{"id":55100,"date":"2022-12-07T07:52:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T15:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55100"},"modified":"2022-12-07T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T16:53:00","slug":"gop-smells-blood-with-wounded-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55100","title":{"rendered":"GOP smells blood with wounded Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans who want to move on from Donald Trump are smelling blood after a series of self-destructive errors by the former president that they think is opening the door for GOP rivals to challenge and defeat him in a 2024 presidential primary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The GOP lawmakers say Trump looks increasingly vulnerable in a primary after what they describe as his erratic behavior in recent weeks, which has raised new doubts about his ability to beat President\u00a0Biden\u00a0or any other Democrat in a general election.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Senate Republican Whip\u00a0John Thune\u00a0(S.D.) said Trump\u2019s most recent self-inflicted wound \u2014 in which he spoke about suspending the Constitution \u2014 creates \u201ca huge opening\u201d for other Republicans weighing presidential bids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans who want to move&#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-55100","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\/55100","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=55100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55101,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55100\/revisions\/55101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}