{"id":337282,"date":"2015-03-27T02:01:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T07:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=337282"},"modified":"2015-03-28T04:50:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T09:50:26","slug":"gohmet-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=337282","title":{"rendered":"Gohmert for President?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/03\/Louie-Gohmert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/03\/Louie-Gohmert.jpg\" alt=\"Louie Gohmert\" width=\"96\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-337283\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Could there be a run for the White House in Congressman Louie Gohmert\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future? KETK reports The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper, asked Gohmert if he would endorse Ted Cruz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s presidential bid. The Tyler Congressman told the paper, &#8220;Ted is a good friend and would be an outstanding president; however, I haven&#8217;t ruled out an exploratory committee myself.&#8221; Later Thursday, an aide told the Texas Tribune that Gohmert was not entirely serious. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Washington D.C. contains too many who do not recognize statements made with a figurative tongue in cheek, sometimes known as being ironic,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the aide emailed to the Texas Tribune. Earlier this year, Gohmert went up against House Speaker John Boehner. Gohmert received only three votes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Could there be a run for the White House in Congressman Louie Gohmert\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future? KETK reports The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper, asked Gohmert if he would endorse Ted Cruz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s presidential bid. The Tyler Congressman told the paper, &#8220;Ted is a good friend and would be an outstanding president; however, I haven&#8217;t ruled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=337282\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gohmert for President?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-14 17:07:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337282","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337282"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337505,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337282\/revisions\/337505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}