{"id":99120,"date":"2026-08-06T23:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/bernie-sanders-says-he-will-not-endorse-wisconsin-democratic-socialist-francesca-hong-she-seems-very-very-nice\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T23:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:44:11","slug":"bernie-sanders-says-he-will-not-endorse-wisconsin-democratic-socialist-francesca-hong-she-seems-very-very-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/bernie-sanders-says-he-will-not-endorse-wisconsin-democratic-socialist-francesca-hong-she-seems-very-very-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Says He Will Not Endorse Wisconsin Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong: &#8220;She Seems Very, Very Nice&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In an interview on &#8220;Pod Save America,&#8221; Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said he will not endorse Wisconsin Democratic Socialist gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>JON FAVREAU, HOST: I noticed you haven&#8217;t yet endorsed in the Wisconsin governor&#8217;s race. What&#8217;s your thinking there, and might you endorse?  SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: I don&#8217;t think so. I met Francesca a couple of years ago. I was in Wisconsin, and she seems very, very nice. But again, this is a race. I just am not that familiar with. We have not gotten involved in many governor&#8217;s races.  I think we did one in Maine with Troy Jackson. Obviously, my major concern right now is seeing that we have a Senate and a House that is gonna stand up to Trump. That&#8217;s really where my focus is. So as of now, we have not been involved in that race.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/08\/06\/bernie_sanders_says_he_will_not_endorse_wisconsin_democratic_socialist_francesca_hong_she_seems_very_very_nice.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview on &#8220;Pod Save America,&#8221; Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said he will not endorse Wisconsin Democratic Socialist gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong. JON FAVREAU, HOST: I noticed you haven&#8217;t yet endorsed in the Wisconsin governor&#8217;s race. What&#8217;s your thinking there, and might you endorse? SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: I don&#8217;t think so. I met Francesca [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7600,3216,11465,620,2762,16175,7601,194,22307,11148,1249,2208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}