{"id":854,"date":"2021-03-31T13:25:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/news\/?p=854"},"modified":"2021-03-31T13:25:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:25:30","slug":"pelosi-trying-to-steal-gop-house-seat-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/2021\/03\/31\/pelosi-trying-to-steal-gop-house-seat-mccarthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi trying to steal GOP House seat &#8211; McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>United States House of Representatives Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (pictured) alleged on Wednesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is taking steps to &#8220;steal&#8221; a congressional seat won by Republican lawmaker Mariannette Miller-Meeks in Iowa&#8217;s 2nd congressional district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a contest against Democrat Rita Hart, Miller-Meeks won her district by a total of six votes in November 2020. Hart&#8217;s campaign claims that 22 &#8220;legally cast&#8221; votes in her favor were dismissed from the official count due &#8220;to election worker error.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The House Administration Committee, which consists of six Democrats and three Republicans, will examine the case with no official deadline to reach a decision. The panel may rule to dismiss the case or to recommend unseating Miller-Meeks and holding a new election to fill the House seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States House of Representatives Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (pictured) alleged on Wednesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is taking steps to &#8220;steal&#8221; a congressional seat won by Republican lawmaker Mariannette Miller-Meeks in Iowa&#8217;s 2nd congressional district. In a contest against Democrat Rita Hart, Miller-Meeks won her district by a total of six votes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}