{"id":144970,"date":"2025-03-28T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=144970"},"modified":"2025-03-28T17:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:07:02","slug":"democratic-candidates-in-florida-special-elections-raise-16-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=144970","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Democratic candidates in Florida special elections raise $16 million&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/03\/21\/democrats-florida-special-elections-fundraising\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>:  &#8220;Two Democratic candidates running in special elections for solidly red House seats in Florida have raised more than $16 million combined, underscoring Democratic enthusiasm as President Donald Trump begins his second term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The candidates are competing against Trump-backed Republicans in the April 1 special elections to replace former Republican congressmen Michael Waltz and Matt Gaetz. Waltz\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/2025\/01\/17\/trump-cabinet-national-security-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gave up his seat<\/a>\u00a0to become Trump\u2019s national security adviser, and Gaetz resigned after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2024\/11\/13\/trump-attorney-general-matt-gaetz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump picked him to be attorney general<\/a>. Gaetz\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/11\/21\/matt-gaetz-withdrawal-attorney-general-trump-cabinet-nominees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">withdrew from consideration<\/a>\u00a0days later.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Two Democratic candidates running in special elections for solidly red House seats in Florida have raised more than $16 million combined, underscoring Democratic enthusiasm as President Donald Trump begins his second term. The candidates are competing against Trump-backed Republicans in the April 1 special elections to replace former Republican congressmen Michael Waltz and Matt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144971,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144970\/revisions\/144971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}