{"id":33530,"date":"2024-08-05T11:30:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T15:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=33530"},"modified":"2024-08-05T12:51:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T16:51:01","slug":"austin-weatherford-04-joins-the-kamala-harris-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/austin-weatherford-04-joins-the-kamala-harris-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Weatherford &#8217;04 joins the Kamala Harris campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Weatherford &#8217;04 was quoted in <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4809725-kamala-harris-campaign-gop-initiative-prominent-republican-voices\/\">The Hill<\/a> about his new job, recruiting prominent Republicans to vote for and support Vice President Kamala Harris. Weatherford is a long-time Republican congressional staffer. Weatherford&#8217;s comments were carried in stories by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-white-house-aide-stefanie-grisham-joins-kamala-in-republicans-for-harris-drive\">The Daily Beast<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/election-2024\/2024\/08\/05\/kamala-harris-republicans-donald-trump-pennsylvania\/stories\/202408040163\">The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/elections\/2024\/08\/republicans-for-harris-launches-aiming-for-biden-like-appeal-to-anti-trump-voters\/\">CNN<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/politics\/america-votes\/biden-campaign-taps-former-republican-staffer-to-head-outreach-to-gop-voters\">Scripps News,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/harris-campaigns-outreach-plan-republican-voters-rcna165040\">NBC News<\/a> and other news outlets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Weatherford &#8217;04, a longtime Republican congressional staffer, makes news after joining the Kamala Harris campaign. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":33531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,145,6,2926,2927],"tags":[270,245,2930],"class_list":["post-33530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-cnn","category-in-the-news","category-the-daily-beast","category-the-pittsburgh-post-gazette","tag-alumni","tag-politics","tag-presidential-election-2024"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33530","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\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33530"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33555,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33530\/revisions\/33555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}