{"id":149378,"date":"2018-01-28T23:01:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T04:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=149378"},"modified":"2018-01-28T23:01:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T04:01:13","slug":"pence-to-headline-fundraiser-at-trump-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/28\/pence-to-headline-fundraiser-at-trump-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence to headline fundraiser at Trump hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_111642\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111642\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1047283515.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-111642\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1047283515.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Mike Pence (PNA Photo)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1047283515.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1047283515-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-111642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Mike Pence (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Vice-President Mike Pence is headlining a fundraiser Monday at the Trump Hotel in Washington to benefit his leadership PAC to help Republican candidates in the 2018 mid-term elections.<\/p>\n<p>The fundraiser is expected to raise about $500,000 and Pence is expected to be introduced by Donald Trump Jr., the president&#8217;s son. That&#8217;s according to a person familiar with the planned fundraiser. The person was not authorized to speak publicly about the private event.<\/p>\n<p>The person said the event is expected to draw congressional leaders such as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>Pence&#8217;s Great America Committee was launched last year and has supported several Republican lawmakers. Pence will campaign in Pennsylvania on Friday on behalf of Rick Saccone, who is running in a special election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Vice-President Mike Pence is headlining a fundraiser Monday at the Trump Hotel in Washington to benefit his leadership &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":111642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16],"tags":[948,44992,24688],"class_list":["post-149378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","tag-fundraiser","tag-trump-hotel","tag-vice-president-mike-pence","mauthors-ken-thomas","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}