{"id":699874,"date":"2010-03-24T16:37:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T20:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=14921"},"modified":"2010-03-24T16:37:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T20:37:24","slug":"dan-senor-won%e2%80%99t-challenge-gillibrand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/699874","title":{"rendered":"Dan Senor Won\u2019t Challenge Gillibrand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Senor, the republican and former Bush administration official confirms today he will not run for the U.S. Senate seat currently occupied by Kathleen Gillibrand (D-NY).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;Over the past few weeks, I took a very serious look at running for the Senate seat in New York.&#8221; Said Senor, adding, &#8220;I ultimately decided this wasn\u2019t the right time in my family and business life for me to run.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Senor would have been an interesting candidate &#8211; \u00a0well spoken, media savvy and the name recognition necessary to raise some money.<\/p>\n<p>However Senor was a highly recognizable face of the tough early years of the Iraq war. From there he went on to work at a hedge fund, so there might have been plenty to attack there as well.<\/p>\n<p>Polls suggest that although Gillibrand enjoys the support of the White House and the democratic establishment, she would be vulnerable to a strong challenger.\u00a0 Yet, the GOP has had trouble attracting a high value candidate &#8211; \u00a0several potential candidates have considered a run before ultimately backing out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Senor, the republican and former Bush administration official confirms today he will not run for the U.S. Senate seat currently occupied by Kathleen Gillibrand (D-NY). \u00a0&#8220;Over the past few weeks, I took a very serious look at running for the Senate seat in New York.&#8221; Said Senor, adding, &#8220;I ultimately decided this wasn\u2019t the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2W4i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}