{"id":49233,"date":"2025-11-17T00:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T00:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/49233\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T00:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T00:59:11","slug":"is-lt-gov-jay-collins-running-for-florida-governor-in-2026-he-addresses-the-big-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/49233\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Lt. Gov. Jay Collins running for Florida governor in 2026? He addresses the big question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    By<\/p>\n<p>                Jim  DeFede<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/jim-defede\/\" class=\"author__profile__meta-wrapper\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/jim-defede.jpg\" alt=\"Jim  DeFede\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"author__profile__image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                  Jim DeFede joined CBS4 News in January 2006 and serves as an investigative reporter for the station, as well as host of its Sunday morning public affairs program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/facing-south-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Facing South Florida.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/jim-defede\/\" class=\"author__profile__bio-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read Full Bio<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta content__meta--timestamp\">\n            Updated on:  November 16, 2025 \/ 4:34 PM EST<br \/>\n            \/ CBS Miami\n          <\/p>\n<p>CBS News Miami&#8217;s Jim DeFede interviews Florida Lt. Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/florida-ron-desantis-green-beret-jay-collins-lieutenant-governor\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jay Collins<\/a>, who is mulling a run for governor in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>They discuss Collins&#8217; decorated military career as a Green Beret, losing his leg in combat and DeFede also asks him about his much-publicized stunt going to California to oversee the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/stockton-trucker-to-be-extradited-florida-deadly-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">extradition of Harjender Singh<\/a>, the undocumented truck driver who caused a deadly crash on Florida&#8217;s Turnpike.<\/p>\n<p>Guest: Lt. Governor Jay Collins\/(R) Florida<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__copyright\">\n      \u00a9 2025 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jim DeFede Jim DeFede joined CBS4 News in January 2006 and serves as an investigative reporter for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2811,28,30,29,99,412],"class_list":{"0":"post-49233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-election","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-ron-desantis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49233","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=49233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}