{"id":77177,"date":"2026-08-09T08:58:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/09\/can-progressive-democrats-win-in-the-2026-midterm-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T08:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:58:28","slug":"can-progressive-democrats-win-in-the-2026-midterm-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/09\/can-progressive-democrats-win-in-the-2026-midterm-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Progressive Democrats Win in the 2026 Midterm Elections?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker joins Sunday TODAY\u2019s Willie Geist to discuss how Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s victory in Michigan sets up a battle internally between centrist Democrats and progressives. \u201cThe challenge for him will be winning over those who voted for his opponent and moderate and independent voters who can sway the entire election,\u201d Kristen says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker joins Sunday TODAY\u2019s Willie Geist to discuss how Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s victory in Michigan sets up a battle internally between centrist Democrats and progressives. \u201cThe challenge for him will be winning over those who voted for his opponent and moderate and independent voters who can sway the entire &#8230; <a title=\"Can Progressive Democrats Win in the 2026 Midterm Elections?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/09\/can-progressive-democrats-win-in-the-2026-midterm-elections\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Can Progressive Democrats Win in the 2026 Midterm Elections?\">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-77177","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\/77177","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=77177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}