{"id":53506,"date":"2022-10-15T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53506"},"modified":"2022-10-15T20:40:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T03:40:29","slug":"republicans-ride-crime-wave-worries-in-midterms-home-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53506","title":{"rendered":"Republicans ride crime wave worries in midterms home stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the closing weeks of the midterm election season, Republicans up and down the ballot are working to make worries about a crime wave translate to a red wave.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the GOP finds a boon in focusing on public safety and tying lawlessness to Democrats\u2019 policies, Democrats are forced into playing defense.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrime is skyrocketing in Illinois. But Democrat Eric Sorensen stands with the anti-police movement,\u201d\u00a0charged an\u00a0ad\u00a0from\u00a0Republican Esther Joy King in Illinois\u2019s 17th Congressional District. Sorensen, the Democratic nominee,\u00a0wrote\u00a0an op-ed this week titled: \u201cWe need to properly fund the police.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the closing weeks of 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-53506","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\/53506","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=53506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53507,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53506\/revisions\/53507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}