{"id":78784,"date":"2026-09-16T22:07:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/16\/pretend-im-on-the-ticket-trump-hits-campaign-trail-in-bid-to-boost-republican-hopes\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T22:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:07:55","slug":"pretend-im-on-the-ticket-trump-hits-campaign-trail-in-bid-to-boost-republican-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/16\/pretend-im-on-the-ticket-trump-hits-campaign-trail-in-bid-to-boost-republican-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pretend I\u2019m on the ticket\u2019: Trump hits campaign trail in bid to boost Republican hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President stumps for Senate nominee Michael Whatley in North Carolina and urges voters to \u2018crush the communists\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail on Wednesday, imploring North Carolina voters to \u201cpretend I\u2019m on the ticket\u201d and \u201ccrush the communists\u201d in the November elections at a rally in support of the Republican Senate nominee Michael Whatley.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Trump\u2019s deep unpopularity, Republicans hope to once again turn the president\u2019s loyal following into a political force as the party confronts an unforgiving midterm landscape.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/16\/trump-north-carolina-campaign-rally-republicans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President stumps for Senate nominee Michael Whatley in North Carolina and urges voters to \u2018crush the communists\u2019 Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail on Wednesday, imploring North Carolina voters to \u201cpretend I\u2019m on the ticket\u201d and \u201ccrush the communists\u201d in the November elections at a rally in support of the Republican Senate nominee Michael &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Pretend I\u2019m on the ticket\u2019: Trump hits campaign trail in bid to boost Republican hopes\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/16\/pretend-im-on-the-ticket-trump-hits-campaign-trail-in-bid-to-boost-republican-hopes\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Pretend I\u2019m on the ticket\u2019: Trump hits campaign trail in bid to boost Republican hopes\">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-78784","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\/78784","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=78784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}