{"id":77348,"date":"2026-08-13T07:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/questions-over-karoline-leavitts-replacement-as-she-steps-down-as-white-house-press-secretary-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T07:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T12:56:09","slug":"questions-over-karoline-leavitts-replacement-as-she-steps-down-as-white-house-press-secretary-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/questions-over-karoline-leavitts-replacement-as-she-steps-down-as-white-house-press-secretary-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions over Karoline Leavitt\u2019s replacement as she steps down as White House press secretary \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leavitt\u2019s departure three months before midterms raises questions over who will communicate Trump\u2019s messages as his approval rating falls to record low, says YouGov polling<\/p>\n<ul>\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 the Breaking News US email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Donald Trump is in Washington today<\/strong>. He\u2019ll spend most of day in private meetings that will be closed to the press. We\u2019ll keep an eye out for any more information on the president\u2019s replacement pick for White House press secretary, following the news that <strong>Karoline Leavitt <\/strong>would step down from her role at the end of August.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A federal judge in Miami will hear arguments on Thursday over whether social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate should remain in custody as they fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where the brothers are accused of rape and sex trafficking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/aug\/13\/karoline-leavitt-white-house-primaries-trump-politics-latest-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leavitt\u2019s departure three months before midterms raises questions over who will communicate Trump\u2019s messages as his approval rating falls to record low, says YouGov polling Sign up for the Breaking News US email Donald Trump is in Washington today. He\u2019ll spend most of day in private meetings that will be closed to the press. We\u2019ll &#8230; <a title=\"Questions over Karoline Leavitt\u2019s replacement as she steps down as White House press secretary \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/13\/questions-over-karoline-leavitts-replacement-as-she-steps-down-as-white-house-press-secretary-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Questions over Karoline Leavitt\u2019s replacement as she steps down as White House press secretary \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-77348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77348","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=77348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}