{"id":247395,"date":"2020-12-17T09:20:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T09:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/live-updates-bidens-transition-team-deletes-old-ad-criticizing-his-transportation-secretary-pick-buttigieg.html"},"modified":"2020-12-17T09:20:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T09:20:31","slug":"live-updates-bidens-transition-team-deletes-old-ad-criticizing-his-transportation-secretary-pick-buttigieg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/live-updates-bidens-transition-team-deletes-old-ad-criticizing-his-transportation-secretary-pick-buttigieg.html","title":{"rendered":"LIVE UPDATES: Biden&#8217;s transition team deletes old ad criticizing his transportation secretary pick Buttigieg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/29027_image.jpg\" alt=\"Biden tells Fox News he is 'confident' son Hunter did nothing wrong\" \/><span class=\"overlay\">Video<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Biden tells Fox News he is &#8216;confident&#8217; son Hunter did nothing wrong<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy joins &#8216;Special Report&#8217; with the latest from Wilmington, Del.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">President-elect\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Joe Biden\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0transition team has deleted an ad from earlier this year hammering\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Pete Buttigieg<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0lack of experience after Biden chose the former mayor to serve as transportation secretary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Biden\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">announced his pick Tuesday,<\/a>\u00a0calling the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., a &#8220;leader, patriot, and problem-solver.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He speaks to the best of who we are as a nation,&#8221; Biden wrote on Twitter Tuesday. &#8220;I am nominating him for Secretary of Transportation because he&#8217;s equipped to take on the challenges at the intersection of jobs, infrastructure, equity, and climate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<section class=\"summary\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">FAST FACTS<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<p>The ad was published Feb. 8, but has since been deleted. It mocks Buttigieg for having handled only small-scale projects like minor infrastructure repairs and pet-chip scanners.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Follow below for more updates on the Biden transition. Mobile users click <a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.foxnews.com\/~r\/foxnews\/politics\/~3\/OkizBmiIJmk\/live-updates-biden-transition-12-17-2020<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video Biden tells Fox News he is &#8216;confident&#8217; son Hunter did nothing wrong Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy joins &#8216;Special Report&#8217; with the latest from Wilmington, Del. President-elect\u00a0Joe Biden\u2019s\u00a0transition team has deleted an ad from earlier this year hammering\u00a0Pete Buttigieg&#8216;s\u00a0lack of experience after Biden chose the former mayor to serve as transportation secretary.\u00a0 Biden\u00a0announced his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-247395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}