{"id":78105,"date":"2026-08-31T09:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/a-pediatrician-is-running-for-senate-can-doctors-change-the-political-debate-over-health-and-science\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T09:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:55:07","slug":"a-pediatrician-is-running-for-senate-can-doctors-change-the-political-debate-over-health-and-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/a-pediatrician-is-running-for-senate-can-doctors-change-the-political-debate-over-health-and-science\/","title":{"rendered":"A pediatrician is running for Senate. Can doctors change the political debate over health and science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Lindsey Graham\u2019s death, Democrat Annie Andrews finds herself in a closely watched race as she seeks to flip his Republican seat<\/p>\n<p>Annie Andrews was a dark horse Democrat challenging a five-term Republican in the US Senate when 314 Action, a political action fund devoted to electing scientists and doctors, first backed her.<\/p>\n<p>Now, after the unexpected death of Senator Lindsey Graham, Andrews finds herself in a closely watched race. Donald Trump persuaded South Carolina voters last week to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/25\/south-carolina-senate-republican-primary-runoff\">select Graham\u2019s sister, Darline<\/a>, as the new Republican candidate. They will face off in November in an election still heavily favored to remain in Republican hands in the conservative state.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/31\/annie-andrews-south-carolina-senate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Lindsey Graham\u2019s death, Democrat Annie Andrews finds herself in a closely watched race as she seeks to flip his Republican seat Annie Andrews was a dark horse Democrat challenging a five-term Republican in the US Senate when 314 Action, a political action fund devoted to electing scientists and doctors, first backed her. Now, after &#8230; <a title=\"A pediatrician is running for Senate. Can doctors change the political debate over health and science?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/a-pediatrician-is-running-for-senate-can-doctors-change-the-political-debate-over-health-and-science\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A pediatrician is running for Senate. Can doctors change the political debate over health and science?\">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-78105","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\/78105","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=78105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}