{"id":376865,"date":"2026-08-20T20:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376865\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T20:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:30:10","slug":"dan-green-wins-crowded-gop-primary-in-floridas-9th-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376865\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Green wins crowded GOP primary in Florida&#8217;s 9th District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Green narrowly won a crowded GOP primary in Florida&#8217;s 9th Congressional District, the Associated Press projected Thursday, two days after the election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Green will face Democratic Rep. Darren Soto, who has held the central Florida seat since 2017 but is facing a tough reelection bid after gerrymandering reshaped the district. Soto&#8217;s district, which had been protected under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/florida-redistricting-vote-ron-destantis-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">one of four in the state that were redrawn to favor Republicans<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The University of Virginia&#8217;s Center for Politics <a href=\"https:\/\/centerforpolitics.org\/crystalball\/2026-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">rates<\/a> the race as likely Republican.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Seven candidates were vying for the GOP nomination.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>          2026 Midterm Elections<br \/>\n                          <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/2026-midterm-elections\/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3a\" class=\"component__view-more component__view-more--lg\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                More<\/p>\n<p>              <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n              Go deeper with The Free Press\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Green narrowly won a crowded GOP primary in Florida&#8217;s 9th Congressional District, the Associated Press projected Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2811,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-376865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-election","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376865","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=376865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}