{"id":577776,"date":"2010-05-25T07:41:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T11:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/05\/25\/simmons-will-step-aside-for-mcmahon\/"},"modified":"2010-05-25T07:41:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T11:41:57","slug":"simmons-will-step-aside-for-mcmahon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/577776","title":{"rendered":"Simmons Will Step Aside for McMahon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~3\/25E83diFF74\/simmons_will_step_aside_for_mcmahon.html\" >Simmons Will Step Aside for McMahon             <\/a><br \/>Rob Simmons (R) will hold a press conference this morning to announce he&#8217;s leaving the U.S. Senate race in Connecticut, the <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.courant.com\/capitol_watch\/2010\/05\/rob-simmons-will-drop-out-of-u.html\">Hartford Courant<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>  He lost the Republican convention&#8217;s endorsement last weekend to former World Wrestling CEO Linda McMahon (R).<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Throughout the increasingly bitter campaign between Simmons and McMahon, Simmons had said he would abide by the convention&#8217;s choice and not force a primary. However on Friday he announced a change of heart and said he would primary McMahon for the party&#8217;s nomination after all.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~4\/25E83diFF74\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>             <\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~3\/AdLdEgHjjy4\/murray_holds_small_lead_over_rossi.html\" >Murray Holds Small Lead over Rossi             <\/a><br \/>A new <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpoll.org\/results\/MAY2010.pdf\">University of Washington poll<\/a> shows Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) holding a slight edge over challenger Dino Rossi (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 44% to 40%.<\/p>\n<p>  Rossi is expected to officially <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2010\/05\/24\/rossi_staffing_up_for_senate_bid.html\">jump into<\/a> the race tomorrow.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~4\/AdLdEgHjjy4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>             <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simmons Will Step Aside for McMahon Rob Simmons (R) will hold a press conference this morning to announce he&#8217;s leaving the U.S. Senate race in Connecticut, the Hartford Courant reports. He lost the Republican convention&#8217;s endorsement last weekend to former World Wrestling CEO Linda McMahon (R). &#8220;Throughout the increasingly bitter campaign between Simmons and McMahon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}