{"id":30251,"date":"2025-01-11T16:47:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/gloom-and-pessimism-take-hold-of-democrats-as-they-prepare-to-elect-party-leader\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T16:47:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:47:46","slug":"gloom-and-pessimism-take-hold-of-democrats-as-they-prepare-to-elect-party-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/gloom-and-pessimism-take-hold-of-democrats-as-they-prepare-to-elect-party-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloom and pessimism take hold of Democrats as they prepare to elect party leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions about the viability of a female presidential candidate also rise after a crushing presidential defeat <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrats<\/a> are harboring strong feelings of stress and gloom as the new year begins. And many are questioning whether their party\u2019s commitment to diverse candidates \u2013 especially women \u2013 may lead to further political struggles as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> is sworn in for a second presidency on 20 January.<\/p>\n<p>A recent poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that a significant number of Democrats believe that it may be decades before the United States will get its first female president.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/11\/democratic-national-committee-leadership-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions about the viability of a female presidential candidate also rise after a crushing presidential defeat Democrats are harboring strong feelings of stress and gloom as the new year begins. And many are questioning whether their party\u2019s commitment to diverse candidates \u2013 especially women \u2013 may lead to further political struggles as Donald Trump is &#8230; <a title=\"Gloom and pessimism take hold of Democrats as they prepare to elect party leader\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/11\/gloom-and-pessimism-take-hold-of-democrats-as-they-prepare-to-elect-party-leader\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Gloom and pessimism take hold of Democrats as they prepare to elect party leader\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}