{"id":726889,"date":"2018-07-06T05:44:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T10:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=726889"},"modified":"2018-07-08T08:02:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T13:02:01","slug":"cruz-campaigns-in-longview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=726889","title":{"rendered":"Cruz Campaigns in East Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/07\/tedcruz-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-726890\" \/>EAST TEXAS &#8212; Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz made campaign stops in Tyler and Longview Thursday.  One big difference between Cruz and Democratic opponent Beto O&#8217;Rourke: immigration policy.  Cruz told our news partner KETK, &#8220;There is no race in the country on which there is a starker divide than this Senate race.  In my entire six years in the Senate, I have been the leading defender of securing the border and building a wall.&#8221;  O&#8217;Rourke advocates for no border wall and a new policy.  Cruz leads O&#8217;Rourke by about eight points according to a recent poll from RealClear Politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS &#8212; Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz made campaign stops in Tyler and Longview Thursday. One big difference between Cruz and Democratic opponent Beto O&#8217;Rourke: immigration policy. Cruz told our news partner KETK, &#8220;There is no race in the country on which there is a starker divide than this Senate race. In my entire &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=726889\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cruz Campaigns in East Texas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":726890,"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-726889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 21:53:17","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\/726889","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=726889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726911,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726889\/revisions\/726911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/726890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}