{"id":529,"date":"2025-09-03T17:56:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/?p=529"},"modified":"2025-09-03T17:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:56:33","slug":"wbaltv-ed-hale-announces-republican-candidacy-for-maryland-governor-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/news\/2025\/09\/wbaltv-ed-hale-announces-republican-candidacy-for-maryland-governor-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"WBALTV: Ed Hale announces Republican candidacy for Maryland governor in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong class=\"dateline\">BALTIMORE \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ed Hale, a lifelong Democrat, already said he intends to run for governor next year.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he is switching parties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m here to announce that I&#8217;m going to run for governor as a Republican,&#8221; Hale announced Wednesday morning at the Canton Waterfront Park, where he started a trucking business in 1975.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/article\/ed-hale-maryland-governor-republican-candidate-2026\/65831811\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE \u2014 Ed Hale, a lifelong Democrat, already said he intends to run for governor next year. Now, he is switching parties. &#8220;I&#8217;m here to announce that I&#8217;m going to run for governor as a Republican,&#8221; Hale announced Wednesday morning at the Canton Waterfront Park, where he started a trucking business in 1975. Read more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hale.zestsms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}