{"id":818699,"date":"2026-08-19T11:26:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/818699\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:26:25","slug":"ryan-elijah-beats-cory-mills-wins-republican-nomination-for-us-house-ap-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/818699\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Elijah beats Cory Mills, wins Republican nomination for US House, AP projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Elijah beats Cory Mills, wins Republican nomination for US House, AP projects<\/p>\n

\"BrandonSEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

Ryan Elijah is projected to win the Republican Party nomination in the race for Florida’s 7th Congressional District, overcoming embattled incumbent Cory Mills’ re-election bid, the Associated Press has called. <\/p>\n

Elijah, a former TV news anchor, is expected to face Democrat Bale Dalton in November, according to the AP. <\/p>\n

District 7 covers all of Seminole County and parts of southern Volusia County. <\/p>\n

>> See all results at the bottom of this story.<\/p>\n

ELECTION RESULTS | GOVERNOR<\/a> | US SENATE<\/a> | US HOUSE<\/a> | JUDGES<\/a> | BREVARD COUNTY<\/a> | FLAGLER COUNTY<\/a> | LAKE COUNTY<\/a> | MARION COUNTY<\/a> | ORANGE COUNTY<\/a> | OSCEOLA COUNTY<\/a> | POLK COUNTY<\/a> | SEMINOLE COUNTY<\/a> | SUMTER COUNTY<\/a> | VOLUSIA COUNTY<\/a><\/p>\n

Controversies <\/p>\n

Mills’ race ran into several hiccups leading up to Tuesday’s election, the latest being his absence from President Donald Trump’s endorsement list. <\/p>\n

There’s also the matter of a restraining order against Mills for allegedly stalking and threatening Lindsey Langston, who was one of his girlfriends and also a Republican state committee woman. Langston reportedly broke up with Mills after he was charged by Washington, D.C., police with assaulting another girlfriend. That charge was later dropped. <\/p>\n

Mills is facing a House Ethics Committee investigation into alleged misuse of the power of his office and allegations of sexual misconduct. <\/p>\n

It was further reported several weeks ago by NBC News that Mills was the subject of a finance-related investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. He has denied the investigation’s existence outright. <\/p>\n

Mills made it to the primary ballot despite a lawsuit filed by one of his Republican opponents, Michael Johnson, who claimed Mills violated state law while signing qualifying documents. A judge dismissed the complaint “with prejudice,” which legally means the case is permanently closed. <\/p>\n

WESH 2 News District 7 debates<\/p>\n

WESH 2 News anchor Stewart Moore and reporter Greg Fox moderated a debate among the Republican and Democratic candidates for Florida’s 7th Congressional district, though Mills did not respond to our invitation. <\/p>\n

The candidates were asked about views on the budget, such as social security and Medicare for seniors. They discussed affordability including energy pricing and housing.<\/p>\n

November general election<\/p>\n

The 2026 Florida elections will be held in Florida on Nov. 3, 2026, alongside the nationwide midterm elections.<\/p>\n

Here are important dates to keep in mind ahead of the elections, according to the Florida Division of Elections<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Deadline to send vote-by-mail ballots to UOCAVA voters: Sept. 19, 2026Deadline to send vote-by-mail ballots to domestic voters: Sept. 24 2026 \u2013 Oct. 1, 2026Deadline to register to vote: Oct. 5, 2026Deadline to request that ballot be mailed: Oct. 22, 2026Early voting period (mandatory period): Oct. 24 \u2013 31, 2026
Election Day: Nov. 3, 2026<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

>> See all results below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Elijah beats Cory Mills, wins Republican nomination for US House, AP projects SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Ryan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,15110,47157,38385,347332,16602,13961,2808,347331,81522,3,55047,201137,21733,347330,65411,21,19,22,20,25,229004,24],"class_list":["post-818699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-ap","tag-cory-mills","tag-deadline","tag-debate-wesh","tag-district","tag-election","tag-florida","tag-mill","tag-mills","tag-news","tag-oct","tag-republican-nomination","tag-result","tag-ryan-elijah","tag-seminole-county","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-house","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818699","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=818699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}