{"id":86992,"date":"2026-11-03T21:17:33","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T02:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=86992"},"modified":"2026-11-03T21:17:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T02:17:45","slug":"byron-donalds-wins-florida-governor-race-in-historic-2026-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/11\/03\/byron-donalds-wins-florida-governor-race-in-historic-2026-upset\/","title":{"rendered":"Byron Donalds Wins Florida Governor Race in Historic 2026 Upset"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Byron Donalds (GOP) wins. The AP has called this race. 98.02% of votes counted\u2014preliminary results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-dominant-color=\"5b4844\" data-has-transparency=\"true\" style=\"--dominant-color: #5b4844;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 72px) 100vw, 72px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/62408-72.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86994 has-transparency\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Byron Donalds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Republican Party<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">50.1%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4,084,059 votes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-dominant-color=\"b27c74\" data-has-transparency=\"true\" style=\"--dominant-color: #b27c74;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 72px) 100vw, 72px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/63159-72.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86993 has-transparency\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Jolly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democratic Party<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">48.7%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3,972,130 votes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byron Donalds (GOP) wins. The AP has called this race. 98.02% of votes counted\u2014preliminary results. Byron Donalds Republican Party 50.1% 4,084,059 votes David Jolly Democratic Party 48.7% 3,972,130 votes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzExXC82MjQwOC03Mi53ZWJwIiwidHh0IjoiQnlyb24gRG9uYWxkcyBXaW5zIEZsb3JpZGEgR292ZXJub3IgUmFjZSBpbiBIaXN0b3JpYyAyMDI2IFVwc2V0IiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJkb2lzIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.640rBBn0VGumCPLRRAAKEzkfBs_KgJtEqQSv1MSH99gMQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzExXC82MjQwOC03Mi53ZWJwIiwidHh0IjoiQnlyb24gRG9uYWxkcyBXaW5zIEZsb3JpZGEgR292ZXJub3IgUmFjZSBpbiBIaXN0b3JpYyAyMDI2IFVwc2V0IiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJkb2lzIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.640rBBn0VGumCPLRRAAKEzkfBs_KgJtEqQSv1MSH99gMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[15365,15322,15363,18954,18955,15291,18956,15844],"class_list":["post-86992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-2026-election","tag-byron-donalds","tag-david-jolly","tag-democratic-party","tag-florida-governor","tag-florida-politics","tag-gop","tag-republican-party"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86992","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=86992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86995,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86992\/revisions\/86995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}