{"id":52552,"date":"2024-08-13T15:12:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T22:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/how-progressive-are-silicon-valley-congressional-candidates\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T15:12:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T22:12:39","slug":"how-progressive-are-silicon-valley-congressional-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/how-progressive-are-silicon-valley-congressional-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"How progressive are Silicon Valley congressional candidates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Clara County\u2019s hottest congressional race may come down to which of two establishment Democrats can expand\u00a0their base and capture more young progressive voters. While former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo hasn\u2019t exactly branded himself a progressive, his opponent in the race for Congressional District 16, state Assemblymember Evan Low, has made some issues \u2014 such as LGBTQ+ rights \u2014 core to his image. But policing, housing, wealth inequality and calls for a\u00a0ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war are also top of mind for young voters in one of the nation\u2019s most consequential election cycles. San Jos\u00e9 Spotlight is taking a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/how-progressive-are-silicon-valley-congressional-district-16-candidates-evan-low-sam-liccardo-election-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Clara County\u2019s hottest congressional race may come down to which of two establishment Democrats can expand\u00a0their base and capture more young progressive voters. While former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo hasn\u2019t exactly branded himself a progressive, his opponent in the race for Congressional District 16, state Assemblymember Evan Low, has made some issues \u2014 &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":52553,"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-52552","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\/52552","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=52552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}