{"id":55084,"date":"2022-12-06T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T01:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55084"},"modified":"2022-12-06T17:00:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T01:00:14","slug":"trump-complicates-gop-position-as-party-of-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55084","title":{"rendered":"Trump complicates GOP position as party of the Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump\u2019s suggestion that the country do away with parts of the Constitution to redo the 2020 election has put Republicans \u2013 many of whom want to wrap themselves in the founding document \u2013 in a complicated position.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Several House Republicans and some in the Senate often champion the GOP as a party that ties itself closely to the law of the land, and a subset of the party even refers to themselves as \u201cconstitutional conservatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But Trump\u2019s latest controversy has put some lawmakers in an awkward spot as they have to square being the party of the Constitution with being the party of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Trump\u2019s suggestion that 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-55084","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\/55084","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=55084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55085,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55084\/revisions\/55085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}