{"id":303036,"date":"2026-09-20T16:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T20:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=303036"},"modified":"2026-09-20T16:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T20:37:15","slug":"german-chancellor-merz-calls-state-election-a-disaster-for-his-party-but-vows-to-stay-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=303036","title":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Merz calls state election a &#8216;disaster&#8217; for his party but vows to stay on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exit polls show damaging losses for Merz&#8217;s centre-right CDU party in the states of Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvwyz29n0nn2o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> <span class=\"news_item\">Source: BBC News<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exit polls show damaging losses for Merz&#8217;s centre-right CDU party in the states of Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":303037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17884],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/303037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303036"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=303036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}