{"id":30532,"date":"2026-08-23T12:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=30532"},"modified":"2026-08-23T12:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:48:27","slug":"campaign-2026-we-have-a-wedge-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/23\/campaign-2026-we-have-a-wedge-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"<span style=\"color:red; font-weight:900;\">CAMPAIGN 2026:<\/span> We Have a Wedge Issue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats can wield it like a bludgeon \u2014 if they&#8217;re smart\u2026<\/p>\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/23\/us\/politics\/data-centers-midterm-elections.html\">The Data Center Backlash Bursts Into the Midterms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2026\/08\/23\/most-gop-politicians-now-talk-negatively-about-data-centers-data-shows\/\">Late to the party? See the six-month trend of Republican politicians turning against data centers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HuffPo: SC-Sen \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/trump-graham-gop-control_n_6a870a62e4b0e9f1dd27ad8c\">Trump Puts His Rule-By-Fear Control Of Republican Party On The Line In South Carolina<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBC: SC-Sen \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/tim-scott-darline-graham-easy-choice-debate-flub-rcna593983\">Tim Scott calls support for Darline Graham an \u2018easy choice\u2019 despite her debate flub<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mediaite: AK-Sen \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/dan-sullivan-endorses-dan-sullivan-to-defeat-dan-sullivan-in-all-time-bonkers-senate-race\/\">Dan Sullivan Endorses Dan Sullivan to Defeat Dan Sullivan in All-Time Bonkers Senate Race. Yes, You Read That Right\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meidas: <a href=\"https:\/\/meidasnews.com\/news\/wnba-player-dunks-on-paxton-endorses-talarico\">WNBA Player Dunks on Paxton, Endorses Talarico<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NPR: CA-Gov \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/08\/23\/nx-s1-5941143\/california-governor-xavier-becerra-health-insurance\">Becerra faces down the state&#8217;s health insurance problem<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats can wield it like a bludgeon \u2014 if they&#8217;re smart\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30532","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=30532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}