{"id":243270,"date":"2026-04-10T07:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/243270\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T07:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:35:09","slug":"we-need-new-blood-texas-voters-look-for-leadership-changes-fresh-faces-this-election-year-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/243270\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We need new blood\u2019: Texas voters look for leadership changes, fresh faces this election year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some vocal Texas voters say they want to get rid of politicians who\u2019ve served the state for decades. Much of that sentiment can be boiled down to a preference for younger candidates with new energy \u2014 or even older ones who bulk long-held status quo.<\/p>\n

By Blaise Gainey, The Texas NewsroomApril 9, 2026\u00a02:05 pmGovernment & Politics<\/a>, The Texas Newsroom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some vocal Texas voters say they want to get rid of politicians who\u2019ve served the state for decades.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-243270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}