{"id":377301,"date":"2026-08-21T08:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T08:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377301\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T08:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T08:58:18","slug":"orange-county-mayor-election-runoff-chris-messina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377301\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County mayor election runoff: Chris Messina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-7521dc01=\"\">Chris Messina expressed gratitude to his team and the voters of Orange County after he was chosen to head to a runoff vote for Orange County mayor in November against Tiffany Moore Russell.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a very big responsibility and the voters of Orange County chose me to proceed to the next level.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said he&#8217;s excited to see Orange County reach its potential of becoming one of the greatest counties in America. Messina, a businessman himself, is looking to make Orange County a place where &#8220;children, families and businesses thrive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0August 20, 2026 5:28pm EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Messina expressed gratitude to his team and the voters of Orange County after he was chosen to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-377301","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\/377301","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=377301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}