{"id":380699,"date":"2026-08-25T14:28:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T14:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380699\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T14:28:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T14:28:45","slug":"byron-donalds-to-make-special-announcement-at-miamis-freedom-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380699\/","title":{"rendered":"Byron Donalds to make special announcement at Miami&#8217;s Freedom Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LIVE: Byron Donalds to make special announcement at Miami&#8217;s Freedom Tower<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/news-team\/b72a6205-633c-4a95-96e8-d3d8946685ba\" aria-label=\"Nathalie Pozo profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b72a6205-633c-4a95-96e8-d3d8946685ba_1665775223.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Nathalie Pozo\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>MIAMI \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Representative Byron Donalds is expected to make a special announcement today at Miami&#8217;s Freedom Tower, one week after winning the Republican primary for governor.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">There has been speculation that Donalds, the Republican nominee for governor, could announce his running mate. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Florida law requires gubernatorial candidates to designate a lieutenant governor by the ninth day following the primary, giving Donalds a deadline of Thursday to make his decision.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">There is also speculation that Donalds could announce a major endorsement. However, he already has the endorsement of President Donald Trump, the most prominent figure in the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">Stay up-to-date: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"10\">Get the latest news updates with the WPBF 25 News app. You can download it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/article\/get-wpbf-25-news-on-the-go\/999316\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIVE: Byron Donalds to make special announcement at Miami&#8217;s Freedom Tower MIAMI \u2014 Representative Byron Donalds is expected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[106252,15025,16662,7918,9948,6281,225,227,226,152789,123,34527,58654,152788,42431,1284,221,189],"class_list":["post-380699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-bryon-donalds","tag-deadline","tag-donalds","tag-florida-law","tag-freedom-tower","tag-governor","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-major-endorsement","tag-miami","tag-republican-party","tag-republican-primary","tag-special-announcement","tag-speculation","tag-thursday","tag-weather","tag-wpbf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380699","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=380699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}