{"id":16335,"date":"2014-12-19T10:46:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T09:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16335"},"modified":"2014-12-19T10:48:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T09:48:29","slug":"u-s-presidential-election-1-the-first-candidate-declares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16335","title":{"rendered":"U.S. presidential election (1): the first candidate declares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Florida governor Republican Jeb Bush has become the first person to declare that he will seek his party&#8217;s candidature in the US Presidential election in November 2016.<\/p>\n<p>His rivals for the nomination will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chris Christie &#8211; current governor of New Jersey<\/li>\n<li>Rand Paul &#8211; a senator from Kentucky<\/li>\n<li>Ted Cruz &#8211; a senator from Texas<\/li>\n<li>Mitt Romney &#8211; former presidential candidate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Over in the Democratic Party, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is widely expected to seek and obtain her party&#8217;s nomination. However, other possible runners include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elizabeth Warren &#8211; a senator from Massachusetts<\/li>\n<li>Bernie Sanders &#8211; a senator from Vermont<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the presidential contest came down to a Bush versus a Clinton, this would represent a long-term occupancy of the White House by just two families as I discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16082\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Florida governor Republican Jeb Bush has become the first person to declare that he will seek his party&#8217;s candidature in the US Presidential election in November 2016. His rivals for the nomination will include: Chris Christie &#8211; current governor of New Jersey Rand Paul &#8211; a senator from Kentucky Ted Cruz &#8211; a senator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16335"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16359,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16335\/revisions\/16359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}