{"id":3349,"date":"2024-02-04T13:57:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T13:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/04\/an-ex-congressman-or-a-publicity-shy-republican-who-will-replace-george-santos\/"},"modified":"2024-02-04T13:57:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T13:57:48","slug":"an-ex-congressman-or-a-publicity-shy-republican-who-will-replace-george-santos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/04\/an-ex-congressman-or-a-publicity-shy-republican-who-will-replace-george-santos\/","title":{"rendered":"An ex-congressman or a publicity-shy Republican: who will replace George Santos?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration is key issue in special election as Tom Suozzi takes on Mazi Pilip in New York race that could be bellwether for November<\/p>\n<p>George Santos, an overcoat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oklahoman.com\/story\/news\/politics\/government\/2023\/12\/01\/george-santos-expelled-\">draped around his shoulders<\/a> like a villain\u2019s cape, finally left Washington in December, expelled from Congress as he faced more than 20 fraud charges, and after his almost entirely fabricated backstory fell apart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo hell with this place,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/dec\/02\/george-santos-accusations-ex-colleagues\">Santos declared<\/a> as he exited.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/feb\/04\/george-santos-replacement-tom-suozzi-mazi-pilip\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration is key issue in special election as Tom Suozzi takes on Mazi Pilip in New York race that could be bellwether for November George Santos, an overcoat draped around his shoulders like a villain\u2019s cape, finally left Washington in December, expelled from Congress as he faced more than 20 fraud charges, and after his &#8230; <a title=\"An ex-congressman or a publicity-shy Republican: who will replace George Santos?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/04\/an-ex-congressman-or-a-publicity-shy-republican-who-will-replace-george-santos\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about An ex-congressman or a publicity-shy Republican: who will replace George Santos?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3349","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\/3349","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}