{"id":349887,"date":"2026-07-23T14:23:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349887\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T14:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:23:23","slug":"talking-central-florida-governors-race-update-and-trumps-election-integrity-address-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349887\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Central Florida: Governor\u2019s race update and Trump\u2019s election integrity address \u2013 Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this week\u2019s episode of Talking Central Florida, new polling from the University of North Florida shows Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds leading Democrat David Jolly by five points in a potential November matchup, should both emerge from their primaries.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Lemongello from the Orlando Sentinel, Shannon Butler from WFTV Channel 9 and Jeff Allen from Spectrum News 13 discuss the frontrunners in the governor\u2019s race and how incumbent Ron DeSantis might influence the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, the panel compares President Trump\u2019s prime-time address on election integrity with the message from local officials at a recent supervisors of elections roundtable hosted by the News Collaborative of Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TalkingCentralFlorida\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Talking Central Florida<\/a> is hosted by Steve Mort. The show gets in-depth analysis from the journalists covering our region\u2019s most important issues.<\/p>\n<p>The show is a production of the News Collaborative of Central Florida with support from Central Florida Public Media, the Orlando Sentinel, the Winter Park Voice, and the Central Florida Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>View every podcast from the show at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TalkingCentralFlorida\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">youtube.com\/@TalkingCentralFlorida<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this week\u2019s episode of Talking Central Florida, new polling from the University of North Florida shows Republican&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[409,2811,29,114,266,115,139,141,140,99,412,109,80971],"class_list":["post-349887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-florida-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-politics","tag-ron-desantis","tag-social","tag-talking-central-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349887","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=349887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}