{"id":5361,"date":"2025-09-15T17:28:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2025-09-15T17:28:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:28:49","slug":"progressive-tiktok-star-gets-crushed-in-election-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=5361","title":{"rendered":"Progressive TikTok \u2018Star\u2019 Gets Crushed In Election Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Arizona Blowout<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Progressive influencer Deja Foxx was crushed in Arizona\u2019s 7th Congressional District, losing by more than 40 points to Adelita Grijalva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Associated Press called the race with 65% of the vote counted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grijalva won 62%, while Foxx managed only 21%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dynasty vs. Social Media<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foxx, 25, leaned on her \u201clived experience\u201d and TikTok following, but it didn\u2019t connect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe lost by 40,\u201d one user on X noted, quoting Politico\u2019s earlier optimism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grijalva, backed by Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Arizona Democrats, had deep local roots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Foxx Responds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t be prouder of what we built together,\u201d Foxx said, calling her campaign a movement that \u201cshattered expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, her $670,000 fundraising and online strategy fell flat against Grijalva\u2019s name recognition and support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Grijalva\u2019s Victory Message<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a victory not for me, but for our community and the progressive movement my dad started more than 50 years ago,\u201d Grijalva said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Blowout Progressive influencer Deja Foxx was crushed in Arizona\u2019s 7th Congressional District, losing by more than 40 points to Adelita Grijalva. The Associated Press called the race with 65% of the vote counted: Grijalva won 62%, while Foxx managed only 21%. Dynasty vs. Social Media Foxx, 25, leaned on her \u201clived experience\u201d and TikTok&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5363,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions\/5363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}