{"id":38372,"date":"2023-11-04T20:12:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T00:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=38372"},"modified":"2023-11-04T20:13:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T00:13:06","slug":"trump-invites-on-stage-florida-lawmakers-who-flipped-from-desantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/11\/04\/trump-invites-on-stage-florida-lawmakers-who-flipped-from-desantis\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump invites on stage Florida lawmakers who flipped from DeSantis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former President Donald Trump boasted of multiple Florida lawmakers flipping their endorsements away from Gov. Ron DeSantis at the Florida Freedom Summit Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Former President Donald Trump brings up Florida lawmakers who endorsed him at the Republican Party of Florida Freedom Summit in Kissimmee, Fla., Nov. 4, 2023. (Video\/Florida GOP, Rumble)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Before his speech, Trump bragged of picking up several lawmakers from DeSantis\u2019 aisle while gaining two additional state-level endorsements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat a nice-looking group of people,\u201d Trump said, as he thanked them for their endorsements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who switched from DeSantis to Trump include\u00a0Sen. Debbie Mayfield, R-Melbourne, and\u00a0Reps. Jessica Baker, R-Jacksonville;\u00a0Webster Barnaby, R-Deltona;\u00a0Alina Garcia, R-Miami; and\u00a0Kevin Steele, R-Dade City, as reported by The Messenger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump picked up two additional state lawmaker endorsements: Reps. Mike Beltran, R-Riverview, and David Borrero, R-Sweetwater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multiple Florida lawmakers flipped their endorsement to Trump ahead of the Florida Freedom Summit Saturday, first reported by Marc Caputo of The Messenger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRon DeSantis is dominating the field\u2013including the former president\u2013in supportive state legislative endorsements from across the country,\u201d said campaign press secretary Bryan Griffin in a statement to Florida\u2019s Voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd, in Florida, DeSantis has nearly 100 state legislators endorsing his run for president,\u201d he said. \u201cThat, too, is a number that significantly outpaces Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former President Donald Trump boasted of multiple Florida lawmakers flipping their endorsements away from Gov. Ron DeSantis at the Florida Freedom Summit Saturday. Before his speech, Trump bragged of picking up several… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[6599],"class_list":["post-38372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-trump-invites-on-stage-florida-lawmakers-who-flipped-from-desantis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}