{"id":47798,"date":"2024-03-05T22:13:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T06:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sweet-pascal.52-27-215-206.plesk.page\/san-jose-councilmember-trails-political-rival\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T22:13:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T06:13:36","slug":"san-jose-councilmember-trails-political-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/san-jose-councilmember-trails-political-rival\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose councilmember trails political rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A South San Jose councilmember who snagged a seat in a contentious appointment last year is fighting to stay in office \u2014 and now it appears he\u2019ll face challenger George Casey in November. As of 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, San Jose Councilmember Arjun Batra had secured 36.9% of the vote. Casey narrowly leads the incumbent with 38.2% of the vote. Candidate Lenka Wright trailed behind with 24.8% of the vote. About 9,833 ballots have been counted so far in District 10. The county\u2019s voter turnout is about 16%. Despite his struggle to finish first, Batra said Tuesday he feels optimistic.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/san-jose-councilmember-trails-political-rival\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South San Jose councilmember who snagged a seat in a contentious appointment last year is fighting to stay in office \u2014 and now it appears he\u2019ll face challenger George Casey in November. As of 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, San Jose Councilmember Arjun Batra had secured 36.9% of the vote. Casey narrowly leads the incumbent &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":47799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,82,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-society","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}