{"id":32747,"date":"2016-03-01T17:40:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T21:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32747"},"modified":"2016-03-01T17:40:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T21:40:15","slug":"need-to-know-ben-sasse-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=32747","title":{"rendered":"Need to Know: Ben Sasse for President?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->RICHOCHET<\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe not this year, but someday, it could well happen. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BenSasse?\" target=\"_blank\">Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska<\/a>, is, after all, one of the new stars in the conservative firmament.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-315412\" src=\"http:\/\/7373-presscdn-0-43-pagely.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/D7idMyaS-330x330.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/7373-presscdn-0-43-pagely.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/D7idMyaS-960x960.jpeg 960w, http:\/\/7373-presscdn-0-43-pagely.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/D7idMyaS-330x330.jpeg 330w, http:\/\/7373-presscdn-0-43-pagely.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/D7idMyaS-768x768.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/7373-presscdn-0-43-pagely.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/D7idMyaS-640x640.jpeg 640w, http:\/\/7373-presscdn-0-43-pagely.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/D7idMyaS-60x60.jpeg 60w, http:\/\/7373-presscdn-0-43-pagely.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/D7idMyaS-192x192.jpeg 192w, http:\/\/7373-presscdn-0-43-pagely.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/D7idMyaS-800x800.jpeg 800w, http:\/\/7373-presscdn-0-43-pagely.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/D7idMyaS.jpeg 1400w\" alt=\"D7idMyaS\" width=\"163\" height=\"163\" \/>He joins <em>Need to Know<\/em> this week to talk about the coming battle over Justice Scalia\u2019s replacement, the state of the Republican Party (and the party system in general), and across-the-aisle comity, among other topics.<\/p>\n<p>Jay and Mona then speak of Cuba and President Obama\u2019s upcoming visit, the continuing drama of Trump, a few words about Michael Bloomberg and the possibility of a subway presidential race (Sanders, Trump, and Bloomberg would represent Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan), the Iraq War, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/media\/need-know\/need-know-ben-sasse-president\">http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/media\/need-know\/need-know-ben-sasse-president<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}