{"id":87475,"date":"2026-10-16T10:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87475"},"modified":"2026-10-16T10:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:09:11","slug":"demonic-stuff-kansas-gop-accuses-democrat-of-being-a-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/demonic-stuff-kansas-gop-accuses-democrat-of-being-a-witch\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Demonic Stuff&#8217;: Kansas GOP Accuses Democrat of Being a Witch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> The New Republic:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newrepublic.com\/dedc17e4adff9fdf05250b27a7dd99f26f50d199.jpeg?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;crop=faces&amp;q=65&amp;w=768&amp;ar=3%3A2&amp;ixlib=react-9.11.0\" alt=\"Kansas GOP gubernatorial candidate Ty Masterson flashes a big grin \" width=\"402\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Witch hunts are back in vogue with Kansas Republicans\u2014literally.<\/p>\n<p>Ty Masterson, the Republican candidate in the Kansas gubernatorial race, accused his Democratic opponent, Cindy Holscher, of being an actual witch capable of \u201cdemonic\u201d magic, while speaking at the Praise Chapel in Wichita on Sunday. \u201cGod\u2019s armies are out there in this,\u201d Masterson <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1W7bvfLCAMnlUgPI5for8mzlH9iNg8CUn\/view?pli=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cWhat we\u2019re fighting right now is a spiritual battle that I\u2019ve never seen before, in [this] state, in this politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New Republic: Witch hunts are back in vogue with Kansas Republicans\u2014literally. Ty Masterson, the Republican candidate in the.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87477,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87475\/revisions\/87477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}