{"id":55742,"date":"2023-01-06T06:28:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T14:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55742"},"modified":"2023-01-06T10:28:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:28:26","slug":"trumps-clout-takes-hit-from-speakers-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55742","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s clout takes hit from Speaker\u2019s fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u2019s political clout has taken another serious hit, as Republicans opposed to Rep.\u00a0Kevin McCarthy\u2019s\u00a0Speakership bid ignore his pleas to back the California Republican.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just the latest sign that Trump\u2019s once-iron grip on his party is weakening, a reality that raises questions about his 2024 presidential bid while giving rivals more confidence they can defeat him in a primary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Conservative Rep.\u00a0Lauren Boebert\u00a0(R-Colo.) said on the House floor on Wednesday that Trump needed to tell McCarthy to withdraw from the contest, while Rep.\u00a0Matt Gaetz\u00a0(R-Fla.) said it was \u201csad\u201d that the former president supported McCarthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u2019s political clout has taken&#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-55742","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\/55742","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=55742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55743,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55742\/revisions\/55743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}