{"id":15133,"date":"2015-12-22T18:23:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T01:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15133"},"modified":"2015-12-22T18:25:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T01:25:51","slug":"gone-from-the-undercard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2015\/12\/22\/gone-from-the-undercard\/","title":{"rendered":"gone from the undercard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After supposedly winning the &#8220;undercard&#8221; debate (by dent of getting a few media &#8211; savvy one liner quips into the limited media notation coverage on the &#8220;undercard&#8221; debate) Lindsey Graham quits the Presidential Race, and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/12\/21\/politics\/lindsey-graham-gop-2016-elections\/\">GOP Wonders Who&#8217;s Next<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Will it be Jim Gilmore?\u00c2\u00a0 Rick Santorum?\u00c2\u00a0 Mike Huckabee?\u00c2\u00a0 George Pataki?\u00c2\u00a0 Who, who, who?<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This is an election for the heart and soul of the Republican Party,&#8221; Graham said on CNN. &#8220;This is no longer about 2016. This is about who we are as a party, where do we want to go, where do we take the country.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And it is does not belong to Lindsey Graham.<\/p>\n<p>But the questions this wages isn&#8217;t so much&#8230; who&#8217;s next?&#8230; it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Will this provide a space for Jim Gilmore to make this next &#8220;undercard&#8221; debate, and if not&#8230; can we have an &#8220;undercard&#8221; debate with, oh, 2 candidates on the stage?<\/p>\n<p>And, I guess, who wins the much vaulted &#8220;Lindsey Graham&#8221; support?\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jeb-bush-picks-up-key-lindsey-graham-south-carolina-backers-2015-12\">Jeb Bush gets the official campaign apparatus, for whatever that&#8217;s worth<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After supposedly winning the &#8220;undercard&#8221; debate (by dent of getting a few media &#8211; savvy one liner quips into the limited media notation coverage on the &#8220;undercard&#8221; debate) Lindsey Graham quits the Presidential Race, and &#8220;GOP Wonders Who&#8217;s Next&#8220;. Will it be Jim Gilmore?\u00c2\u00a0 Rick Santorum?\u00c2\u00a0 Mike Huckabee?\u00c2\u00a0 George Pataki?\u00c2\u00a0 Who, who, who? &#8220;This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15136,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15133\/revisions\/15136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}