{"id":433465,"date":"2026-10-20T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T23:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433465\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T23:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T23:34:09","slug":"florida-gubernatorial-candidate-byron-donalds-makes-campaign-stop-in-fort-pierce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433465\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds makes campaign stop in Fort Pierce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/news-team\/5922bb8b-f775-4a70-920d-0a7a90c64cec\" aria-label=\"Jade Jarvis profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792539249_523_5922bb8b-f775-4a70-920d-0a7a90c64cec_1658958457.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Jade Jarvis\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Florida gubernatorial candidate and Congressman Byron Donalds making a stop on the Treasure Coast during his statewide bus tour.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Donalds is trying to meet as many voters as possible in this final stretch ahead of election day.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The latest: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/politics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WPBF 25 News coverage on Politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">\u201cI think for us we&#8217;re just focused on making sure we drive turnout to the polls,\u201d Donalds said.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Increasing turnout was the driving message delivered by Donalds, his running mate for lieutenant governor, Bryan Avila, and several other lawmakers, including Congressman Brian Mast and State Senator Erin Grall.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">The Donalds campaign starting Tuesday\u2019s leg of its bus tour in Melbourne before stopping in Fort Pierce at Indian River State College\u2019s Eastman Workforce Center.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">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=\"7\">\u201cWe show up, we stand outside, we take pictures with you, sign the bus, we have conversations with the voters. We&#8217;ve been consistently doing that for months now on the campaign trail. We&#8217;re going to continue to do it every single day. I think the symbolism of the bus tour, it just helps people know that you&#8217;re out here working hard for their vote and you want their support,\u201d Donalds said.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">Donalds and Avila held a meet and greet in front of the bus, chatting and mingling with supporters.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">\u201cWe want our kids to achieve the Florida dream for themselves. We want to make sure it&#8217;s affordable for our seniors and our working families in our state. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve been laser focused on this entire time. We haven&#8217;t gotten off of that,\u201d Donalds said.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"10\">Donalds wrapped up Tuesday\u2019s leg of his bus tour with a stop in Miami.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"11\">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":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014 Florida gubernatorial candidate and Congressman Byron Donalds making a stop on the Treasure Coast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[56660,445,92470,169880,16662,3886,94156,984,6352,5746,169878,171,173,172,169879,169877,1464,117326,221,189],"class_list":["post-433465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-bryan-avila","tag-byron-donalds","tag-campaign-stop","tag-congressman-brian-mast","tag-donalds","tag-fort-pierce","tag-indian-river-state-college","tag-jade-jarvis","tag-leg","tag-lieutenant-governor","tag-many-voter","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-state-senator-erin-grall","tag-statewide-bus-tour","tag-tuesday","tag-turnout","tag-weather","tag-wpbf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433465","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=433465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}