{"id":132329,"date":"2022-10-18T07:30:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=132329"},"modified":"2022-10-17T21:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T01:22:38","slug":"list-of-195-veterans-running-for-congress-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=132329","title":{"rendered":"List of 195 veterans running for Congress this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-108297 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/votes2-154x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/votes2-154x300.png 154w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/votes2-768x1494.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/votes2-171x333.png 171w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/votes2.png 848w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More vets are running this year than they have since 2012. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/election-2022\/2022\/10\/17\/a-full-list-of-the-195-veterans-running-for-congress-this-year\/?utm_source=sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=army-dnr\">Military Times<\/a> has the list;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than one-third of all congressional races on the ballot this November will feature a veteran, and several could help decide which party wins control of the House and Senate next year.<\/p>\n<p>The 196 veterans who have won major-party primaries represent the largest group of candidates with military experience in a decade. It includes 130 non-incumbents trying to increase the total number of veterans in Congress next year.<\/p>\n<p>The field also features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>17 women veterans running for office;<\/li>\n<li>58 veterans who enlisted after Jan. 1, 2000;<\/li>\n<li>95 veterans with a combat deployment;<\/li>\n<li>90 veterans who served in the Army (the most from any service);<\/li>\n<li>16 races featuring two veterans against each other;<\/li>\n<li>43 states with at least one veteran on the ballot for national office;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At the source is the full list. It looks like the ratio of GOP to DNC is 2:1 in favor of the Republicans. There are no veterans of WWII or Korea running, and only eight Vietnam Veterans in contention (4 Democrats and 4 Republicans).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More vets are running this year than they have since 2012. Military Times has the list; &hellip; <a title=\"List of 195 veterans running for Congress this year\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=132329\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">List of 195 veterans running for Congress this year<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[647,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022-elections","category-veterans-in-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}