{"id":137850,"date":"2026-01-30T17:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/137850\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T17:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:22:11","slug":"jennifer-jenkins-drops-out-of-florida-senate-race-endorses-alex-vindman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/137850\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Jenkins drops out of Florida Senate race, endorses Alex Vindman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Brevard County School Board member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/florida-jennifer-jenkins-democrat-brevard-county-ashley-moody-2026-election\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Jenkins<\/a> on Thursday dropped her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/democratic-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Democratic<\/a> bid for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/united-states-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">U.S. Senate<\/a>, two days after retired\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/alex-vindman-testified-against-trump-first-impeachment-florida-senate\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Army Lt. Col. Alex Vindman entered the race<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Florida<\/a> is too important to stay divided, which is why I have decided to step aside and proudly endorse @AVindman for U.S. Senate,&#8221; Jenkins said in a post on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins&#8217; exit leaves Vindman and state Rep. Angie Nixon, D-Jacksonville, to compete for the Democratic nomination to run against<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/who-is-ashley-moody-everything-to-know-desantis-pick-replace-marco-rubio-senate\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody, R-Fla<\/a>. Vindman drew widespread attention when he testified in 2019 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/vindman-and-williams-impeachment-hearing-key-moments-in-4-minutes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\">President Donald Trump&#8217;s first impeachment trial<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vindman testified that while on the National Security Council he witnessed Trump on a call attempt to pressure Ukrainian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/volodymyr-zelensky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> to investigate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Joe Biden<\/a> and his son. Vindman&#8217;s twin brother, Eugene, was elected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/united-states-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Congress<\/a> in 2024 representing Virginia&#8217;s 7th congressional district. Jenkins entered the Senate race in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Brevard County School Board member Jennifer Jenkins on Thursday dropped her Democratic bid for the U.S. Senate,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67241,1812,409,28,30,29,4215,67240,5325,99,32932,34990,35736],"class_list":{"0":"post-137850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-alexander-vindman","9":"tag-democratic-party","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-headlines","13":"tag-florida-news","14":"tag-florida-senate","15":"tag-impeachment-of-donald-trump","16":"tag-joe-biden","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-united-states-congress","19":"tag-united-states-senate","20":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}