{"id":76948,"date":"2026-08-04T06:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/vote-to-take-place-on-blanche-nomination-after-gop-senators-drop-opposition-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T06:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:55:08","slug":"vote-to-take-place-on-blanche-nomination-after-gop-senators-drop-opposition-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/vote-to-take-place-on-blanche-nomination-after-gop-senators-drop-opposition-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote to take place on Blanche nomination after GOP senators drop opposition \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s former personal lawyer appears on track to become attorney general despite reservations over deal withdrawing \u2018anti-weaponization fund\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/03\/todd-blanche-donald-trump-deal\">Critics denounce Blanche deal to halt Trump slush fund<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for US Breaking News email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Donald Trump is making a rare visit to California and Nevada this week to try to draw contrasts with Democrats on the economy, border security and crime , seeking to shore up support for Republicans in November elections that will determine whether his party keeps control of Congress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Republican president has struggled to connect with voters on the economy as elevated inflation and feelings of uncertainty have overshadowed the stock market gains he often talks about along with a low national unemployment rate, AP reports.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/aug\/04\/donald-trump-todd-blanche-republicans-vote-michigan-midterm-primary-democrats-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s former personal lawyer appears on track to become attorney general despite reservations over deal withdrawing \u2018anti-weaponization fund\u2019 Critics denounce Blanche deal to halt Trump slush fund Sign up for US Breaking News email Donald Trump is making a rare visit to California and Nevada this week to try to draw contrasts with Democrats on &#8230; <a title=\"Vote to take place on Blanche nomination after GOP senators drop opposition \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/vote-to-take-place-on-blanche-nomination-after-gop-senators-drop-opposition-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Vote to take place on Blanche nomination after GOP senators drop opposition \u2013 US politics live\">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-76948","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\/76948","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=76948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}