{"id":67578,"date":"2026-02-27T19:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/north-carolina-democrat-running-in-gop-primary-to-protest-gerrymandering\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:55:08","slug":"north-carolina-democrat-running-in-gop-primary-to-protest-gerrymandering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/north-carolina-democrat-running-in-gop-primary-to-protest-gerrymandering\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Democrat running in GOP primary to protest gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Barr knowingly ran an unwinnable race as a Democrat for North Carolina\u2019s state Senate in 2023. She\u2019s back on the ballot again this year, now as a Republican, challenging Rep. Tim Moore (R-N.C.). NBC News Legal Affairs reporter Gary Grumbach reports on Barr\u2019s long shot campaign to shed light on partisan gerrymandering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Barr knowingly ran an unwinnable race as a Democrat for North Carolina\u2019s state Senate in 2023. She\u2019s back on the ballot again this year, now as a Republican, challenging Rep. Tim Moore (R-N.C.). NBC News Legal Affairs reporter Gary Grumbach reports on Barr\u2019s long shot campaign to shed light on partisan gerrymandering.<\/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-67578","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\/67578","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=67578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}