{"id":364193,"date":"2022-03-15T06:04:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T20:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=364193"},"modified":"2022-03-15T06:04:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T20:04:20","slug":"palacios-torres-a-strong-candidate-but-cant-underestimate-sablan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/palacios-torres-a-strong-candidate-but-cant-underestimate-sablan\/","title":{"rendered":"Palacios: Torres a strong candidate, but can\u2019t underestimate Sablan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. Gov. Arnold I. Palacios said he can\u2019t underestimate either Gov. Ralph DLG Torres or Rep. Christina E. Sablan in this Nov. 8 gubernatorial election. <\/p>\n<p>When asked who he believes is his stronger opponent in the gubernatorial race Palacios said during an interview Friday that Torres is strong because of the Republican Party\u2019s organizational foundation. He said Sablan, who is the NMI Democratic Party\u2019s candidate for governor, has her strengths, too, so he and his running mate, Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang, are not taking anybody for granted.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_359954\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-359954\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Arnold-I-.-Palacios1-11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-359954\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-359954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palacios<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSo we\u2019re staying close on our campaign and staying focused,\u201d Palacios said.<\/p>\n<p>He said they are constantly working hard. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will give our best,\u201d said Palacios, who is a Republican but is running as an independent candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, Palacios and Apatang endorsed Ramon Blas \u201cRB\u201d Camacho\u2019s candidacy for Saipan mayor under their independent team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. Gov. Arnold I. Palacios said he can\u2019t underestimate either Gov. Ralph DLG Torres or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":357858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}