{"id":68121,"date":"2026-03-04T20:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/montana-republican-steve-daines-drops-senate-re-election-bid-minutes-before-deadline\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T20:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:54:59","slug":"montana-republican-steve-daines-drops-senate-re-election-bid-minutes-before-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/montana-republican-steve-daines-drops-senate-re-election-bid-minutes-before-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana Republican Steve Daines drops Senate re-election bid minutes before deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump ally Daines confirms resignation and withdraws bid for a third term, saying: \u2018It is time for new leaders\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Republican US senator Steve Daines of Montana dropped his bid for re-election to a third term Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Daines withdrew his name just minutes before the deadline for candidates to file for the November election with the Montana secretary of state\u2019s office. Daines confirmed his resignation in a statement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/04\/montana-senate-republican-steve-daines\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump ally Daines confirms resignation and withdraws bid for a third term, saying: \u2018It is time for new leaders\u2019 Republican US senator Steve Daines of Montana dropped his bid for re-election to a third term Wednesday. Daines withdrew his name just minutes before the deadline for candidates to file for the November election with the &#8230; <a title=\"Montana Republican Steve Daines drops Senate re-election bid minutes before deadline\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/montana-republican-steve-daines-drops-senate-re-election-bid-minutes-before-deadline\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Montana Republican Steve Daines drops Senate re-election bid minutes before deadline\">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-68121","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\/68121","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=68121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}