{"id":428515,"date":"2026-10-15T13:06:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/428515\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T13:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:06:47","slug":"list-of-orlando-sentinel-endorsements-for-2026-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/428515\/","title":{"rendered":"List of Orlando Sentinel endorsements for 2026 general election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s the complete list of endorsements from the Orlando Sentinel editorial board for the Nov. 3 general election. You can also find the list at orlandosentinel.com\/endorsements<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A note to readers: the Orlando Sentinel\u2019s Editorial Board no longer endorses candidates in races for president, governor or U.S. Senate, including this year\u2019s races. This is a company-wide decision<\/a> and very limited in scope. It applies only to endorsements in those races.<\/p>\n

Those races for which we have made endorsements are listed below.<\/p>\n

U.S. Congress<\/p>\n

District 7: Bale Dalton<\/a><\/p>\n

District 8: Mike Haridopolos<\/a><\/p>\n

District 9: Darren Soto<\/a><\/p>\n

District 11: James Pericola<\/a><\/p>\n

Florida Cabinet<\/p>\n

Attorney General: Jose Javier Rodriguez<\/a><\/p>\n

Chief Financial Officer: Annette Toddeo<\/a><\/p>\n

Commissioner of Agriculture Democrat primary: Joey Mendoza Atkins<\/a><\/p>\n

Florida Amendments<\/p>\n

Amendment 1: No<\/a><\/p>\n

Amendment 2: No<\/a><\/p>\n

Amendment 3: No<\/a><\/p>\n

Courts<\/p>\n

Retain Supreme Court Justice Carlos G. Mu\u00f1iz: No<\/a><\/p>\n

Retain District Court of Appeal Justice John M. Harris: Yes<\/a><\/p>\n

Retain District Court of Appeal Justice Scott D. Makar: Yes<\/a><\/p>\n

Retain District Court of Appeal Justice F. Rand Wallis: Yes<\/a><\/p>\n

9th Circuit Judge Group 1: Coming soon<\/p>\n

Florida Senate<\/p>\n

District 10: John Lowndes<\/a><\/p>\n

Florida House<\/p>\n

District 25: Farmer Banks Helfrich <\/a><\/p>\n

District 26: Robyn Elaine Lawrence<\/a><\/p>\n

District 35: Eric Gray<\/a><\/p>\n

District 36: Darryl Block<\/a><\/p>\n

District 38: Coming soon<\/p>\n

District 39: Jarod Fox<\/a><\/p>\n

District 40: RaShon Young<\/a><\/p>\n

District 42: Felipe Sousa-Lazaballet<\/a><\/p>\n

District 45: Coming soon<\/p>\n

District 46: Coming soon<\/p>\n

Lake County<\/p>\n

Lake County School referendum: Yes<\/a><\/p>\n

Lake County Commission District 4 : Coming soon<\/p>\n

Orange County<\/p>\n

Orange County School referendum: Yes<\/a><\/p>\n

Orange County Mayor: Coming soon<\/p>\n

Orange County Commission District 2 : Coming soon<\/p>\n

Orange County Commission District 4 : Coming soon<\/p>\n

Orange County Commission District 6 : Coming soon<\/p>\n

Orange County Commission District 7 : Coming soon<\/p>\n

Orange County Commission District 8 : Coming soon<\/p>\n

Osceola County<\/p>\n

Osceola County School referendum: Yes<\/a><\/p>\n

Osceola County Commission District 2: Coming soon<\/p>\n

Osceola County Commission District 4: Coming soon<\/p>\n

Seminole County<\/p>\n

Seminole County Commission District 4: Coming soon<\/p>\n

Seminole County Court Judge Group 6: Coming soon<\/p>\n

> Read candidate profiles and race previews in the Voters Guide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s the complete list of endorsements from the Orlando Sentinel editorial board for the Nov. 3 general election.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2853,80091,482,139,141,140,109,76410],"class_list":["post-428515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-editorials","tag-endorsements","tag-opinion","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-social","tag-social-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428515","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=428515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}