{"id":237718,"date":"2026-04-19T09:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T09:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237718\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T09:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T09:32:16","slug":"u-s-rep-byron-donalds-pitches-run-for-florida-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237718\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds pitches run for Florida governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENSACOLA, Fla. &#8212; The race to replace Governor DeSantis this fall is heating up. WEAR News sat down with U.S. Representative Byron Donalds.<\/p>\n<p>He is running for the Republican nomination in the race.<\/p>\n<p>We asked how he plans to stand out against the large field of fellow Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>02;08;15;54 &#8211; 02;08;36;16<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that the next governor of Florida has to have a business background and a finance background of how we put all the resources in our state to be in the most efficient position possible to address those concerns that veterans have,&#8221; Donalds said. &#8220;To address those concerns that a lot of our law enforcement officials have when they retire from the force and what the people of Florida are also thinking about as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Donalds currently represents most of southwest Florida in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>He previously served in the Florida House of Representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENSACOLA, Fla. &#8212; The race to replace Governor DeSantis this fall is heating up. WEAR News sat down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-237718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237718","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=237718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}