{"id":1997774,"date":"2023-08-11T12:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T16:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-democrat-backtracks-after-announcing-end-of-house-campaign-due-to-lack-of-joy\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T12:31:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T16:31:49","slug":"california-democrat-backtracks-after-announcing-end-of-house-campaign-due-to-lack-of-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-democrat-backtracks-after-announcing-end-of-house-campaign-due-to-lack-of-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"CA Democrat reverses decision to end House campaign citing &#8216;lack of joy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-democrat-backtracks-after-announcing-end-of-house-campaign-due-to-lack-of-joy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1997774&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>A Rollercoaster Announcement: Democrat&#8217;s Campaign Suspension<\/h2>\n<p>A California Democrat sent shockwaves \u200con Thursday when he declared the \u200bsuspension of\u200c his House campaign, citing a &#8220;lack of joy.&#8221; However, just hours\u200d later, he made a surprising \u200bU-turn, labeling the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-malaysian-troll-army-targeted-israelis-during-conflict-with-hamas\/\" title=\"Report: Malaysian \u2018Troll Army\u2019 Targeted Israelis During Conflict With Hamas\">initial message<\/a> as \u2062an \u200b&#8221;error.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m writing to announce \u200bthe\u200b suspension of my congressional campaign&#8230; The reason \u200dis simple: a lack of joy,&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Aditya Pai, an attorney and\u200c hopeful \u2063candidate in Orange \u200bCounty, \u2063expressed in an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daveweigel\/status\/1689780146234970112\">email<\/a> to \u200cmedia and supporters \u200cearly Thursday. But as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-banned-donald-trump-for-incitement-of-violence-but-cubas-dictator-still-has-a-twitter-account-despite-reports-of-killed-protesters\/\" title=\"Twitter Banned Donald Trump For \u2018Incitement Of Violence,\u2019 But Cuba\u2019s Dictator Still Has A Twitter Account Despite Reports Of Killed Protesters\">day progressed<\/a>, he sent another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emilybrooksnews\/status\/1689775850353233920\">email<\/a> clarifying that the campaign was still \u200cactive and the previous communication had been mistakenly sent by a former \u200daide.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I wrote \u2063that letter as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-democrat-backtracks-after-announcing-end-of-house-campaign-due-to-lack-of-joy\/\" title=\"CA Democrat reverses decision to end House campaign citing 'lack of joy'\">emotional processing\u200d exercise<\/a> after\u2064 an \u200cexhausting glimpse into the political\u2062 machine&#8230; It was never supposed to be\u200d shared.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pai emphasized \u200cin the second email.\u200b He firmly stated, &#8220;I\u2063 will absolutely NOT be suspending\u200c my campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4148381-aditya-pai-complete-campaign-reset-false-suspension-leak\/\">The Hill<\/a>, Pai revealed that he initiated a &#8220;complete reset&#8221; of \u2062his campaign after the erroneous announcement, resulting in\u2063 the\u2063 departure of nearly every staff member due\u2064 to \u200ba &#8220;misalignment \u2064of values.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pai, who\u2063 aims to &#8220;inspire public service&#8221; through his campaign, admitted that he did \u2063contemplate suspending his campaign because he wasn&#8217;t finding it enjoyable.<\/p>\n<h3>Seeking the Nomination<\/h3>\n<p>The Democrat is\u200b vying for his party&#8217;s \u200dnomination to run for California&#8217;s 45th Congressional District, currently represented by Republican Michelle Steel, who narrowly secured \u200cvictory in the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California Democrat suspended his House campaign, citing a &#8220;lack of joy.&#8221; Yet, he later retracted, labeling it an &#8220;error.&#8221; Aditya Pai, an attorney and congressional hopeful, initially announced the campaign&#8217;s suspension, stating the reason as a simple lack of joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2112,"featured_media":1997775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}