{"id":205345,"date":"2026-03-25T11:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205345\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:43:10","slug":"dems-flip-florida-seat-in-trumps-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205345\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems flip Florida seat in Trump&#8217;s backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"28\">Democrat Emily Gregory yesterday won a special election for the Florida state House district that includes Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago resort, flipping the seat from Republican control, The Associated Press projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"2b\">Gregory beat Republican Jon Maples, whom Trump endorsed, in the race for a seat that has been vacant since August, when Mike Caruso resigned from the Legislature and was appointed Palm Beach County clerk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"2e\">Democrats have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2026-election\/democrats-flipped-9-seats-state-legislative-special-elections-trump-rcna261633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">performed well in special elections<\/a>\u00a0during Trump\u2019s second term, with the party pointing to those results as a sign of strength ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Florida\u2019s 87th District is the 10th GOP-held state legislative seat Democrats have flipped around the country since Trump took office again last year. Republicans have not flipped any Democratic state legislative seats during that time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"2h\">Trump carried this Florida legislative district by about 11 percentage points in 2024, according to The Downballot, a left-leaning political site that tracks special elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"2k\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/elections\/democrat-flips-republican-florida-house-seat-includes-trump-mar-lago-rcna264660\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democrat Emily Gregory yesterday won a special election for the Florida state House district that includes Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-205345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205345","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=205345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}