{"id":351,"date":"2025-10-29T13:01:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/50statefeed.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2025-10-29T13:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:01:44","slug":"kentucky-shockwave-democrat-senator-defects-to-gop-in-coal-country-revolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/50statefeed.com\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"KENTUCKY SHOCKWAVE: DEMOCRAT SENATOR DEFECTS TO GOP IN COAL COUNTRY REVOLT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a stunning blow to Kentucky Democrats, State Senator Robin Webb has officially switched parties, leaving the Democrats to join the GOP after blasting her former party for abandoning working-class Americans. Representing eastern Kentucky\u2019s coal-mining region, Webb said the Democratic Party\u2019s \u201clurch to the left\u201d and \u201chostility toward rural livelihoods\u201d left her no choice but to walk away.<\/p>\n

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Her defection deepens the Democratic collapse in one of America\u2019s reddest states and strengthens GOP dominance in the legislature. Once a conservative Democrat bridging urban and rural voters, Webb now says she\u2019ll fight for \u201cfreedom, family, and opportunity\u201d alongside Republicans. The move underscores a national trend \u2014 longtime Democrats across rural America declaring, \u201cI didn\u2019t leave the party \u2014 the party left me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a stunning blow to Kentucky Democrats, State Senator Robin Webb has officially switched parties, leaving the Democrats to join the GOP after blasting her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/50statefeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/50statefeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/50statefeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/50statefeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/50statefeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/50statefeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/50statefeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/50statefeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/50statefeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/50statefeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}