{"id":44217,"date":"2026-11-09T13:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T18:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=44217"},"modified":"2026-11-09T13:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T18:17:15","slug":"brent-nelsen-wraps-midterm-elections-on-fox-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/brent-nelsen-wraps-midterm-elections-on-fox-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent Nelsen wraps midterm elections on FOX Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/brent-nelsen\/\">Brent Nelsen<\/a> joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/video\/2026\/11\/07\/depth-midterm-election-results-with-political-analyst\/\">FOX Carolina&#8217;s<\/a> Justin Dougherty following the midterm elections. Nelsen, the Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/politics-international-affairs\/\">Politics and International Affairs<\/a>, touched on the impact of the endorsement from President Donald Trump for Senate candidates and the &#8220;kitchen table issues&#8221; that drove voters to cast ballots for Democrats. Despite the &#8220;gigantic&#8221; shift in key races and down-ballot results, Nelsen said it&#8217;s too early to declare the end of the MAGA movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the midterm elections in the rearview mirror, Furman&#8217;s Brent Nelsen explains why Democrats nearly swept the board in national and down-ballot races. He goes in depth with FOX Carolina&#8217;s Justin Dougherty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":44218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44217","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=44217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44220,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44217\/revisions\/44220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}