ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings will hold an \u201cannouncement rally\u201d next week.<\/p>\n
The event is planned for Thursday evening.<\/p>\n
Details about the event are limited, but the mayor is expected to \u201cshare an important announcement and outline our vision for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speculation has been that Demings is considering a run for Florida governor. He has been coy about a possible campaign in the last two months, even as he sparred with Gov. DeSantis and CFO Blaise Ingoglia over county government spending and the DOGE audit.<\/p>\n
Demings was elected as the first African American mayor in December 2018 and reelected in 2022. Before that, he served as Orange County sheriff, and county director of public safety.<\/p>\n
If Demings does indeed run for governor, he would run against Republican congressman-turned Democrat David Jolly<\/a> in a Democratic primary.<\/p>\n Republican candidates include the Trump-endorsed U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds<\/a> and former Florida House Speaker Paul Renner.<\/a><\/p>\n Meanwhile, five candidates have filed to run in 2026 to replace Demings as Orange County mayor: Stephanie Murphy<\/a>, the former congresswoman from Winter Park, Orange County Clerk of Courts Tiffany Moore Russell<\/a>, District 3 County Commissioner Mayra Uribe<\/a>, tech businessman Chris Messina<\/a> and Randy Fust Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n The Orange County mayoral race is a nonpartisan race.<\/p>\n Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n Get breaking news alerts delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n Copyright 2025 by WKMG ClickOrlando – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings will hold an \u201cannouncement rally\u201d next week. The event…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8134,1335,139,141,140,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-28328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-jerry-demings","9":"tag-orange-county","10":"tag-orlando","11":"tag-orlando-headlines","12":"tag-orlando-news","13":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28328","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=28328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}