{"id":77811,"date":"2026-08-24T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/24\/hakeem-jeffries-meeting-with-jared-kushner-sparks-backlash-amongst-democrats-ahead-of-midterm-elections-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T06:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T11:55:00","slug":"hakeem-jeffries-meeting-with-jared-kushner-sparks-backlash-amongst-democrats-ahead-of-midterm-elections-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/24\/hakeem-jeffries-meeting-with-jared-kushner-sparks-backlash-amongst-democrats-ahead-of-midterm-elections-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakeem Jeffries meeting with Jared Kushner sparks backlash amongst Democrats ahead of midterm elections \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Democratic leader meets with president\u2019s son-in-law has ignited fury amongst own party <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/23\/hakeem-jeffries-jared-kushner-meeting\">Democrats incredulous over Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner meeting<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Over a dozen US companies that signed a 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessforvotingrights.com\/letter-to-congress\">letter<\/a> urging Congress to strengthen the Voting Rights Act continue to contribute to state political groups that are actively working to undermine the legislation, according to a campaign finance watchdog.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Center for Political Accountability (CPA), a nonpartisan organization that tracks financial disclosures, found that companies \u2013 including Airbnb, DoorDash, Target and Zillow \u2013 that signed the letter are contributing to groups known as 527 organizations that prop up key state races, according to data provided exclusively to the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/aug\/24\/hakeem-jeffries-jared-kushner-democrats-midterm-elections-donald-trump-iran-war-sanctions-latest-news-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democratic leader meets with president\u2019s son-in-law has ignited fury amongst own party Democrats incredulous over Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner meeting Over a dozen US companies that signed a 2021 letter urging Congress to strengthen the Voting Rights Act continue to contribute to state political groups that are actively working to undermine the legislation, &#8230; <a title=\"Hakeem Jeffries meeting with Jared Kushner sparks backlash amongst Democrats ahead of midterm elections \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/24\/hakeem-jeffries-meeting-with-jared-kushner-sparks-backlash-amongst-democrats-ahead-of-midterm-elections-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hakeem Jeffries meeting with Jared Kushner sparks backlash amongst Democrats ahead of midterm elections \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-77811","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\/77811","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=77811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}