{"id":14739,"date":"2026-08-13T21:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=14739"},"modified":"2026-08-13T21:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:07:14","slug":"wapos-rogin-claims-lefty-message-rising-despite-hongs-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wapos-rogin-claims-lefty-message-rising-despite-hongs-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo&#8217;s Rogin Claims Lefty Message Rising Despite Hong&#8217;s Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <em>Breitbart News<\/em>, <strong>Josh Rogin<\/strong>, who serves as Intelligence Lead Global Security Analyst at the Washington Post, made the comments during an appearance on CNN NewsNight on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Rogin contended that the real takeaway from the primary race was not that <strong>Francesca Hong<\/strong> lost, but rather how close she came to victory despite being what he described as a weak candidate with no establishment backing.<\/p>\n<p>Hong managed to secure 39 percent of the vote in Wisconsin, a state not typically seen as fertile ground for Democratic Socialists of America-aligned candidates. Rogin suggested that but for certain missteps in the final weeks of the campaign, she would have prevailed.<\/p>\n<p>The analyst claimed that Hong&#8217;s defeat was not a rejection of her progressive platform, but rather stemmed from voter concerns about her ability to win a general election. He framed the outcome as evidence that the progressive movement within the Democratic Party is gaining momentum even in purple states.<\/p>\n<p>Rogin urged Democrats to take notice that Hong came within half a percentage point of becoming the party&#8217;s gubernatorial nominee, arguing this demonstrates the rising influence of left-wing messaging within the party base.<\/p>\n<p>The primary results suggest that progressive candidates are making inroads beyond their traditional coastal strongholds, potentially complicating the Democratic Party&#8217;s efforts to maintain appeal with centrist voters in swing states ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Washington Post analyst argues that a progressive candidate&#8217;s narrow loss in Wisconsin&#8217;s Democratic primary shows growing far-left support in moderate battleground states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":14738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[2880,2610,10775,11575,2788,11576,4917],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-14739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cnn","tag-democratic-primary","tag-francesca-hong","tag-josh-rogin","tag-progressive-politics","tag-washington-post","tag-wisconsin","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14746,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14739\/revisions\/14746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14739"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=14739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}