{"id":3719,"date":"2025-11-08T12:06:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T12:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/?p=3719"},"modified":"2025-11-08T12:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T12:07:18","slug":"sam-rasoul-an-american-born-palestinian-won-re-election-in-roanoke-with-nearly-70-of-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/2025\/11\/08\/sam-rasoul-an-american-born-palestinian-won-re-election-in-roanoke-with-nearly-70-of-the-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Rasoul, an American-born Palestinian, won re-election in Roanoke with nearly 70% of the vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Democratic Delegate Sam Rasoul, an American-born Palestinian, won re-election in Roanoke with nearly 70% of the vote, defying attacks over his criticism of Israel\u2019s war on Gaza. His independent challenger, who labeled him \u201cradical,\u201d failed to sway voters. Rasoul, first elected in 2014, campaigned on \u201cthe people\u2019s platform\u201d \u2014 focusing on affordable healthcare, education, and mental well-being. He called the victory \u201cvalidating,\u201d saying voters chose hope, service, and principle over fear and division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(From Roanoke Rambler)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"584\" src=\"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-34.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-34.png 320w, https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-34-164x300.png 164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"313\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-35.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-35.png 313w, https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-35-159x300.png 159w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Delegate Sam Rasoul, an American-born Palestinian, won re-election in Roanoke with nearly 70% of the vote, defying attacks over his criticism of Israel\u2019s war on Gaza. His independent challenger, who labeled him \u201cradical,\u201d failed to sway voters. Rasoul, first elected in 2014, campaigned on \u201cthe people\u2019s platform\u201d \u2014 focusing on affordable healthcare, education, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,10,16,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-international-news","category-news","category-opinion","category-science-it-ai-military-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3723,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions\/3723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}