{"id":20619,"date":"2026-03-03T10:38:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=20619"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:54:56","slug":"primary-preview-the-next-generation-steps-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/03\/primary-preview-the-next-generation-steps-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary preview: The next generation steps up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>NY Times<\/em>: &#8220;Starting in North Carolina on Tuesday, older House Democrats face a test of their staying power and the appetite of voters to replace them.&#8221; More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/03\/us\/politics\/texas-north-carolina-older-democrats.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Guardian<\/em>: &#8220;Showdown over datacenter politics at heart of North Carolina primary&#8221;. More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/03\/datacenter-politics-north-carolina-primary\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Guardian<\/em>: &#8220;Texas votes in high-stakes primaries in test of appetite for change under Trump&#8221;. More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/03\/texas-primaries-democrats-republicans-trump\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Raw Story<\/em>: &#8220;Montana&#8217;s Rep. Ryan Zinke is hanging up his congressional hat&#8221;. More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/ryan-zinke-2675538763\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primary season is on &#8211; and off to a hot start!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20647,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619\/revisions\/20647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}