{"id":545596,"date":"2026-03-26T03:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/545596\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T03:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:18:06","slug":"what-a-gop-loss-in-trumps-mar-a-lago-district-says-about-the-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/545596\/","title":{"rendered":"What a GOP loss in Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago district says about the midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"6AWMSTWCGJGHNDJRR4RYIVYLVA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Democrat Emily Gregory knew her upset victory on Tuesday night in Florida was a big deal when her third-grader told her, \u201cMom, you really surprised me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"FKXS3L2OYZBFJMIK3ROUZAWQZE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Gregory, a first-time candidate and fitness business owner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/03\/24\/emily-gregory-trump-district-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">defeated Jon Maples<\/a>, a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump and aligned with his policies. The two were going head-to-head in a special election for a district that includes the president\u2019s Palm Beach home, Mar-a-Lago. The Democrat\u2019s win was an upset: Despite Palm Beach County leaning left, this district was a red enclave, with Republicans holding a significant voter-registration advantage and the Republican who vacated the seat last year winning it by 19 percentage points in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democrat Emily Gregory knew her upset victory on Tuesday night in Florida was a big deal when her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-545596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}