{"id":651986,"date":"2025-02-16T13:04:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T18:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=651986"},"modified":"2025-02-16T13:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T18:04:55","slug":"democrats-headaches-multiply-in-battle-for-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=651986","title":{"rendered":"Democrats\u2019 headaches multiply in battle for Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith\u2019s (D) decision to not run for reelection in 2026 is adding another headache for Democrats trying to win back control of the Senate in two years.\u00a0Smith became the second Senate Democrat to announce their retirement in the past few weeks after Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) also decided against seeking another term last month.<\/p>\n

Michigan is more solidly a battleground state than the Democratic-leaning Minnesota, which hasn\u2019t elected a Republican senator in more than two decades.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5146614-minnesota-senator-retirement-battleground\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith\u2019s (D) decision to not run for reelection in 2026 is adding another headache for Democrats trying to win back control of the Senate in two years.\u00a0Smith became the second Senate Democrat to announce their retirement in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651987,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651986\/revisions\/651987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}