{"id":374966,"date":"2026-08-18T21:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374966\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T21:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:04:09","slug":"primary-election-day-brings-mixed-energy-to-tampa-bay-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374966\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Election Day Brings Mixed Energy to Tampa Bay Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean voters aren&#8217;t concerned about local issues, he added, noting that affordability, property values, insurance and housing all remain important to St. Petersburg voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe economy is probably the biggest issue,\u201d Mallory said. \u201cSt. Pete is not very affordable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jameka Williams, another District 6 candidate, offered a more upbeat view of the campaign&#8217;s final hours. She said supporters had been approaching her and telling her they were pulling for her.<\/p>\n<p>For Williams, the election has also been notable for what she described as a positive campaign experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been such a nice clean race full of integrity from all the candidates, who respected each other along the way,\u201d she said. \u201cSo I&#8217;m just so grateful for this opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That doesn&#8217;t mean voters aren&#8217;t concerned about local issues, he added, noting that affordability, property values, insurance and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-374966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374966","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=374966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}