{"id":49459,"date":"2025-11-04T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=49459"},"modified":"2025-11-04T22:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:12:32","slug":"vances-half-brother-loses-bid-for-cincinnati-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=49459","title":{"rendered":"Vance\u2019s half-brother loses bid for Cincinnati mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval (D) has won reelection, beating back a challenge from Cory Bowman (R), a pastor and coffee shop co-owner who is the half-brother of Vice President Vance, according to Decision Desk HQ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Pureval first won office in 2021 after defeating former Cincinnati Mayor David Mann (D). The race is technically nonpartisan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Pureval had easily trounced Bowman during the May open primary, where the mayor received more than 80 percent of the vote. Since both men were the two top vote-getters in the primary, they moved on to compete in the November general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Republicans haven\u2019t had a nominee on the general election ballot for Cincinnati mayor in more than a dozen years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5588567-cincinnati-mayor-aftab-pureval\/\">thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval (D) has won reelection, beating back a challenge from Cory Bowman (R), a pastor and coffee shop co-owner who is the half-brother of Vice President Vance, according to Decision Desk HQ. Pureval first won office in 2021 after defeating former Cincinnati Mayor David Mann (D). The race is technically nonpartisan. Pureval [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":49460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1637,3094,35174,1582,2488],"class_list":["post-49459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-campaign","tag-cincinnati","tag-half-brother","tag-mayor","tag-vance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49459","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49461,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49459\/revisions\/49461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}