{"id":357060,"date":"2026-07-30T02:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357060\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T02:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:23:12","slug":"meet-the-candidates-2026-orange-county-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357060\/","title":{"rendered":"MEET THE CANDIDATES 2026: Orange County mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h979578-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">Before the Aug. 18 primary, the Observer will be publishing Q&amp;As featuring candidates in key races that will appear on ballots in West Orange and Southwest Orange. This week, we introduce the candidates for Orange County Mayor. Four candidates \u2014 Chris Messina,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h979578-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">Tiffany Moore Russell, Stephanie Murphy and Mayra Uribe \u2014 are vying to succeed Jerry Demings, who was elected in 2018 and reelected in 2022.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h979578-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">THE CANDIDATES<\/p>\n<p id=\"h979578-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orangeobserver.com\/news\/2026\/jul\/29\/meet-orange-county-mayor-candidate-chris-messina\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Messina<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"h979578-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orangeobserver.com\/news\/2026\/jul\/29\/meet-orange-county-mayoral-candidate-tiffany-moore-russell\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Tiffany Moore Russell<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"h979578-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orangeobserver.com\/news\/2026\/jul\/29\/meet-orange-county-mayoral-candidate-stephanie-murphy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Stephanie Murphy<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"h979578-p7\" class=\"permalinkable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orangeobserver.com\/news\/2026\/jul\/29\/meet-orange-county-mayoral-candidate-mayra-uribe\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Mayra Uribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before the Aug. 18 primary, the Observer will be publishing Q&amp;As featuring candidates in key races that will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-357060","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\/357060","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=357060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}