{"id":4954,"date":"2024-05-29T09:14:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T09:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/texas-house-speaker-survives-challenge-from-trump-backed-candidate\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T09:14:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T09:14:18","slug":"texas-house-speaker-survives-challenge-from-trump-backed-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/29\/texas-house-speaker-survives-challenge-from-trump-backed-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas House speaker survives challenge from Trump-backed candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">The Republican speaker of the Texas House narrowly survived a primary challenge Tuesday from a candidate backed by former president Donald Trump and his in-state allies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">The speaker, Dade Phelan, was leading challenger David Covey by 366 votes when the Associated Press projected a Phelan victory. Covey is a former county party chair in the southeast Texas district.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on The Washington Post<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican speaker of the Texas House narrowly survived a primary challenge Tuesday from a candidate backed by former president Donald Trump and his in-state allies. The speaker, Dade Phelan, was leading challenger David Covey by 366 votes when the Associated Press projected a Phelan victory. Covey is a former county party chair in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}