{"id":298522,"date":"2026-06-06T17:25:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/298522\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T17:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:25:27","slug":"jerry-demings-drops-fla-gov-bid-amid-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/298522\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Demings drops Fla. Gov. bid amid cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-7521dc01=\"\">John Hanley, UCF Political Science Lecturer joins FOX 35&#8217;s Garrett Wymer live via Zoom to break down the impact of Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings&#8217; exit from Florida&#8217;s Gubernatorial race just weeks away from the Democratic Primary, which likely pushes former Florida Congressman David Jolly to the frontrunner&#8217;s position, where he would face off against Congressman Byron Donalds, former Florida House Speaker Paul Renner, Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins or James Fishback.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0June 5, 2026 12:15pm EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Hanley, UCF Political Science Lecturer joins FOX 35&#8217;s Garrett Wymer live via Zoom to break down the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-298522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298522","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=298522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}