{"id":231922,"date":"2026-06-10T09:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231922"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:54:52","slug":"could-independent-candidates-make-a-difference-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231922","title":{"rendered":"Could Independent Candidates Make a Difference in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN released a new presidential approval poll this week, and the headlines aren&#8217;t good for the White House. More Americans now disapprove of the job the president is doing than at any other point during the five-plus years Donald Trump has occupied the Oval Office &#8211; higher even than after the Jan&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2026\/04\/03\/could_independent_candidates_make_a_difference_in_2026_696130.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN released a new presidential approval poll this week, and the headlines aren&#8217;t good for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231922-could-independent-candidates-make-a-difference-in-2026.jpeg",90,60,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231922-could-independent-candidates-make-a-difference-in-2026.jpeg",90,60,false],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231922-could-independent-candidates-make-a-difference-in-2026.jpeg",90,60,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231922-could-independent-candidates-make-a-difference-in-2026.jpeg",90,60,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231922-could-independent-candidates-make-a-difference-in-2026.jpeg",90,60,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231922-could-independent-candidates-make-a-difference-in-2026.jpeg",90,60,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231922-could-independent-candidates-make-a-difference-in-2026.jpeg",90,60,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231922-could-independent-candidates-make-a-difference-in-2026.jpeg",90,60,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231922-could-independent-candidates-make-a-difference-in-2026.jpeg",90,60,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231922-could-independent-candidates-make-a-difference-in-2026.jpeg",90,60,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231922","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=231922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}