{"id":25463,"date":"2020-01-24T08:49:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T07:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25463"},"modified":"2020-01-24T08:49:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T07:49:12","slug":"who-would-be-the-democrats-best-choice-to-defeat-donald-trump-in-the-battle-for-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25463","title":{"rendered":"Who would be the Democrats&#8217; best choice to defeat Donald Trump in the battle for the White House?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The &#8216;New York Times&#8221; editorial board spent a lot of time talking with the candidates and deliberating on their preferred individual. In the end and most unusually, they decide to back two candidates: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/01\/14\/opinion\/elizabeth-warren-nytimes-interview.html\">Elizabeth Warren<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/01\/15\/opinion\/amy-klobuchar-nytimes-interview.html\">Amy Klobuchar<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/01\/19\/opinion\/amy-klobuchar-elizabeth-warren-nytimes-endorsement.html\">This feature<\/a> is a thoughtful assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the different personalities running for the candidacy, so it is worth reading. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of my closest American friends are backing Bernie Sanders again but, if I were an American, I think I would be supporting Elizabeth Warren. Let&#8217;s see &#8211; the contest starts in earnest very soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iowa will hold its caucuses on Monday 3 February; New Hampshire will have its primary on Tuesday 11 February; Nevada will hold its caucuses on Saturday 22 February; South Carolina will have its primary on Saturday 29 February. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;New York Times&#8221; editorial board spent a lot of time talking with the candidates and deliberating on their preferred individual. In the end and most unusually, they decide to back two candidates: Elizabeth Warren&nbsp;and&nbsp;Amy Klobuchar. This feature is a thoughtful assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the different personalities running for the candidacy, [&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-25463","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\/25463","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=25463"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25469,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25463\/revisions\/25469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}