{"id":306192,"date":"2026-06-13T08:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T08:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/306192\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T08:57:10","slug":"maxwell-frost-secures-another-term-in-congress-unopposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/306192\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxwell Frost secures another term in Congress unopposed"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost won a third term in Congress Friday.<\/p>\n

Frost appears to be the only member of Florida\u2019s congressional delegation to essentially win in the 2026 Midterms without facing a named Primary or General Election opponent.<\/p>\n

It initially appeared he may face a write-in opponent, Brent Lawhon, but the candidate failed to qualify.<\/p>\n

Frost, an Orlando Democrat, thanked voters for the chance to serve.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud that the people of Central Florida continue to put their trust in me, and I don\u2019t take that for granted,\u201d Frost said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOver the last term, we\u2019ve delivered real results, and now it\u2019s time to build on that. Even though I am running unopposed, we\u2019re building our biggest and strongest campaign yet. We\u2019re focused on electing Democrats up and down the ballot. We\u2019ve already brought on 87 campaign fellows this summer to help us flip seats across Central Florida, defend our champions, and make sure our neighbors know their government is working for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frost first won his seat in 2022, stunning<\/a> the Democratic establishment in Orlando to win his party\u2019s nomination over a sitting state Senator and two former members of Congress. When he won the seat in November, he succeeded former U.S. Rep. Val Demings, who had stepped down to run for U.S. Senate<\/a> that year. Frost went on the win the same Democratic seat that November with 59% of the vote.<\/p>\n

Barely old enough to serve in Congress at the time, Frost at age 25, became the first Gen Z member<\/a> of the U.S. House.<\/p>\n

Now 29 years old, Frost has developed a national profile as a progressive voice frequently featured on cable news.<\/p>\n

While there was speculation this year he may be forced into the same congressional district as close ally U.S. Rep. Darren Soto, a Kissimmee Republican, a new map enacted by Gov. Ron DeSantis left the Central Florida Democrats vying for different seats.<\/p>\n

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Florida\u2019s 10th Congressional District, which Frost represents, remains a safe blue seat. More than 61% of voters there supported Democrat Kamala Harris for President in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost won a third term in Congress Friday. Frost appears to be the only member…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[128018,128019,28,30,29,128020,2223,25626],"class_list":["post-306192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-brent-lawhon","tag-cd-10","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-floridas-10th-congressional-district","tag-maxwell-frost","tag-val-demings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306192","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=306192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}