{"id":5874,"date":"2026-01-20T21:17:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=5874"},"modified":"2026-01-20T21:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:17:35","slug":"fractures-are-starting-to-show-in-trumps-gop-at-the-start-of-this-election-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/20\/fractures-are-starting-to-show-in-trumps-gop-at-the-start-of-this-election-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Fractures are starting to show in Trump\u2019s GOP at the start of this election year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Republican Party is experiencing internal division as it enters a midterm election year under Donald Trump\u2019s continued influence. A significant group of House Republicans defied party leadership by joining Democrats to pass a bill extending Affordable Care Act subsidies. Meanwhile, Trump\u2019s foreign policy focus has shifted toward renewed interests in Greenland and a hardline stance on Venezuela, which has sparked varied reactions within his own party. These fractures highlight a growing tension between Trump\u2019s loyal base and GOP members seeking bipartisan compromises on domestic issues like healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 10, 2026. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/republicans-split-trump-midterms-obamacare-venezuela-greenland-bafc2793a8d78d530ac424532e426283\">apnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party is experiencing internal division as it enters a midterm election year under Donald Trump\u2019s continued influence. A significant group of House Republicans defied party leadership by joining Democrats to pass a bill extending Affordable Care Act subsidies. Meanwhile, Trump\u2019s foreign policy focus has shifted toward renewed interests in Greenland and a hardline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":5880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eroding-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6014,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874\/revisions\/6014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}