{"id":221130,"date":"2026-04-20T17:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=221130"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:48:03","slug":"trump-looms-large-over-republican-congressional-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=221130","title":{"rendered":"Trump looms large over Republican congressional primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump will not be on the ballot this year, but you might not know it based on the ads being run by Republicans in competitive congressional primaries.Why it matters: Even as his approval rating droops amid rising gas prices and a sluggish economy, the president is still one of the most potent forces in Republican politics.His endorsement is highly coveted by Republican congressional candidates&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/04\/10\/trump-republican-2026-midterms-massie-gallrein\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump will not be on the ballot this year, but you might not know<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221130-trump-looms-large-over-republican-congressional-primaries.jpeg",320,320,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221130-trump-looms-large-over-republican-congressional-primaries-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221130-trump-looms-large-over-republican-congressional-primaries-300x300.jpeg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221130-trump-looms-large-over-republican-congressional-primaries.jpeg",320,320,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221130-trump-looms-large-over-republican-congressional-primaries.jpeg",320,320,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221130-trump-looms-large-over-republican-congressional-primaries.jpeg",320,320,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221130-trump-looms-large-over-republican-congressional-primaries.jpeg",320,320,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221130-trump-looms-large-over-republican-congressional-primaries.jpeg",320,320,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221130-trump-looms-large-over-republican-congressional-primaries.jpeg",320,320,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221130-trump-looms-large-over-republican-congressional-primaries.jpeg",320,320,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/221131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}