{"id":446970,"date":"2026-11-04T07:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T07:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/446970\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T07:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T07:26:16","slug":"letitia-plummer-declares-historic-victory-in-harris-county-judge-race-beating-orlando-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/446970\/","title":{"rendered":"Letitia Plummer declares historic victory in Harris County judge race, beating Orlando Sanchez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas \u2013 Letitia Plummer has won the race for Harris County judge, defeating Orlando Sanchez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Plummer declared herself as the winner as Sanchez made his concession speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Plummer has made history as the first Black woman county judge for Harris County. <\/p>\n<p>Letitia Plummer<img alt=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/76793.png\"\/>Orlando Sanchez<img alt=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/76792.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Orlando Sanchez(R)<\/p>\n<p>439,38938%<\/p>\n<p>Marianne Yan Hess W <img alt=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/blank.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Marianne Yan Hess W <\/p>\n<p>1200%<\/p>\n<p>Vince Duncan W <img alt=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/blank.webp\"\/>40.4% of Precincts Reporting View Featured Candidates<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Plummer, a former Houston City Council member, faced Sanchez, a former Harris County treasurer and Houston city controller.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The candidates campaigned on issues affecting county residents, including property taxes, public safety, infrastructure and government spending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Despite the title, the county judge does not preside over a courtroom. The position leads Harris County Commissioners Court, which oversees the county budget and decisions involving roads, flood control, public health and other county services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The election comes as Harris County continues to address questions surrounding flood mitigation, public safety spending and the county\u2019s financial priorities. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRIS COUNTY, Texas \u2013 Letitia Plummer has won the race for Harris County judge, defeating Orlando Sanchez. Plummer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139277,23197,2715,77671,77675,173801,139,141,140,83819],"class_list":["post-446970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-decision-2026","tag-election-results","tag-elections","tag-harris-county","tag-harris-county-judge","tag-letitia-plummer","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-sanchez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446970","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=446970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}