{"id":7726,"date":"2017-03-17T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7726"},"modified":"2017-03-16T20:07:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T00:07:34","slug":"trone-running-ads-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7726","title":{"rendered":"Trone Running Ads on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Seventh State reader sent us a screenshot of a Twitter ad run by Total Wine co-owner and former CD8 Congressional candidate David Trone in the early hours of March 16.\u00a0 The reader does not follow Trone\u2019s account and the term \u201cpromoted\u201d at the bottom of the screenshot clearly indicates its status as an ad.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7727\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trone-Twitter-ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trone-Twitter-ad.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trone-Twitter-ad-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trone is known to be considering a future candidacy.\u00a0 He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethesdamagazine.com\/Bethesda-Magazine\/March-April-2017\/The-Montgomery-County-Executive-Race\/\">told Bethesda Magazine\u2019s Lou Peck<\/a> that he is \u201cfocused very heavily right now\u201d on looking at a race for Montgomery County Executive.\u00a0 He has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7490\">polled on the race at least once<\/a> and says openly on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidtrone.com\/\">website<\/a> that he is exploring it.\u00a0 The Twitter ad joins this evidence to suggest that Trone could very well be on the ballot again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. A Seventh State reader sent us a screenshot of a Twitter ad run by Total Wine co-owner and former CD8 Congressional candidate David Trone in the early hours of March 16.\u00a0 The reader does not follow Trone\u2019s account and the term \u201cpromoted\u201d at the bottom of the screenshot clearly indicates its status &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=7726\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trone Running Ads on Twitter<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[1545,1778],"class_list":["post-7726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-david-trone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-20C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7726","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7729,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7726\/revisions\/7729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}