{"id":140711,"date":"2025-01-03T00:18:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T00:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=140711"},"modified":"2025-01-03T00:18:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T00:18:53","slug":"ex-rep-riggleman-mulls-independent-run-for-va-governor-lt-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=140711","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ex-Rep. Riggleman mulls independent run for Va. governor, lt. governor&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2025\/01\/01\/denver-riggleman-virginia-governor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Former Republican congressman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginia-politics\/denver-riggleman-bigfoot-qanon\/2020\/11\/26\/d8de7274-2dbf-11eb-bae0-50bb17126614_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_2&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Denver Riggleman<\/a>, who broke with his party over the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/january-6-capitol-riot\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jan. 6, 2021,<\/a>\u00a0insurrection, is exploring an independent bid for Virginia governor or lieutenant governor thisyear, a move that could also put him at odds with the lone Democrat in the race, outgoing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2024\/12\/26\/spanberger-virginia-governor-democrats-trump\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rep. Abigail Spanberger<\/a>, whom he endorsed two years ago for Congress.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Former Republican congressman\u00a0Denver Riggleman, who broke with his party over the\u00a0Jan. 6, 2021,\u00a0insurrection, is exploring an independent bid for Virginia governor or lieutenant governor thisyear, a move that could also put him at odds with the lone Democrat in the race, outgoing\u00a0Rep. Abigail Spanberger, whom he endorsed two years ago for Congress.&#8221;<\/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-140711","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\/140711","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=140711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140712,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140711\/revisions\/140712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}