{"id":429886,"date":"2026-10-16T21:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T21:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/429886\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T21:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T21:46:15","slug":"president-trump-to-visit-fort-myers-next-week-ahead-of-midterm-elections-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/429886\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump to visit Fort Myers next week ahead of midterm elections | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/search\/?l=25&amp;s=start_time&amp;sd=desc&amp;f=html&amp;t=article%2Cvideo%2Cyoutube%2Ccollection&amp;app=editorial&amp;nsa=eedition&amp;q=Donald+Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> is heading to Fort Myers for a midterm campaign rally.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is set to visit Fort Myers on Friday, Oct. 23, according to a spokesperson for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/search\/?f=html&amp;t=article%2Ccollection%2Cvideo%2Cyoutube&amp;s=start_time&amp;sd=desc&amp;l=25&amp;nsa=eedition&amp;q=Byron+Donalds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Byron Donalds&#8217; campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said the visit is aimed at rallying Republicans in support of Donalds.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">The location of Trump&#8217;s visit has not yet been publicly announced. Doors are scheduled to open at 10:30 a.m., with remarks expected to begin at 2 p.m., according to a source familiar with the plans who spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WINK News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Trump&#8217;s most recent visit to Southwest Florida was in April 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s previous\u00a0visit with Donald\u2019s at the Fort Myers House of Pizza<\/p>\n<p>Allie Lees&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">The visit comes less than a month before the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Trump has campaigned in several states in recent days, including Ohio, Alaska, Arizona and Montana, as he works to rally support for Republican candidates ahead of the elections, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-vance-campaigning-republicans-oklahoma-texas-florida-b686e72598df56656bdcae3270799d65?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">as reported by the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. \u2014 President Donald Trump is heading to Fort Myers for a midterm campaign rally. Trump&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,478,115,99,121785],"class_list":["post-429886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-southwest_florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429886","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=429886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}