{"id":15657,"date":"2022-06-10T11:50:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T15:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=15657"},"modified":"2022-06-10T11:50:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T15:50:43","slug":"baker-navarro-suspend-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=15657","title":{"rendered":"Baker\/Navarro Suspend Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Prince George&#8217;s County Executive Rushern Baker and Montgomery Councilmember Nancy Navarro have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CountyExecBaker\/status\/1535269653102067717\">suspended their ticket&#8217;s campaign<\/a> for governor and lieutenant governor. While Baker was a major candidate for the Democratic nomination four years ago, his campaign just didn&#8217;t catch fire this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baker cited the financial challenges facing the campaign. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=15107\">Navarro, who has a comparatively<\/a> small political base in Montgomery and was unlikely to woo Latino voters and organizations away from Tom Perez&#8217;s campaign, didn&#8217;t hurt Baker&#8217;s campaign but also didn&#8217;t give it the additional lift it needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, this frees up Navarro to spend more time sparring with County Executive Marc Elrich, something that seems only likely to increase after <a href=\"https:\/\/bethesdamagazine.com\/bethesda-beat\/politics\/political-notes-blair-expands-paid-tv-ad-campaign-to-d-c-s-four-broadcast-stations\/\">their public clash<\/a> on &#8220;The Politics Hour with Kojo Nnamdi&#8221;  and Navarro&#8217;s endorsement of David Blair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though Baker&#8217;s campaign didn&#8217;t get far, I am sure that other campaigns would welcome the endorsement of this well-known and respected figure in what remains a fluid race. I&#8217;ve already received a statement from Wes Moore&#8217;s campaign praising Baker and I am sure others are to follow if they haven&#8217;t already been issued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Prince George&#8217;s County Executive Rushern Baker and Montgomery Councilmember Nancy Navarro have suspended their ticket&#8217;s campaign for governor and lieutenant governor. While Baker was a major candidate for the Democratic nomination four years ago, his campaign just didn&#8217;t catch fire this time. Baker cited the financial challenges facing the campaign. Navarro, who has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=15657\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Baker\/Navarro Suspend Campaign<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2438,309,176],"tags":[2522],"class_list":["post-15657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022-demcratic-primary","category-nancy-navarro","category-rushern-baker","tag-wes-moore"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-44x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15658,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657\/revisions\/15658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}