{"id":349127,"date":"2026-07-22T22:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349127\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T22:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:12:10","slug":"floridas-7th-congressional-democratic-primary-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349127\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida&#8217;s 7th Congressional Democratic Primary Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida&#8217;s 7th Congressional Democratic Primary Debate<\/p>\n<p>The Commitment 2026 primary debate series continues with the Democratic primary race for Florida&#8217;s 7th congressional district.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784758330_815_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The Commitment 2026 primary debate series continues with the Democratic primary race for Florida&#8217;s 7th congressional district.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">&gt;&gt;Watch the debate above<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">This district covers all of Seminole County and part of Volusia County The Democratic candidates for this debate are Bale Dalton, Alan Grayson and Marialana Kinter. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Candidates were asked about their views on senior citizen benefits, such as social security and Medicaid, as well as veteran benefits. They discussed affordability on housing and changing minimum wage. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Moderated by political reporter Greg Fox, this debate is part of an ongoing series of debates that will focus on the primary and general races across the nine districts that WESH 2 covers. The debates will appear in their entirety at WESH.com with portions airing in WESH 2 newscasts and social media posts ahead of the Nov. 3 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida&#8217;s 7th Congressional Democratic Primary Debate The Commitment 2026 primary debate series continues with the Democratic primary race&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[109541,116019,127972,25406,30462,95221,4009,2715,28,30,29,1644,138527,3574,14126,99,20772,29143,2261,918],"class_list":["post-349127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-alan-grayson","tag-aligncenter","tag-bale-dalton","tag-com","tag-debate","tag-democratic-candidate","tag-district","tag-elections","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-housing","tag-newscast","tag-part","tag-policy","tag-politics","tag-portion","tag-social-medium-post","tag-volusia-county","tag-wesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349127","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=349127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}