{"id":77550,"date":"2026-08-18T06:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/primary-candidates-with-the-same-name-sparks-confusion\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T06:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:56:25","slug":"primary-candidates-with-the-same-name-sparks-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/primary-candidates-with-the-same-name-sparks-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Candidates With the Same Name Sparks Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in California, Florida, Wyoming and Alaska are heading to the polls where candidates with the same name in the same race are sparking confusion and harsh accusations. In Alaska, a reliably red state that President Donald Trump carried three times, a Republican incumbent is seeking a third term but has a strong challenger across the aisle whose name sounds a little too familiar. NBC\u2019s Ryan Nobles reports for TODAY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in California, Florida, Wyoming and Alaska are heading to the polls where candidates with the same name in the same race are sparking confusion and harsh accusations. In Alaska, a reliably red state that President Donald Trump carried three times, a Republican incumbent is seeking a third term but has a strong challenger across &#8230; <a title=\"Primary Candidates With the Same Name Sparks Confusion\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/primary-candidates-with-the-same-name-sparks-confusion\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Primary Candidates With the Same Name Sparks Confusion\">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-77550","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\/77550","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=77550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}