{"id":389379,"date":"2026-09-03T16:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389379\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:20:09","slug":"desantis-donalds-appear-together-at-gop-forum-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389379\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis, Donalds appear together at GOP forum in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican candidate for governor Byron Donalds appeared together Thursday at a GOP leadership forum in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Donalds spoke about his goals for the state during the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe have one goal, and that goal is for the free state of Florida to remain the free state of Florida,\u201d Donalds said. \u201cA lot of the issues that we\u2019re talking about up here on this stage, this isn\u2019t just talking points for this event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/09\/02\/candidates-florida-governor-us-senate-races-make-suncoast-stops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/09\/02\/candidates-florida-governor-us-senate-races-make-suncoast-stops\/\">Candidates in Florida governor, U.S. Senate races make Suncoast stops<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThese are policy ideas that have to be implemented, have to be completed,\u201d Donalds said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Donalds will face Florida\u2019s Democratic candidate for governor, David Jolly, in the race. Jolly recently gave his thoughts on issues impacting Floridians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cFrankly, I think the race still comes down to affordability and to data centers,\u201d Jolly said. \u201cEverywhere I go, I say housing, health care, education, and no to data centers. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s the entire policy platform of this race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican candidate for governor Byron Donalds appeared together Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[445,1813,32656,155790,412,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-389379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-byron-donalds","tag-david-jolly","tag-florida-governor-race","tag-gop-leadership-forum","tag-ron-desantis","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389379","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=389379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}