{"id":10382,"date":"2015-07-31T02:42:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T02:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10382"},"modified":"2015-07-31T02:42:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T02:42:06","slug":"gop-field-now-appears-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10382","title":{"rendered":"GOP field now appears complete"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Pssst. I&#8217;m about to let you in on a secret.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Party&#8217;s presidential field now appears set. Sixteen men and one women are running for the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The final candidate &#8212; I hope! &#8212; announced his candidacy today. It&#8217;s former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore. I know, I know. Your enthusiasm is boiling over.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"qqDzjrSgcm\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/gop-primaries\/249878-jim-gilmore-formally-declares-white-house-bid\/\">Jim Gilmore formally declares White House bid<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Jim Gilmore formally declares White House bid&#8221; &#8212; The Hill\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/gop-primaries\/249878-jim-gilmore-formally-declares-white-house-bid\/embed\/#?secret=ds9T4jumta#?secret=qqDzjrSgcm\" data-secret=\"qqDzjrSgcm\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Gov. Gilmore&#8217;s message: We&#8217;re heading in the wrong direction. He&#8217;s going to strengthen our place in the world. He&#8217;s going to reverse the &#8220;Obama-Clinton&#8221; foreign policy debacles.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with Gilmore&#8217;s announcement was that no one heard it. Donald Trump, the party frontrunner, was in <em>Scotland<\/em> today, of all places. And the public is still talking about him.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the field? It doesn&#8217;t matter, apparently. The Donald is sucking up all the attention &#8212; as if that&#8217;s a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jim Gilmore has climbed into the arena.<\/p>\n<p>Does this complete the field? Let&#8217;s hope so.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pssst. I&#8217;m about to let you in on a secret. The Republican Party&#8217;s presidential field now appears set. Sixteen men and one women are running for the White House. The final candidate &#8212; I hope! &#8212; announced his candidacy today. It&#8217;s former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore. I know, I know. Your enthusiasm is boiling over. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10382\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GOP field now appears complete<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[540,1424,1950,2140,2476],"class_list":["post-10382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-field","tag-hillary-rodham-clinton","tag-jim-gilmore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}