{"id":372063,"date":"2026-08-15T07:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/372063\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T07:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T07:06:12","slug":"florida-governor-candidate-paul-renner-talks-momentum-affordability-on-orlandos-morning-news-wdbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/372063\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Governor candidate Paul Renner talks momentum, affordability on Orlando\u2019s Morning News \u2013 WDBO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u25b6 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbo.com\/on-demand\/orlando-morning-news-express\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wdbo.com\/on-demand\/orlando-morning-news-express\/\">LISTEN TO ORLANDO\u2019S MORNING NEWS EXPRESS PODCAST ON WDBO<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With Florida\u2019s August 18 primary just days away, Republican gubernatorial candidate Paul Renner joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbo.com\/on-demand\/orlando-morning-news-express\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wdbo.com\/on-demand\/orlando-morning-news-express\/\">Orlando\u2019s Morning News with Scott Anez <\/a>to discuss the state of the race and his campaign priorities. Despite polling that shows him trailing front-runner Byron Donalds, Renner said his campaign has momentum, calling it the \u201cfastest galloping horse\u201d in the race. He also pointed to praise from Governor Ron DeSantis, who recently said Renner could make a \u201creally good Governor,\u201d adding, \u201cThe more you research me, the more you\u2019re gonna want me as Governor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Renner also focused on affordability, saying he is the only candidate with a plan to address homestead property taxes while also pursuing lower insurance rates and reforms to electricity costs. Looking ahead to Election Day, Renner said lower early voting numbers could make Election Day turnout the deciding factor. \u201cWe think we will be the surprise,\u201d he told WDBO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Listen to Scott Anez\u2019s full conversation with Paul Renner below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdbo.com\/fp\/download-wdbo-app-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wdbo.com\/fp\/download-wdbo-app-today\/\">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wdbo.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/membercenter.wdbo.com\/newsletters\/\">click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u25b6 LISTEN TO ORLANDO\u2019S MORNING NEWS EXPRESS PODCAST ON WDBO With Florida\u2019s August 18 primary just days away,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6029,6030,147,28,139,141,140,5597],"class_list":["post-372063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-580am","tag-am580","tag-central-florida","tag-florida","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-wdbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372063","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=372063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}