{"id":442194,"date":"2026-10-30T04:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/442194\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T04:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T04:36:11","slug":"candidates-for-governor-continue-campaigns-across-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/442194\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidates for governor continue campaigns across Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hayley<\/a>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

With less than a week until Election Day, Florida governor candidates David Jolly and Byron Donalds held rallies Thursday to energize supporters and address key issues. <\/p>\n

Prominent Florida Democrats pumped up the crowd in Central Florida before Jolly took the stage at the Iron Workers Union. <\/p>\n

“Folks, I’m here to tell you tonight we’re gonna win this race, we’re going to win the governorship,” Jolly said. <\/p>\n

>> What is the voter turnout in Florida so far? View here.<\/a><\/p>\n

At the same time Thursday night, Donalds rallied supporters in South Florida. <\/p>\n

“In five days, we are going to win, we are going to keep Florida free, and we are going to keep Florida red,” Donalds said. <\/p>\n

Both candidates touched on a range of topics, including hurricanes, healthcare, the economy and affordability. <\/p>\n

“The values are simple. We believe the economy should work for everybody. It’s a value, it’s a principle. Listen, economic growth is a good thing. It creates opportunity, particularly in a capitalist economy, but when the economy is not working for everybody, then it’s not really working,” Jolly said. <\/p>\n

Donalds emphasized affordability as a top concern. <\/p>\n

“We all know affordability is the number one issue going on right now. I know it too. We want you to afford Florida; we want our seniors on a fixed income to continue to live out their golden years here in Florida. And we want young people to build great lives and own a home, get married, have kids. We want them to do that here in Florida,” Donalds said. <\/p>\n

Jolly also highlighted the importance of winning over voters in parts of Central Florida. <\/p>\n

“We don’t have to win everyone, right? We’re not going to win every Republican voter. We just have to win enough, and I think in areas in Osceola, we’re gonna see that happen,” Jolly said. <\/p>\n

Both candidates expressed confidence as they worked to reach undecided voters in the final days of their campaigns. <\/p>\n

“We’re not looking back; we are looking forward to taking our state to a whole nother level,” Donalds said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 With less than a week until Election Day, Florida governor candidates David Jolly and Byron…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-442194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442194","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=442194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}