{"id":31607,"date":"2025-01-26T12:25:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T12:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/in-the-wilderness-democrats-struggle-to-navigate-the-politics-of-new-trump-era\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T12:25:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T12:25:23","slug":"in-the-wilderness-democrats-struggle-to-navigate-the-politics-of-new-trump-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/in-the-wilderness-democrats-struggle-to-navigate-the-politics-of-new-trump-era\/","title":{"rendered":"In the wilderness: Democrats struggle to navigate the politics of new Trump era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once united in opposition to Trump during his first term, Democrats now flounder with his return to the White House<\/p>\n<p>In the end, Donald Trump has Democrats to thank for delivering the first legislative victory of his second term.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after he was sworn into office, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/17\/laken-riley-act-democrats-undocumented-immigrants\">dozen Senate Democrats<\/a> joined all Republicans in approving a bill that would require the detention and deportation of migrants accused of theft-related crimes. Moments later, the chamber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/20\/trump-marco-rubio-secretary-of-state\">unanimously confirmed<\/a> their colleague, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, to be Trump\u2019s secretary of state.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/26\/democrats-trump-return\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once united in opposition to Trump during his first term, Democrats now flounder with his return to the White House In the end, Donald Trump has Democrats to thank for delivering the first legislative victory of his second term. Hours after he was sworn into office, a dozen Senate Democrats joined all Republicans in approving &#8230; <a title=\"In the wilderness: Democrats struggle to navigate the politics of new Trump era\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/in-the-wilderness-democrats-struggle-to-navigate-the-politics-of-new-trump-era\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about In the wilderness: Democrats struggle to navigate the politics of new Trump era\">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-31607","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\/31607","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=31607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}