{"id":7172,"date":"2024-03-09T14:06:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T14:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/like-choosing-between-a-hedgehog-and-a-porcupine-us-braces-for-presidential-election-no-one-wants\/"},"modified":"2024-03-09T14:06:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T14:06:58","slug":"like-choosing-between-a-hedgehog-and-a-porcupine-us-braces-for-presidential-election-no-one-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/like-choosing-between-a-hedgehog-and-a-porcupine-us-braces-for-presidential-election-no-one-wants\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Like choosing between a hedgehog and a porcupine\u2019: US braces for presidential election no one wants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both candidates are disliked by a majority of Americans, and 45% believe a Joe Biden-Donald Trump rematch is bad for the country<\/p>\n<p>In past years, the first phase of the general election has involved at least one of the presidential nominees introducing themselves to the broader public and presenting their case for taking the country in a new direction. But that has been rendered unnecessary this year: former president Donald Trump and president Joe Biden are very familiar to the American electorate \u2013 and they are broadly unpopular.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is the worst election in my lifetime,\u201d said George Argodale, a Nikki Haley supporter from Gainesville, Virginia. \u201cIt\u2019s just terrible that we don\u2019t have better candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/mar\/09\/biden-trump-presidential-election-no-one-wants\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both candidates are disliked by a majority of Americans, and 45% believe a Joe Biden-Donald Trump rematch is bad for the country In past years, the first phase of the general election has involved at least one of the presidential nominees introducing themselves to the broader public and presenting their case for taking the country &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Like choosing between a hedgehog and a porcupine\u2019: US braces for presidential election no one wants\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/09\/like-choosing-between-a-hedgehog-and-a-porcupine-us-braces-for-presidential-election-no-one-wants\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Like choosing between a hedgehog and a porcupine\u2019: US braces for presidential election no one wants\">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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7172","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\/7172","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=7172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}