{"id":2306,"date":"2018-02-21T04:17:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/21\/dnc-on-todays-special-election-victory-in-kentucky\/"},"modified":"2018-02-21T04:17:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T04:17:00","slug":"dnc-on-todays-special-election-victory-in-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-todays-special-election-victory-in-kentucky\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC on Today\u2019s Special Election Victory in Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement on the results of&nbsp;today&rsquo;s&nbsp;special election in Kentucky, where Democrats flipped a seat in the state legislature. Democrats have now flipped&nbsp;37&nbsp;legislative seats from&nbsp;red to blue over the last year:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Congratulations to Representative-elect Linda Belcher on her victory in&nbsp;today&rsquo;s&nbsp;special election, which flipped yet another Republican-held seat from red to blue in a&nbsp;district&nbsp;that Trump won easily in 2016.&nbsp; Democrats are organizing, investing, and winning elections&nbsp;in red districts&nbsp;across&nbsp;the country as voters reject Donald Trump and&nbsp;the&nbsp;Republican&nbsp;agenda.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s good to have Linda back in the fight to build a brighter future for hardworking families across Kentucky. The DNC is proud to stand with Linda and the Kentucky Democratic Party, and we will continue working to elect Democrats up and down the ballot.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement on the results of&nbsp;today&rsquo;s&nbsp;special election in Kentucky, where Democrats flipped a seat in the state legislature. Democrats have now flipped&nbsp;37&nbsp;legislative seats from&nbsp;red to blue over the last year: &ldquo;Congratulations to Representative-elect Linda Belcher on her victory in&nbsp;today&rsquo;s&nbsp;special election, which flipped yet another Republican-held seat from red to <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC on Today\u2019s Special Election Victory in Kentucky - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-todays-special-election-victory-in-kentucky\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-02-21T04:17:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-todays-special-election-victory-in-kentucky\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-on-todays-special-election-victory-in-kentucky\/\",\"name\":\"DNC on Today\u2019s Special Election Victory in Kentucky - 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