{"id":55180,"date":"2022-12-12T05:53:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T13:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55180"},"modified":"2022-12-12T07:53:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T15:53:49","slug":"behind-the-scenes-hunt-builds-for-mccarthy-speaker-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55180","title":{"rendered":"Behind-the-scenes hunt builds for McCarthy Speaker alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Searches for a Speaker alternative to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) are slowly building momentum as he faces opposition that threatens to sink his bid.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On one side, McCarthy\u2019s fiercest detractors are teasing that there are people interested in being a viable GOP consensus substitute for the current minority leader. On the other, members say preliminary conversations are happening among Republicans and Democrats about a possible contingency candidate if McCarthy cannot win the gavel after multiple ballots in the new GOP-majority House next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searches for a Speaker alternative to&#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-55180","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\/55180","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=55180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55181,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55180\/revisions\/55181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}