:29:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T22:29:43","slug":"mccarthy-keeps-right-flank-tight-as-he-closes-in-on-speakership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52727","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy keeps right flank tight as he closes in on Speakership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is giving the confrontational right flank of the GOP conference a seat at the table as he aims to shore up their support for Speaker if Republicans take the chamber next year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy is eyeing having to manage a conference next year that is expected to tilt further to the right with a higher proportion of allies loyal to former President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And he\u2019s starting now by including controversial figures and members of the House Freedom Caucus in high-profile events in an effort to seemingly win them over \u2014 unlike some of his GOP predecessors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)&#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-52727","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\/52727","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=52727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52728,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52727\/revisions\/52728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}