{"id":68282,"date":"2026-03-06T08:58:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/texas-lawmaker-ends-re-election-bid-after-admitting-to-affair-with-ex-staffer\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:58:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:58:57","slug":"texas-lawmaker-ends-re-election-bid-after-admitting-to-affair-with-ex-staffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/texas-lawmaker-ends-re-election-bid-after-admitting-to-affair-with-ex-staffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas lawmaker ends re-election bid after admitting to affair with ex-staffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican congressman Tony Gonzales had repeatedly denied affair with former aide who later died by suicide<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/mar\/06\/kristi-noem-democrats-ice-donald-trump-pete-hegseth-iran-middle-east-us-politics-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Texas Republican congressman Tony Gonzales is ending his bid for re-election but said he will serve out his term, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/04\/tony-gonzales-texas-rep-alleged-affair\">his admitting<\/a>, after repeated denials, that he had an affair with a former staff member who later died by suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzales announced his plan late on Thursday after facing calls from party leadership to withdraw from the race for re-election this November. Others in Congress had called on him to resign his seat.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/06\/texas-tony-gonzales-reelection\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican congressman Tony Gonzales had repeatedly denied affair with former aide who later died by suicide US politics live \u2013 latest updates Texas Republican congressman Tony Gonzales is ending his bid for re-election but said he will serve out his term, following his admitting, after repeated denials, that he had an affair with a former &#8230; <a title=\"Texas lawmaker ends re-election bid after admitting to affair with ex-staffer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/texas-lawmaker-ends-re-election-bid-after-admitting-to-affair-with-ex-staffer\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Texas lawmaker ends re-election bid after admitting to affair with ex-staffer\">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-68282","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\/68282","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=68282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}