{"id":2223,"date":"2015-10-25T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/kasich-first-on-republican-ballot\/"},"modified":"2015-10-25T08:02:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T15:02:00","slug":"kasich-first-on-republican-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/kasich-first-on-republican-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Kasich first on Republican ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"
John Kasich, Ohio\u2019s governor and a Republican candidate to become president, has become the first person to file for the Republican primary in Alaska.<\/p>\n
The news was announced in an email Friday by the Alaska Republican Party.<\/p>\n
Alaska Republicans select their choice to become president in a March 1 poll.<\/p>\n
Alaska has 28 delegates to the Republican National Convention \u2014 held July 18-21 in Cleveland \u2014 and those delegates are allocated to candidates proportionally by the results of the poll.<\/p>\n
The people chosen to represent Alaska at the national convention will be picked at the state Republican convention April 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"