{"id":397445,"date":"2026-09-12T00:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397445\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T00:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T00:50:08","slug":"get-it-done-alex-ron-desantis-backs-alex-rizo-in-to-be-called-sd-39-special-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397445\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Get it done, Alex!’ Ron DeSantis backs Alex Rizo in to-be-called SD 39 Special Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Alex Rizo just landed the endorsement of the man who controls when his election will happen.<\/p>\n

Term-limited Gov. Ron DeSantis endorsed Rizo, a Hialeah Republican, for Senate District 39, which will be filled through a Special Election that DeSantis hasn\u2019t yet called<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHappy to support Alex Rizo for Florida Senate, district 39. As a member of the FL House, Alex has worked hard to advance policies that have made our state the Free State of Florida,\u201d DeSantis wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no doubt he will continue the fight in the Florida Senate and will make Hialeah proud. Get it done, Alex!\u201d<\/p>\n

The support is mutual. Rizo was among the state lawmakers who backed DeSantis<\/a> over President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential Primary.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Rizo\u2019s sole GOP Primary opponent now, Hialeah Republican Rep. David Borrero, has touted<\/a> being one of the first five Florida legislators to back Trump\u2019s comeback bid.<\/p>\n

DeSantis\u2019 support adds to endorsements<\/a> this week<\/a> from Senate President-designate Jim Boyd<\/a>, Sen. Jay Trumbull, Hialeah Mayor Bryan Calvo and Hialeah Gardens Mayor Yioset De La Cruz.<\/p>\n

The Florida State Fraternal Order of Police is also backing him, citing his sponsorship of the 2024 \u201cHalo\u201d law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rizo, a six-year House member and former Chair of the Republican Party of Miami-Dade County, entered the race<\/a> Sept. 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have worked closely with Gov. DeSantis through the years, and now I am ready to continue fighting in the Senate for the conservative values and common-sense policies that have made the \u2018Free State of Florida\u2019 the very best in America,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

SD 39 covers all or parts of Doral, Hialeah, Hialeah Gardens, Medley, Miami Lakes, Miami Springs, Sweetwater and Virginia Gardens.<\/p>\n

Trump carried the district by 38 points in 2024.<\/p>\n

The seat opened last month when Miami Springs Republican Bryan \u00c1vila resigned to become GOP gubernatorial nominee Byron Donalds\u2019\u00a0running mate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Alex Rizo just landed the endorsement of the man who controls when his election will happen. Term-limited…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[34178,8184,225,227,226,412,155186],"class_list":["post-397445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-alex-rizo","tag-election-2026","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-ron-desantis","tag-sd-39"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397445","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=397445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}