{"id":77940,"date":"2026-08-26T17:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/man-in-prison-in-new-york-advances-in-primary-for-alaskas-us-house-seat\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T17:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:55:30","slug":"man-in-prison-in-new-york-advances-in-primary-for-alaskas-us-house-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/man-in-prison-in-new-york-advances-in-primary-for-alaskas-us-house-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in prison in New York advances in primary for Alaska\u2019s US House seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Eric Hafner, to be released in 2036, also ran for seat in 2024, securing spot on that general election ballot<\/p>\n<p>A man who is serving time in a federal prison in New York advanced on Wednesday from the primary for Alaska\u2019s lone US House seat.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Hafner, a registered Democrat, also ran for the seat in 2024 and secured a spot on the general election ballot that November despite a challenge brought by the Alaska Democratic party.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/26\/alaska-us-house-primary-federal-prisoner-eric-hafner\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Eric Hafner, to be released in 2036, also ran for seat in 2024, securing spot on that general election ballot A man who is serving time in a federal prison in New York advanced on Wednesday from the primary for Alaska\u2019s lone US House seat. Eric Hafner, a registered Democrat, also ran for the &#8230; <a title=\"Man in prison in New York advances in primary for Alaska\u2019s US House seat\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/man-in-prison-in-new-york-advances-in-primary-for-alaskas-us-house-seat\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Man in prison in New York advances in primary for Alaska\u2019s US House seat\">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-77940","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\/77940","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=77940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}