{"id":11,"date":"2008-02-06T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2008-02-06T17:34:26","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T22:34:26","slug":"mccain-talks-to-jonathan-ahead-of-virginia-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"McCain talks to Jonathan ahead of Virginia primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/jonathanf.jpg\" alt=\"jonathanf.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Conservative Christian leaders in Virginia have been fairly quiet about the state&#8217;s presidential primaries Tuesday, but the Republican candidates haven&#8217;t forgotten them.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Jonathan Falwell told the Associated Press that he had talked with John McCain within the past 24 hours. Falwell said he wasn&#8217;t ready to endorse a candidate, but wanted to hear more from the Arizona senator on the issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I look forward to seeing what McCain&#8217;s plan is to unite the party,&#8221; Falwell said, &#8220;and to see what he has to say in the coming days on the social agenda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Falwell said he wanted to hear McCain&#8217;s ideas on national security, the economy and &#8220;how to protect human life and traditional marriage.&#8221; He also said he was interested in the Arizona senator&#8217;s ideas on Supreme Court nominees.<br \/>\n<!-- END topix links --><br \/>\nHis brother, Jerry Falwell Jr., endorsed Mike Huckabee in November when the former Arkansas governor visited Liberty University.<\/p>\n<p><em>Quotes from the Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative Christian leaders in Virginia have been fairly quiet about the state&#8217;s presidential primaries Tuesday, but the Republican candidates haven&#8217;t forgotten them. The Rev. Jonathan&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=11\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McCain talks to Jonathan ahead of Virginia primary<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/jonathanf.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}