{"id":161835,"date":"2026-02-19T22:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161835\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T22:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:56:12","slug":"louisiana-gov-jeff-landry-backs-byron-donalds-to-lead-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161835\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry backs Byron Donalds to lead Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

The MAGA movement falls in behind its chosen candidate.<\/p>\n

The endorsements keep coming in for\u00a0Byron Donalds\u2019<\/a>\u00a0campaign for Governor.<\/p>\n

The latest to roll out is from the MAGA Governor of another Southern state.<\/p>\n

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry<\/a> is endorsing the Congressman from Naples.<\/p>\n

\u201cI encourage all Floridians to get out and vote for Byron Donalds to be your next governor. I\u2019m proud to join President Trump in endorsing Byron Donalds because Byron will put affordability, public safety, and education at the forefront of his agenda to protect Florida\u2019s future,\u201d Landry said in a statement.<\/p>\n

A video message made similar points.<\/p>\n

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According to the campaign, \u201cLandry\u2019s endorsement follows Donalds\u2019 monster Q4 fundraising haul, high-profile endorsements, and polling showing him crushing current and potential Republican primary opponents and leading by wide margins against Democrat opponents. This shows Donalds\u2019 unmatched momentum as he dominates in the race for Florida Governor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Landry, a former state legislator, Congressman and state Attorney General, was President Donald Trump\u2019s pick in the 2022 election. The endorsement shows yet again the power of the MAGA movement, and its interstate impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MAGA movement falls in behind its chosen candidate. The endorsements keep coming in for\u00a0Byron Donalds\u2019\u00a0campaign for Governor.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7380,445,409,28,30,29,38298],"class_list":["post-161835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-2026-governors-race","tag-byron-donalds","tag-donald-trump","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-jeff-landry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161835","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=161835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}