{"id":348216,"date":"2026-07-22T05:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348216\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T05:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:33:10","slug":"orlando-leads-in-early-reports-in-chandler-mayors-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348216\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando leads in early reports in Chandler mayor&#8217;s race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early results show a significant lead for one candidate in the race to replace term-limited Chandler Mayor Kevin Hartke in July 21 elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Matt Orlando held more than a 2-to-1 advantage over Jeff Weninger in the first batch of Maricopa County Elections reporting after the polls closed. The longtime City Council member earned 18,170 of the first 31,291 votes reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Weninger, a restaurateur, state representative and former councilmember, is hoping to beat Orlando, who has served on council for two consecutive terms and was first elected to council in 1990.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early results show a significant lead for one candidate in the race to replace term-limited Chandler Mayor Kevin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5672,2715,142526,1375,139,141,140,142525],"class_list":["post-348216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-chandler","tag-elections","tag-hartke","tag-mayor","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-weninger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348216","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=348216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}