{"id":98871,"date":"2019-11-21T05:22:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T13:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/transhumanist-zoltan-istvan-joins-presidential-race-as-a-new-type-of-republican"},"modified":"2019-11-21T05:22:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T13:22:48","slug":"transhumanist-zoltan-istvan-joins-presidential-race-as-a-new-type-of-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/transhumanist-zoltan-istvan-joins-presidential-race-as-a-new-type-of-republican","title":{"rendered":"Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan joins presidential race as \u2018a new type of Republican\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/transhumanist-zoltan-istvan-joins-presidential-race-as-a-new-type-of-republican3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is there room for one more in the 2020 presidential race? Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan has declared he\u2019s running for the White House as a Republican, complete with the campaign motto \u201cUpgrading America\u201d \u2014 a task he believes can be accomplished through futuristic technology and science.<\/p>\n<p>One new press report describes him as \u201cthe cyborg who is running against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/zoltan-istvan\/\">Mr. Istvan<\/a> appears ready.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy team and I are ready to really push hard, get on primary ballots, and see if we can get conservatives to be more open-minded about the future. We\u2019re excited that they will open up so that the far-left doesn\u2019t totally own radical science and tech in the future. We think we can be instrumental in getting to GOP and libertarian conservatives to broaden their perspectives about these things,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/zoltan-istvan\/\">Mr. Istvan<\/a> told The Washington Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there room for one more in the 2020 presidential race? Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan has declared he\u2019s running for the White House as a Republican, complete with the campaign motto \u201cUpgrading America\u201d \u2014 a task he believes can be accomplished through futuristic technology and science. One new press report describes him as \u201cthe cyborg who [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,5,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-geopolitics","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}