{"id":7038,"date":"2024-03-08T05:43:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T05:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/george-santos-attends-state-of-the-union-and-announces-another-run-for-congress\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T05:43:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T05:43:59","slug":"george-santos-attends-state-of-the-union-and-announces-another-run-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/george-santos-attends-state-of-the-union-and-announces-another-run-for-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"George Santos attends State of the Union and announces another run for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disgraced ex-congressman chummed about with Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz, and then tweeted his candidacy for New York seat<\/p>\n<p>Disgraced ex-congressman and noted fabulist George Santos announced yet another run for Congress during a surprise appearance at Joe Biden\u2019s State of the Union address on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite currently facing federal criminal charges, Santos <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrSantosNY\/status\/1765933663345127764\">wrote<\/a> on X during the speech that he\u2019s looking to face off against his former colleague Representative Nick LaLota: \u201cTonight, I want to announce that I will be returning to the arena of politics and challenging Nick for the battle over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NY1?src=hashtag_click\">#NY1<\/a>. I look forward to debating him on the issues and on his weak record as a Republican. The fight for our majority is imperative for the survival of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/mar\/07\/state-of-the-union-george-santos-run-for-congress-again\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disgraced ex-congressman chummed about with Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz, and then tweeted his candidacy for New York seat Disgraced ex-congressman and noted fabulist George Santos announced yet another run for Congress during a surprise appearance at Joe Biden\u2019s State of the Union address on Thursday. Despite currently facing federal criminal charges, Santos wrote on &#8230; <a title=\"George Santos attends State of the Union and announces another run for Congress\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/george-santos-attends-state-of-the-union-and-announces-another-run-for-congress\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about George Santos attends State of the Union and announces another run for Congress\">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-7038","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\/7038","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=7038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}