{"id":26308,"date":"2023-06-20T17:15:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T21:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=26308"},"modified":"2023-06-20T17:15:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T21:15:43","slug":"nelsen-weighs-in-on-suarezs-bid-for-gop-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/nelsen-weighs-in-on-suarezs-bid-for-gop-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelsen weighs in on Suarez&#8217;s bid for GOP nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s Brent Nelsen, a politics and international affairs professor, spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2725&amp;DateTime=6%2F16%2F2023+4%3A08%3A16+PM&amp;Term=Furman&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">WYFF News 4<\/a> about Francis Suarez and his bid for the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election. Suarez, Cuban-born mayor of Miami, believes he can sway voters for the GOP. But Nelsen said it will be an uphill battle for the candidate. &#8220;H<span id=\"20\">e&#8217;s going to have\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"22\">to run in South Carolina like <\/span><span id=\"24\">any Republican,&#8221; he said. &#8220;H<\/span><span id=\"24\">e will have to energize the\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"28\">base. H<\/span><span id=\"29\">e will have to spend a lot of\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"30\">time in the Upstate, build some <\/span><span id=\"33\">of those bridges he talks about\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"35\">in Charleston and in that first <\/span><span id=\"37\">congressional district and try\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"39\">to make some headway there. B<\/span><span id=\"41\">ut I think it&#8217;s going to be <\/span><span id=\"43\">tough,&#8221; Nelsen added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Nelsen says it will be an uphill climb for Francis Suarez, the latest candidate to throw his hat in the GOP ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":26318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32,120],"tags":[1874,2131,1853],"class_list":["post-26308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-wyff-tv","tag-2024-presidential-election","tag-francis-suarez","tag-gop"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}