This morning, the Washington Examiner reported on Mike Beltran’s website edits — and how he cleared a lot of his references and support of Donald Trump. He’s the fifth Republican caught doing this, as Trump’s popularity spikes and his agenda makes prices skyrocket.
Read the full story here.
Key Excerpts:
- Ahead of Beltran’s crowded primary, the Florida Republican touted his long-standing support for Trump, arguing that it was “conviction,” not “political calculation” that made him support the president going back to 2015. He also dinged outgoing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Trump rival in the 2024 primary.
- “Mike Beltran has stood with President Trump every step of the way, resisting the pressure that all but 7 Florida legislators gave in to,” his website said before the primary. “He is one of only seven Republican legislators in the entire state of Florida who never endorsed Ron DeSantis for President, standing firm with Trump from the moment he came down the escalator in 2015. That wasn’t a political calculation. It was conviction.”
- At the time, Beltran’s website also highlighted his support for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the party-line budget bill passed in 2025 that contains many of Trump’s top legislative and campaign priorities.
- “Mike strongly supports President Trump’s Working Families Tax Cut, delivering no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and real relief for seniors on Social Security,” the website previously said. “These cuts are putting more money into the pockets of hardworking American families that earned it, and Mike will fight to make them permanent.”
- Just the day after his primary, mentions of both the bill and the president were gone.
- He also highlighted support for Trump in his latest “MAGA Mike” ad, though data from nonpartisan tracking firm AdImpact show the spot only ran through the primary, and he has yet to run general election television ads.
- Beltran is not the first Republican to remove mentions of Trump after winning the GOP primary. In Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District, GOP nominee Ralph Alvarado erased any mention of the president from his campaign website, while highlighting his “independent leadership.“
Published: Sep 1, 2026