{"id":758,"date":"2022-01-04T03:30:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T03:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/?p=758"},"modified":"2022-01-04T03:30:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T03:30:33","slug":"citing-maps-chase-will-end-race-for-virginias-7th-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/citing-maps-chase-will-end-race-for-virginias-7th-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Citing maps, Chase will end race for Virginia&#8217;s 7th District"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>RICHMOND, Va. (AP) \u2014 Conservative firebrand state Sen. Amanda Chase said Monday she is ending her bid for Congress, citing the impact of redistricting on Virginia&#8217;s legislative maps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chase had&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/richmond-gun-politics-virginia-house-elections-a66b581291812b437d7ca1862fe95332\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced&nbsp;<\/a>in November that she was joining the crowded race for the 7th Congressional District, which is currently represented by Democrat Abigail Spanberger. On Monday, she wrote in a letter addressed to supporters that since she no longer lives in the district, she plans to end her bid and finish the two years that remain in her Senate term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chase said she currently resides in the redrawn 1st Congressional District, but in her letter also ruled out a challenge against incumbent GOP U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/citing-maps-chase-end-race-002150231.html\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND, Va. (AP) &mdash; Conservative firebrand state Sen. Amanda Chase said Monday she is ending<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/citing-maps-chase-will-end-race-for-virginias-7th-district\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Citing maps, Chase will end race for Virginia&#8217;s 7th District<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/conservativecitizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}