ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings has thrown his hat into the ever-widening pool of candidates seeking to become Florida’s next governor.<\/p>\n
Demings, who was elected mayor in 2018, became Orlando’s first African American police chief in 1998, and then Orange County’s first African American sheriff in 2008.<\/p>\n
Records from the Florida Division of Elections show that Demings filed the paperwork to kick off his candidacy\u00a0on Oct. 31.<\/p>\n
A Democrat, Demings would have to make it through a primary before making it to the 2026 General Election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings has thrown his hat into the ever-widening pool of candidates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11638,2722,4,450,2808,451,2559,3,6011,13677,111,7739,624,452,453],"class_list":["post-269351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-florida","tag-headlines","tag-local-politics","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}