{"id":142653,"date":"2026-02-04T00:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142653\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T00:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:03:09","slug":"tonight-apopka-mayoral-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142653\/","title":{"rendered":"TONIGHT: Apopka mayoral debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tEDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: We are working through technical difficulties on the debate livestream. WESH 2 will post the full debate later tonight. Voters in Apopka are weeks away from electing their next mayor. The candidates are: Orange County Commissioner Christine Mooreincumbent Mayor Bryan NelsonApopka City Commissioner Nick Nesta WESH 2 and The Apopka Chief will host a debate Tuesday night in front of a live audience featuring all three candidates.  The municipal election, which also includes three City Council seats and eight charter amendments, is March 10.If needed, a runoff would happen on April 14.  Debate detailsWhere: Apopka High School When: 5:30-7 p.m.  Doors open at 5 p.m.  Reservations required The Winter Park law firm Maynard Nexsen is sponsoring the free event.The debate will be co-moderated by J.C. Derrick and WESH 2 political reporter Greg Fox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tAPOPKA, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: We are working through technical difficulties on the debate livestream. WESH 2 will post the full debate later tonight. <\/p>\n<p>Voters in Apopka are weeks away from electing their next mayor. <\/p>\n<p>The candidates are: <\/p>\n<p>Orange County Commissioner Christine Mooreincumbent Mayor Bryan NelsonApopka City Commissioner Nick Nesta <\/p>\n<p>WESH 2 and <a href=\"https:\/\/theapopkachief.com\/wesh-apopka-chief-partner-on-mayoral-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Apopka Chief<\/a> will host a debate Tuesday night in front of a live audience featuring all three candidates.  <\/p>\n<p>The municipal election, which also includes three City Council seats and eight charter amendments, is March 10.<\/p>\n<p>If needed, a runoff would happen on April 14.  <\/p>\n<p>Debate details<\/p>\n<p>The Winter Park law firm Maynard Nexsen is sponsoring the free event.<\/p>\n<p>The debate will be co-moderated by J.C. Derrick and WESH 2 political reporter Greg Fox. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: We are working through technical difficulties on the debate livestream. WESH 2 will post the full&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[69150,69146,4320,69148,69147,69149,2390,4059,13204,139,141,140,2451,17488,9498,10209,16663,918],"class_list":["post-142653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-apopka-high-school","tag-apopka-mayoral-debate","tag-candidate","tag-charter-amendment","tag-debate-detailswhere","tag-debate-tuesday-night","tag-door","tag-front","tag-march","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-p-m","tag-reservation","tag-story","tag-tonight","tag-voter","tag-wesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}