{"id":376453,"date":"2026-08-20T11:24:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376453\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T11:24:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:24:39","slug":"fresh-off-gubernatorial-primary-wins-donalds-and-jolly-to-host-campaign-events-in-tampa-south-miami-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376453\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh off gubernatorial primary wins, Donalds and Jolly to host campaign events in Tampa, South Miami &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SOUTH MIAMI, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Fresh off their primary wins, the Florida gubernatorial candidates who will be facing off in November are set to attend campaign events in different parts of the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Republican Byron Donalds and Democrat David Jolly have hit the ground running after <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/politics\/florida-governors-race-takes-shape-as-gop-donalds-democrat-jolly-prepare-for-november\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">winning their respective parties\u2019 primaries<\/a> on Tuesday. Both men are now focusing on meeting with as many Floridians as they can<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday morning, Jolly is set to hold a breakfast meet-and-greet at the CasaCuba restaurant located in Southwest 73rd Street in South Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jolly, 53, will be joined by his running mate, attorney and former U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham. They said that they plan to have an inspiring conversation to move Florida forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jolly was the clear front-runner in his party in Tuesday\u2019s primary, securing around 61% of the votes. The former Republican\u2019s message focused heavily on Florida\u2019s affordability problems like housing, insurance and the cost of living.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donalds, meanwhile, won the Republican primary with roughly 48% of the votes, and he has the endorsement of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday evening, Donalds will also try to appeal to voters. The 47-year-old will be holding a unity rally in Tampa scheduled to begin at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donalds will be joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/politics\/gop-sen-ashley-moody-to-face-off-against-progressive-democratic-state-rep-angie-nixon-in-senate-race\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody<\/a> and Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia at the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for Jolly\u2019s event here at CasaCuba, it is expected to begin at around 7:30 a.m..<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH MIAMI, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; Fresh off their primary wins, the Florida gubernatorial candidates who will be facing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-376453","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\/376453","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=376453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}