{"id":73567,"date":"2026-05-15T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/longtime-democratic-rep-steve-cohen-announces-end-to-re-election-bid\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:00:42","slug":"longtime-democratic-rep-steve-cohen-announces-end-to-re-election-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/longtime-democratic-rep-steve-cohen-announces-end-to-re-election-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime Democratic Rep Steve Cohen announces end to re-election bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee announced on Friday that he signed a document requesting not to be included on the ballot in Tennessee&#8217;s 9th Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>The congressman described the district determined by &#8220;new lines&#8221; as &#8220;nothing like the 9th district that I&#8217;ve represented.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic primary in the district is scheduled to take place in August. Cohen&#8217;s ending his re-election bid after 19 years in Congress.<\/p>\n<p><i>This is a breaking news story and will be updated<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee announced on Friday that he signed a document requesting not to be included on the ballot in Tennessee&#8217;s 9th Congressional District. The congressman described the district determined by &#8220;new lines&#8221; as &#8220;nothing like the 9th district that I&#8217;ve represented.&#8221; The Democratic primary in the district is scheduled to take &#8230; <a title=\"Longtime Democratic Rep Steve Cohen announces end to re-election bid\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/longtime-democratic-rep-steve-cohen-announces-end-to-re-election-bid\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Longtime Democratic Rep Steve Cohen announces end to re-election bid\">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-73567","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\/73567","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=73567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}