{"id":973,"date":"2026-09-13T17:06:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/cpt_politics\/ashley-moody-u-s-senator-florida-class-iii-seat\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:06:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:06:05","slug":"ashley-moody-u-s-senator-florida-class-iii-seat","status":"publish","type":"cpt_politics","link":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/politics\/ashley-moody-u-s-senator-florida-class-iii-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley Moody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Moody is the U.S. Senator, Florida (Class III seat). A U.S. senator writes and votes on federal law, controls federal spending, and confirms or rejects presidents&#8217; nominees for judgeships and cabinet posts. Senators represent the entire state of Florida rather than a district, and their offices help residents cut through problems with federal agencies like Social Security, the VA and immigration services.<\/p>\n<p>Appointed January 21, 2025 to the seat Marco Rubio left when he became Secretary of State; the appointment runs to January 3, 2027. This seat IS on the ballot November 3, 2026, as a SPECIAL election to fill the remainder of the six-year term Rubio won in 2022, which ends January 3, 2029.<\/p>\n<h3>Notes<\/h3>\n<p>Republican. The Florida Division of Elections &#8220;Offices Up for Election and Retention in 2026&#8221; page lists one of Florida&#8217;s two U.S. Senate seats as up in 2026; Ballotpedia identifies it as the special election for the Rubio\/Moody seat, primary August 18, 2026. Ballotpedia states the term runs through the term Rubio won in 2022; that term ends January 3, 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Moody is the U.S. Senator, Florida (Class III seat). A U.S. senator writes and votes on federal law, controls federal spending, and confirms or rejects presidents&#8217; nominees for judgeships and cabinet posts. Senators represent the entire state of Florida rather than a district, and their offices help residents cut[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":974,"menu_order":1102,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_politics-category":0},"politics-category":[],"class_list":["post-973","cpt_politics","type-cpt_politics","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cpt_politics"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"politics-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/politics-category?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}