{"id":31150,"date":"2026-08-30T11:20:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T15:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=31150"},"modified":"2026-08-30T11:20:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T15:20:28","slug":"campaign-2026-silly-season-meets-actual-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/30\/campaign-2026-silly-season-meets-actual-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"<span style=\"color:red; font-weight:900;\">CAMPAIGN 2026:<\/span> Silly Season Meets Actual Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fun has already begun\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Guardian: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/aug\/30\/data-center-politics-democrats-republicans\">The datacenter fight could permanently transform US politics. Which party will seize advantage?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alternet: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/the-dems-have-a-secret-weapon-for-annihilating-trumpism-if-they-d-use-it\/\">It&#8217;s a wedge issue! Democrats are weaponizing an everyday word to quietly reshape the midterms.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/30\/meet-ex-republicans-running-democrats-2026-midterms\/\">Meet the ex-Republicans running as Democrats in the midterms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mediaite: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/gop-senator-claims-he-had-nothing-to-do-with-his-own-ad-blaming-dem-opponent-and-dangerous-illegals-for-fatal-car-wreck\/\">OH-Sen \u2014 Senator Husted Claims He Had \u2018Nothing To Do\u2019 With His Own Ad Blaming Dem Opponent and \u2018Dangerous Illegals\u2019 for Fatal Car Wreck<\/a> [Yeah, Riiiiight\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Raw: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/trump-gop-senate-2677795612\/\">&#8216;Farmageddon&#8217; ignites midterm &#8216;prairie fire&#8217; as GOP senators complain &#8216;Trump is us&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Salon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2026\/08\/30\/nine-years-after-charlottesville-gop-pushes-blood-and-soil\/\">Nine years after Charlottesville, GOP pushes \u201cblood and soil\u201d \u2014 and JD Vance is its banner carrier<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fun has already begun\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31150","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\/31150","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=31150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}