{"id":44519,"date":"2018-06-09T15:55:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T13:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/09\/democrats-avert-civil-war-as-they-eye-unity-for-midterms\/"},"modified":"2018-06-09T15:55:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T13:55:03","slug":"democrats-avert-civil-war-as-they-eye-unity-for-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=44519","title":{"rendered":"Democrats avert civil war as they eye unity for midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite talk of a civil war between the party\u2019s progressive and centrist wings, observers see unity against Donald Trump Kara Eastman, a progressive who campaigned on a \u201cMedicare for all\u201d healthcare system and free college, stunned Washington Democrats last month when she beat Brad Ashford, a moderate former congressman backed by the party, in the primary for a Nebraska House race. Her upset victory was cheered as a resounding win for the activist left \u2013 and a repudiation of centrist politics. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jun\/09\/democrats-party-divided-donald-trump-midterms\" target=\"_blank\">Democrats avert civil war as they eye unity for midterms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite talk of a civil war between the party\u2019s progressive and centrist wings, observers see unity against Donald Trump Kara Eastman, a progressive who campaigned on a \u201cMedicare for all\u201d healthcare system and free college, stunned Washington Democrats last month when she beat Brad Ashford, a moderate former congressman backed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}