{"id":864083,"date":"2025-07-21T22:12:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/the-senate-is-losing-one-of-its-few-remaining-moderate-republicans\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:12:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:12:46","slug":"the-senate-is-losing-one-of-its-few-remaining-moderate-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/the-senate-is-losing-one-of-its-few-remaining-moderate-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"The Senate Is Losing One Of Its Few Remaining Moderate Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney announced he would not run for reelection in 2024. On the surface, the electoral impact of Romney\u2019s decision is minimal \u2014 his seat should stay safely in Republican hands. But it\u2019s still notable because it represents the departure of one of the few remaining Republican senators who had a [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/mitt-romney-retire-senate-moderate-republican\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Nathaniel Rakich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney announced he would not run for reelection in 2024. On the surface, the electoral impact of Romney\u2019s decision is minimal \u2014 his seat should stay safely in Republican hands. But it\u2019s still notable because it represents the departure of one of the few remaining Republican senators who had a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":864084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3002,22721,192],"tags":[6823,8477],"class_list":{"0":"post-864083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-losing","8":"category-senate","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-losing","11":"tag-senate"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}