{"id":380724,"date":"2026-08-25T15:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380724\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T15:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:04:32","slug":"byron-donalds-announces-state-sen-bryan-avila-as-running-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/380724\/","title":{"rendered":"Byron Donalds announces state Sen. Bryan Avila as running mate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida governor candidate Byron Donalds announces state Sen. Bryan Avila as running mate<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0ef9e7e2-0673-4d77-92c5-22a1e3663de5_1697751930.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Allison Petro\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>MIAMI \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds announced state Sen. Bryan Avila as his running mate during a news conference in Miami. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Donalds made the announcement on Tuesday as part of his Defending the Florida Dream tour. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">\u201cI am deeply honored to join Byron Donalds and accept the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor,\u201d Avila said. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds won the Republican Party nomination in the race for Florida governor in the primary election. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">He will run against Democratic candidate David Jolly in the November general election.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Donalds is expected to be in Central Florida later on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">&gt;&gt; WESH 2 will stream the address using the video player above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida governor candidate Byron Donalds announces state Sen. Bryan Avila as running mate MIAMI \u2014 Florida gubernatorial candidate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[445,152803,152802,3291,13743,123,125,124,152805,3574,44418,12667,152804,152788,1464,16661,918],"class_list":["post-380724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-byron-donalds","tag-defending","tag-florida-dream-tour","tag-florida-governor","tag-live","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-november-general-election","tag-part","tag-primary-election","tag-race","tag-republican-party-nomination","tag-special-announcement","tag-tuesday","tag-u-s-rep-byron-donalds","tag-wesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380724","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=380724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}