{"id":1177789,"date":"2022-11-08T22:51:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T04:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1177789"},"modified":"2022-11-09T23:59:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T05:59:17","slug":"election-day-in-east-texas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1177789","title":{"rendered":"Election Day in East Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/voting-computer-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1177790\" \/>EAST TEXAS &#8212; Voters in East Texas joined numerous others in hitting the polls for Tuesday&#8217;s midterm elections. One top issue: deciding on a proposed new courthouse for Smith County, and voters ruled in favor of that proposition. There was also a race to determine the successor to Congressman Louie Gohmert, with Republican Nathaniel Moran handily defeating Democrat Jrmar Jefferson. And Republican District 6 state Representative Matt Schaefer easily overcame a challenge from Democrat Cody Grace. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smith-county.com\/government\/departments\/elections\/current-election-information\/current-election-results\/-folder-935\">here<\/a> for the election results in Smith County.  Check <a href=\"https:\/\/results.enr.clarityelections.com\/TX\/Gregg\/115637\/web.303253\/#\/summary\">this link<\/a> for Gregg County&#8217;s results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8212; Voters in East Texas joined numerous others in hitting the polls for Tuesday&#8217;s midterm elections. One top issue: deciding on a proposed new courthouse for Smith County, and voters ruled in favor of that proposition. There was also a race to determine the successor to Congressman Louie Gohmert, with Republican Nathaniel Moran &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1177789\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Election Day in East Texas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1177796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/voting-computer-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Election Day in East Texas","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 06:06:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/voting-computer-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Election Day in East Texas","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1177789"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178142,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177789\/revisions\/1178142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1177796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1177789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1177789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1177789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}