{"id":306198,"date":"2026-06-13T09:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/306198\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T09:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:17:09","slug":"several-races-across-tampa-bay-will-skip-augusts-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/306198\/","title":{"rendered":"Several races across Tampa Bay will skip August’s primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

The qualifying period for statewide offices ended Friday. <\/p>\n

We’ll soon know who the candidates will be on the Aug. 18 primary ballot. But several races go right to November.<\/p>\n

There will be no primaries in several county commission races.<\/p>\n

In Pinellas<\/a>, Republican Brian Scott<\/a> runs against Democrat Tim Hughes<\/a> for District 2, and Republican Kathleen Peters<\/a> faces Democrat David Glenn Jr<\/a>. for District 6. <\/p>\n

In Hillsborough, Democrat Harry Cohen<\/a> faces off against Republican Jackie Toledo.<\/a><\/p>\n

And in Pasco, Democrat Stephanie Vazquez<\/a> faces Republican Seth Weightman.<\/a><\/p>\n

In the state Senate, it’s Hillsborough Democrat Brian Nathan<\/a> against Republican Josie Tomkow<\/a>. That’s a repeat of the special election<\/a> Nathan won in March.<\/p>\n

And five area races for state representative also skip the primary and will be decided in November. You can find out those races by clicking HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The qualifying period for statewide offices ended Friday. We’ll soon know who the candidates will be on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-306198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306198","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=306198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}