{"id":419475,"date":"2026-10-05T19:18:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T19:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/419475\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T19:18:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T19:18:34","slug":"port-st-lucie-mayoral-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/419475\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie Mayoral Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791227914_323_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Incumbent Mayor Shannon Martin and challenger Steven Giordano will compete in November for the position of Port St. Lucie mayor.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Anchor Todd McDermott moderated a mayoral debate in the WPBF studio to help voters decide.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">&#8220;We&#8217;re going to make sure we&#8217;re investing, Port St. Lucie,&#8221; Martin said.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">&#8220;We&#8217;re going to invest and down the growth,&#8221; Giordano said.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">The debate highlighted the candidates&#8217; action plans for the city.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">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=\"8\">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":"Incumbent Mayor Shannon Martin and challenger Steven Giordano will compete in November for the position of Port St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[116680,165753,4320,151259,187,2156,151260,1724,8393,6686,5127,21760,171,173,172,73601,26002,221,189],"class_list":["post-419475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-action-plan","tag-anchor-todd-mcdermott","tag-candidate","tag-challenger-steven-giordano","tag-city","tag-growth","tag-incumbent-mayor-shannon-martin","tag-investment","tag-kmce","tag-late-headline","tag-news-app","tag-november","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-position","tag-up-to-date","tag-weather","tag-wpbf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419475","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=419475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}