{"id":3270,"date":"2023-01-03T07:10:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T13:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2023-03-15T02:56:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T07:56:37","slug":"trump-blames-pro-life-republicans-for-midterm-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3270","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Trump blames pro-life Republicans for midterm loss<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump blamed\u00a0pro-life Republicans\u00a0for the party&#8217;s lackluster performance in the 2022 midterm elections, rejecting any blame on Monday.<br \/>\nTrump faced heavy criticism following midterm elections after Trump-endorsed candidates lost key close races across the country. Many commentators argued Trump had forced the party to put up bad candidates, but Trump now argues it was the fault of staunchly pro-life Republicans.<br \/>\n&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t my fault that the Republicans didn&#8217;t live up to expectations in the midterms,&#8221; Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. &#8220;It was the \u2018abortion issue,\u2019 poorly handled by many Republicans, especially those that firmly insisted on No Exceptions, even in the case of rape, incest or life of the mother, that lost large numbers of voters.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Also, the people that pushed so hard, for decades, against abortion, got their wish from the U.S. Supreme Court, and just plain disappeared, not to be seen again,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-blames-pro-life-republicans-midterm-loss\">Foxnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump blamed\u00a0pro-life Republicans\u00a0for the party&#8217;s lackluster performance in the 2022 midterm elections, rejecting any blame on Monday. Trump faced heavy criticism following midterm elections after Trump-endorsed candidates lost key close races across the country. Many commentators argued Trump had forced the party to put up bad candidates, but Trump now argues it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1307,2878,1271,1210,3391,2891,1580,1230],"class_list":["post-3270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-abortion","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-lame","tag-midterm","tag-midterm-elections","tag-politics","tag-republicans","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7594,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions\/7594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}