{"id":660801,"date":"2026-08-31T18:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=660801"},"modified":"2026-08-31T18:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:54:54","slug":"senate-gop-would-rather-surrender-texas-to-dems-than-to-its-own-voters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=660801","title":{"rendered":"Senate GOP Would Rather Surrender Texas To Dems Than To Its Own Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/John-Kennedy-1200x675.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"John Kennedy doing an interview on Fox.\" \/>Sometimes the GOP establishment is fairly crafty at hiding its disdain for voters. Other times, not so much. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., took a break from making folksy quips to let the mask slip during a Sunday interview about Texas\u2019 Senate race between Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico. While often unpredictable in its [\u2026]<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/John-Kennedy-1200x675.png\" title=\"Senate GOP Would Rather Surrender Texas To Dems Than To Its Own Voters\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the GOP establishment is fairly crafty at hiding its disdain for voters. Other times, not so much. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., took a break from making folksy quips to let the mask slip during a Sunday interview about Texas\u2019 Senate race between Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico. While often unpredictable in its&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=660801\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senate GOP Would Rather Surrender Texas To Dems Than To Its Own Voters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":660794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/660794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}