{"id":77772,"date":"2026-08-23T07:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T12:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/republicans-grow-concerned-with-economys-impact-on-midterms\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T07:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T12:54:53","slug":"republicans-grow-concerned-with-economys-impact-on-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/republicans-grow-concerned-with-economys-impact-on-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Grow Concerned With Economy\u2019s Impact on Midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker joins Sunday TODAY\u2019s Willie Geist to discuss how Republicans are feeling about the midterm elections as affordability continues to be the no.1 issue for voters and races in states like Texas move to toss-ups. \u201cNo Democrat has won the senate seat there since the 1980s. Could this cycle be different? That\u2019s one of the big questions and could determine control of the senate and ultimately the House as well,\u201d Kristen says.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker joins Sunday TODAY\u2019s Willie Geist to discuss how Republicans are feeling about the midterm elections as affordability continues to be the no.1 issue for voters and races in states like Texas move to toss-ups. \u201cNo Democrat has won the senate seat there since the 1980s. Could this cycle be &#8230; <a title=\"Republicans Grow Concerned With Economy\u2019s Impact on Midterms\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/republicans-grow-concerned-with-economys-impact-on-midterms\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republicans Grow Concerned With Economy\u2019s Impact on Midterms\">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-77772","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\/77772","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=77772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}