Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: Another Florida Republican distances himself from Donald Trump before midterms

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Source: theguardian.com

<p>GOP nominee for governor Byron Donalds removed multiple mentions of president from his campaign website</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/sep/22/donald-trump-unga-speech-iran-middle-east-ukraine-latest-news-updates" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">US politics live – latest updates</a></p><p>Another prominent <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/florida" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Florida</a> Republican has publicly distanced himself from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a>, days after María Elvira Salazar <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/20/maria-elvira-salazar-republican-trump-immigration" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">called out</a> the US president’s immigration-enforcement policy targeting law-abiding undocumented immigrants.</p><p>Byron Donalds, the Republican nominee for governor in November’s US midterm elections, launched an updated campaign website on Tuesday that was stripped of almost every mention of Trump and removed a photograph of the congressman and his wife, Erika, posing with the president, the Miami Herald <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article317335973.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">reported</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/22/florida-republican-byron-donalds-donald-trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>