{"id":23168,"date":"2026-02-02T17:33:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/?p=23168"},"modified":"2026-03-12T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:17:00","slug":"endorsement-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/endorsement-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Endorsement Process"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Attention Democrats!<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Santa Clara County Democratic Party has the sole authority to confer an official Democratic Party endorsement on Democrats running for nonpartisan office in local and county races and local and county ballot initiatives within Santa Clara County.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All endorsements are made in accordance with SCCDP bylaws, based on the adopted party platform, and include a \u201cno endorsement\u201d option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For details, follow <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"\/index.php\/endorsement-process\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">THIS LINK<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"\/index.php\/endorsement-process\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"851\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/candidate-endorsement-information.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/candidate-endorsement-information.png 851w, https:\/\/sccdp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/candidate-endorsement-information-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/sccdp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/candidate-endorsement-information-768x284.png 768w, https:\/\/sccdp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/candidate-endorsement-information-750x278.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention Democrats! The Santa Clara County Democratic Party has the sole authority to confer an official Democratic Party endorsement on Democrats running for nonpartisan office in local and county races and local and county ballot initiatives within Santa Clara County.&nbsp; All endorsements are made in accordance with SCCDP bylaws, based on the adopted party platform, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/endorsement-process\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"1","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","nodate","item-wrap"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":0,"today_views":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23169,"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23168\/revisions\/23169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sccdp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}