{"id":252994,"date":"2026-04-30T21:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/252994\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T21:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:07:08","slug":"congressman-brian-mast-launches-re-election-bid-for-district-21-newsradio-wiod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/252994\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Brian Mast Launches Re-election Bid For District 21 | NewsRadio WIOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican Congressman from Florida&#8217;s Treasure Coast kciks off his re-election campaign, just as the Legislature approves a newly redrawn <a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/69a85aceed7847d295f78f1c44baff64\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Congressional map<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Representative Brian Mast serves in District 21, covering portions of northern Palm Beach County, along with Martin and St. Lucie counties.  <\/p>\n<p>The new map doesn&#8217;t bring any noticeable changes to the GOP-heavy district, where Mast won his last re-election bid by nearly 24 points. President Trump won in District 21 by over 16 points.<\/p>\n<p>In his announcement, Mast writes that he will never stop fighting for clean water, his fellow veterans and families who call the community home.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a wounded Army veteran who has been in the House since 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Republican Congressman from Florida&#8217;s Treasure Coast kciks off his re-election campaign, just as the Legislature approves a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[85000,23311,23307,84998,84996,115,171,173,172,84997,807,84999,729,221],"class_list":["post-252994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-clear-channel-miami","tag-coast-to-coast","tag-glenn-beck","tag-hannity","tag-jimmy-cefalo","tag-news","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-schnitt","tag-south-florida","tag-the-weather-channel-wall-street-journal","tag-traffic","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252994","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=252994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}