{"id":446544,"date":"2026-11-03T22:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T22:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/446544\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T22:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T22:40:07","slug":"florida-governor-election-live-results-2026-donalds-jolly-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/446544\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida governor election live results 2026: Donalds, Jolly run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"NY62VX6GU5DKLPFDYRH3ELW6OU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Rep. Byron Donalds (R) is competing against former congressman David Jolly, a Democrat, to become the next governor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/elections\/results\/2026\/11\/03\/florida-live-updates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a> in a race expected to define the coming political era for a onetime swing state that has shifted sharply to the right.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"7M3FUADGTRFK3DQFRYVYM6TBJA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is barred under the state constitution from seeking a third term, and his successor will inherit an office he has used to turn Florida into a laboratory for conservative policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Byron Donalds (R) is competing against former congressman David Jolly, a Democrat, to become the next governor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-446544","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\/446544","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=446544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}