{"id":76950,"date":"2026-08-04T06:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/democrats-face-big-test-in-critical-michigan-primary\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T06:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:55:09","slug":"democrats-face-big-test-in-critical-michigan-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/democrats-face-big-test-in-critical-michigan-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Face Big Test in Critical Michigan Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is primary day in a handful of states and voters are heading to the polls with key races up for grabs that could signal which direction the parties are headed before the November midterms. One of the most closely watched contests is taking place in Michigan, which has become the Democrat\u2019s most expensive Senate primary race ever. NBC\u2019s Shaquille Brewster reports and Steve Kornacki joins TODAY with analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is primary day in a handful of states and voters are heading to the polls with key races up for grabs that could signal which direction the parties are headed before the November midterms. One of the most closely watched contests is taking place in Michigan, which has become the Democrat\u2019s most expensive Senate &#8230; <a title=\"Democrats Face Big Test in Critical Michigan Primary\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/democrats-face-big-test-in-critical-michigan-primary\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democrats Face Big Test in Critical Michigan Primary\">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-76950","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\/76950","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=76950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}