{"id":146167,"date":"2025-04-25T21:06:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T21:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=146167"},"modified":"2025-04-25T21:06:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T21:06:05","slug":"david-jolly-registers-as-a-democrat-making-moves-toward-florida-governor-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=146167","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;David Jolly registers as a Democrat, making moves toward Florida governor bid&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/24\/david-jolly-registers-democrat-florida-governor-00306774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>: &#8220;Democrats may get a second shot at running a party convert for Florida governor in their ongoing effort to claw back the state\u2019s battleground status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Former Republican Rep. David Jolly, who has made a national name for himself as a vocal opponent of President Donald Trump, took a step Thursday toward a possible run for governor of Florida in 2026 by launching a state political committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Jolly, 52, also switched his no-party affiliation voter registration to Democrat on Wednesday afternoon, which would make him eligible to run statewide under the party\u2019s ticket by next year\u2019s qualification period in June.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: &#8220;Democrats may get a second shot at running a party convert for Florida governor in their ongoing effort to claw back the state\u2019s battleground status. Former Republican Rep. David Jolly, who has made a national name for himself as a vocal opponent of President Donald Trump, took a step Thursday toward a possible run&#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-146167","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\/146167","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=146167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146168,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146167\/revisions\/146168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}