{"id":179178,"date":"2018-04-24T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/24\/special-election-tonight\/"},"modified":"2018-04-24T22:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T03:57:00","slug":"special-election-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/24\/special-election-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Election Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/arizona-voters-to-pick-new-member-of-congress-to-replace-trent-franks\/2018\/04\/24\/08fd2e84-4734-11e8-827e-190efaf1f1ee_story.html\">won the race for Arizona&#8217;s 8<sup>th<\/sup> Congressional District<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Republicans won a closely watched special election in Arizona Tuesday, turning back a spirited challenge from a first-time Democratic candidate to keep a U.S. House seat in GOP hands.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The Associated Press called the race on the basis of the Republican\u2019s lead in early voting. Debbie Lesko, a former state lawmaker, had the edge over Hiral Tipirneni, a Democratic physician making her first run for office, by 52.9 percent to 47.1 percent. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not an unreasonable showing by the Democrat, Trump won this district by 21%, and the Republicans significantly outspent the Democrats, but you don&#8217;t get the brass ring for a close 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans won the race for Arizona&#8217;s 8th Congressional District: Republicans won a closely watched special election in Arizona Tuesday, turning back a spirited challenge from a first-time Democratic candidate to keep a U.S. House seat in GOP hands. The Associated Press called the race on the basis of the Republican\u2019s lead in early voting. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,375],"class_list":["post-179178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}