{"id":53686,"date":"2017-04-25T02:17:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53686"},"modified":"2017-04-25T02:17:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:17:23","slug":"a-young-latino-arab-american-throws-his-hat-in-congressional-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53686","title":{"rendered":"A Young Latino Arab American Throws His Hat in Congressional Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/young-latino-arab-american-throws-his-hat-congressional-ring-n748881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>A Young Latino Arab American Throws His Hat in Congressional Ring<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a><br \/>\n2017-04-20<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brian-latimer-81945939\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Brian Latimer<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Producer<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"452\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/young-latino-arab-american-throws-his-hat-congressional-ring-n748881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media1.s-nbcnews.com\/j\/newscms\/2017_16\/1971171\/anj_2a81362bc703abc7ac63cbb35b9c2b06.nbcnews-ux-600-700.jpg\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACampaNajjar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ammar Campa-Najjar<\/a>, 28, of Latino and Palestinian descent hopes he can unseat a long-term Republican representative in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California%27s_50th_congressional_district\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California&#8217;s District 50<\/a>. <em>Courtsey of Ammar Campa-Najjar<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>A young, American-born man of Latino and Arab heritage decided to throw his hat in the political ring after working as a community activist and in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Presidency_of_Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Obama administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACampaNajjar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ammar Campa-Najjar<\/a>, 28, announced his candidacy Thursday in the hopes of unseating a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Duncan_D._Hunter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long-term Republican representative<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California%27s_50th_congressional_district\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California&#8217;s District 50<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Campa-Najjar is the fifth Democrat entering a crowded battlefield that includes Josh Butner, Pierre &#8220;Pete&#8221; Beauregard, Patrick Malloy and Gloria Chadwick. He hopes his experience as a community organizer during former <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pres. Barack Obama&#8217;s<\/a> second presidential campaign will give him an advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Campa-Najjar, whose mother is Mexican American and whose father is Palestinian American, says he spent a lot of time speaking to Hispanic voters in his district to get them to the polls. In 2012, the district voted for Obama, but four years later did not show support for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hillary_Clinton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/young-latino-arab-american-throws-his-hat-congressional-ring-n748881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young, American-born man of Latino and Arab heritage decided to throw his hat in the political ring after working as a community activist and in the Obama administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14646,8,26,20],"tags":[26890,26891,455,15127],"class_list":["post-53686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-ammar-campa-najjar","tag-brian-latimer","tag-california","tag-nbc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53687,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53686\/revisions\/53687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}