{"id":379394,"date":"2022-11-09T18:46:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T08:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=379394"},"modified":"2022-11-09T18:46:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T08:46:50","slug":"breaking-news-sablan-staffler-team-endorses-palacios-apatang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/breaking-news-sablan-staffler-team-endorses-palacios-apatang\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Sablan-Staffler team endorses Palacios-Apatang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Party gubernatorial tandem of Rep. Christina E. Sablan (D-Saipan) and Rep. Leila Fleming Staffer (D-Saipan) has endorsed Lt. Gov. Arnold I. Palacios and his running mate, Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang, for the runoff election two weeks from now.<\/p>\n<p>The two, who have conceded their defeat in the 2022 general election, announced their endorsement of Palacios-Apatang during a press conference at the Democratic Party headquarters on Middle Road.<\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth Election Commission\u2019s unofficial tabulation results show Gov. Ralph DLG Torres and his running mate, Sen. Vinnie Vinson F. Sablan (R-Saipan), in first place with 5,726 votes, or 38.84% of the total votes cast, while Palacios and Apatang were in second place with 4,890 votes, or 33.16% of the total votes cast. Sablan and Staffler came in third after obtaining a total of 4,132 votes, or 28.02% of the total votes cast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Party gubernatorial tandem of Rep. Christina E. Sablan (D-Saipan) and Rep. Leila Fleming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":379295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1355,23795],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-election-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379394","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}