{"id":102054,"date":"2022-09-19T16:58:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T16:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=102054"},"modified":"2022-09-19T16:58:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T16:58:13","slug":"bill-clinton-says-democrats-can-absolutely-beat-psychically-intolerant-republicans-in-the-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=102054","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bill Clinton says Democrats can &#8216;absolutely&#8217; beat &#8216;psychically intolerant&#8217; Republicans in the midterms&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2022\/09\/bill-clinton-democrats-republicans-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\">AlterNet<\/a>: &#8220;Former President Bill Clinton told CNN&#8217;s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday that he believes that President Joe Biden and the Democrats can &#8220;absolutely&#8221; buck the historical trend of the opposition party making substantial congressional gains in the midterm elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We could hold both these houses. But we have to say the right things,&#8221; Clinton said of the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, in which the Democratic Party has razor-thin majorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;And we have to note, the Republicans always close well. Why? Because they find some new way to scare the living daylights out of swing voters about something. That&#8217;s what they did in 2021 when they made critical race theory sound worse than smallpox, and it wasn&#8217;t being taught in any public schools in America. They didn&#8217;t care. They just scare people. And at the end, the breakpoint in American politics is not much different than it was in the &#8217;90s, that is, you still have to get those people,&#8221; Clinton continued.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AlterNet: &#8220;Former President Bill Clinton told CNN&#8217;s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday that he believes that President Joe Biden and the Democrats can &#8220;absolutely&#8221; buck the historical trend of the opposition party making substantial congressional gains in the midterm elections. &#8220;We could hold both these houses. But we have to say the right things,&#8221; Clinton said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102055,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102054\/revisions\/102055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}