{"id":75518,"date":"2026-06-29T12:59:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/backlash-from-centrist-democrats-as-democratic-socialist-candidates-sweep-primaries\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T12:59:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:59:46","slug":"backlash-from-centrist-democrats-as-democratic-socialist-candidates-sweep-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/backlash-from-centrist-democrats-as-democratic-socialist-candidates-sweep-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Backlash from centrist Democrats as democratic socialist candidates sweep primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Party\u2019s old guard abandons \u2018blue no matter what\u2019 banner to push for a more formal break with progressive wing<\/p>\n<p>After a string of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) primary victories, the loudest response from much of the Democratic establishment\u2019s old guard was not reconciliation, but escalation.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few days, prominent party figures have moved away from unifying under a \u201cblue no matter who\u201d banner to push for a more formal break with their left flank, and said the moment may have arrived for Democrats to confront their more socialist wing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/29\/centrist-democrats-democratic-socialists-backlash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Party\u2019s old guard abandons \u2018blue no matter what\u2019 banner to push for a more formal break with progressive wing After a string of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) primary victories, the loudest response from much of the Democratic establishment\u2019s old guard was not reconciliation, but escalation. Over the last few days, prominent party figures have &#8230; <a title=\"Backlash from centrist Democrats as democratic socialist candidates sweep primaries\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/backlash-from-centrist-democrats-as-democratic-socialist-candidates-sweep-primaries\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Backlash from centrist Democrats as democratic socialist candidates sweep primaries\">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_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-75518","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\/75518","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=75518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}