{"id":349864,"date":"2018-02-26T04:54:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T03:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-california-democrats-decline-to-endorse-states-senator\/"},"modified":"2018-02-26T04:54:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T03:54:14","slug":"presstv-california-democrats-decline-to-endorse-states-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-california-democrats-decline-to-endorse-states-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-California Democrats decline to endorse state&#8217;s senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>In a sharp setback for seasoned Senator Dianne Feinstein and her effort to win a sixth term representing California in the US senate, California\u2019s Democratic Party has declined to endorse the state\u2019s own senior senator in her re-election bid.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Politico reported neither Feinstein nor her main opponent Kevin de Leon reached the 60-percent threshold required to receive the party endorsement for 2018. But the snubbing of Feinstein led de Leon to claim a victory for his struggling campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe outcome of today\u2019s endorsement vote is an astounding rejection of politics as usual, and it boosts our campaign\u2019s momentum as we all stand shoulder-to-shoulder against a complacent status quo,\u201d a statement issued by de Leon Sunday morning said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCalifornia Democrats are hungry for new leadership that will fight for California values from the front lines, not equivocate on the sidelines.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In an aggressive appeal to thousands of delegates&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/02\/26\/553619\/congress-Senator-Dianne-Feinstein-Kevin-de-Leon\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a sharp setback for seasoned Senator Dianne Feinstein and her effort to win a sixth term representing California in the US senate, California\u2019s Democratic Party has declined to endorse the state\u2019s own senior senator in her re-election bid. Politico reported neither Feinstein nor her main opponent Kevin de Leon reached the 60-percent threshold required [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-349864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}