{"id":54641,"date":"2022-11-18T08:12:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T16:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54641"},"modified":"2022-11-18T08:32:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T16:32:29","slug":"mcconnell-graham-tensions-boil-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54641","title":{"rendered":"McConnell-Graham tensions boil over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s bruising leadership fight in the Senate exposed simmering tension between Senate Minority Leader\u00a0Mitch McConnell\u00a0(R-Ky.) and Sen.\u00a0Lindsey Graham\u00a0(R-S.C.), former President Trump\u2019s closest ally in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Graham, one of the Senate\u2019s highest-profile Republicans, sharply criticized McConnell\u2019s leadership of the Senate GOP conference during a private meeting this week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He then told reporters that he voted to elect Sen. Rick Scott (Fla.) as Senate Republican leader because he thought a change was needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s bruising leadership fight in&#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-54641","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\/54641","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=54641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54642,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54641\/revisions\/54642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}