{"id":416980,"date":"2026-10-02T18:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416980\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T18:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T18:04:10","slug":"listen-on-wmnf-tampa-u-s-rep-kathy-castor-and-former-state-rep-mike-beltran-debate-for-floridas-14th-congressional-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416980\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen: On WMNF Tampa, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor and former State Rep. Mike Beltran debate for Florida\u2019s 14th Congressional District"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tU.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (L) and former Florida State Rep. Mike Beltran at WMNF in Tampa, Florida on Oct. 2, 2026. \/\/ Photo by Ray Roa<\/p>\n

There are just 32 days left until 2026 midterm elections wrap, and voters across Florida are already voting by mail.<\/p>\n

In the race for Florida\u2019s 14th Congressional District, incumbent Congresswoman Kathy Castor<\/a> is facing the biggest challenge of her career in a newly redrawn district.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today on WMNF, Rep. Castor and her Republican opponent, former Florida State Rep. Mike Beltran<\/a>, spent nearly an hour discussing a myriad of topics including: redistricting, stock trading, immigration, Trump\u2019s tariffs, health care, abortion, the U.S. Supreme Court, social security, Israel, and the Democratic Socialists of America.<\/p>\n

Listen to the debate here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Early voting runs Oct. 19-Nov. 1. The deadline to request a vote-by-mail ballot is no later than 5 p.m. on the 12th day before the election\u2014Oct. 22. The voter registration deadline for November\u2019s general election is this Monday, Oct. 5.<\/p>\n

Listen to the show via\u00a0Apple Music<\/a>,\u00a0TuneIn, and\u00a0Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (L) and former Florida State Rep. Mike Beltran at WMNF in Tampa, Florida on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47499,2715,8874,30415,165082,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-416980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-2026-elections","tag-elections","tag-kathy-castor","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-rep-mike-beltran","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416980","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=416980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}