Trump Vanished From Byron Donalds's Campaign Site, Miami Herald Says

At least eight mentions of the president disappeared from the homepage, along with a photo of Donalds and his wife with Trump.

Almost every mention of Donald Trump came off Byron Donalds's campaign website on Tuesday, September 22, 2026. Donalds, the Republican nominee for governor of Florida, relaunched the site without the president, the Miami Herald first reported, and the Guardian followed the same day.

Down with it came a picture of the congressman standing alongside Trump and his own wife, Erika, per the Herald's account. A donation banner selling Donalds as the president's pick went too. Anyone who answered that fundraising appeal gave to a campaign that no longer leads with it.

The Herald's account rests on tracking by the website-monitoring service Visualping, which logged multiple changes and counted at least eight Trump references stripped from the homepage alone.

One reference survived. Trump's name still turns up in a rotating list of endorsements beside Elon Musk, Rick Scott, Mike Johnson and the late Charlie Kirk.

An older capture of the site in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, cited in the Herald's reporting, shows what used to sit at the top of his issues page: “Enact the Trump agenda.” The first item now is affordability.

Donalds won the Republican nomination in August in the race to succeed Governor Ron DeSantis, and he's represented southwest Florida in Congress since 2021. Until this week he'd run on the endorsement rather than away from it, building a primary campaign around Trump's backing and posting a banner advertising it.

The same Tuesday, the election forecaster Sabato's Crystal Ball moved the open Florida governor's race from likely Republican to leans Republican. Kyle Kondik, who wrote the rating change, said Republicans remain favored, but that “close polling, a bad political environment, and possible exhaustion with long periods of Republican leadership” could tighten things, the Guardian reported.

Donalds isn't the only one stepping back. Politico reported Monday that Republican candidates in races around the country are breaking with the president. Days before the website change, the Florida Republican María Elvira Salazar criticized Trump's immigration enforcement aimed at undocumented immigrants who break no other laws.

The Donalds campaign didn't respond to the Guardian's request for comment.

Ballots are already in the mail in some states. Election Day is November 3, 2026.

Source: theguardian.com, retrieved September 22, 2026.