{"id":55032,"date":"2022-12-04T12:42:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T20:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55032"},"modified":"2022-12-05T12:42:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T20:42:40","slug":"senate-democrats-seek-51st-vote-and-some-breathing-room-in-georgia-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55032","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats seek 51st vote \u2014 and some breathing room \u2014 in Georgia runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A win by Sen.\u00a0Raphael Warnock\u00a0(D-Ga.) in next week\u2019s Senate runoff would hand Democrats a crucial 51st vote in the upper chamber, along with something else they\u2019ve been seeking: breathing room.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some room to exhale could do wonders for a party that has been forced to navigate the tricky waters of a 50-50 Senate. No longer could a single Democratic member \u2014 including Sens.\u00a0Joe Manchin\u00a0(W.Va.) and\u00a0Kyrsten Sinema\u00a0(Ariz.) \u2014 derail a contentious nominee or long-sought legislative item, handing Senate Majority Leader\u00a0Charles Schumer\u00a0(N.Y.) a boost in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A win by Sen.\u00a0Raphael Warnock\u00a0(D-Ga.) 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-55032","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\/55032","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=55032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55033,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55032\/revisions\/55033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}