No Republican opposition for Val Demings

Val Demings

U.S. Rep. Val Demings need only win her August 28 primary to earn re-election to a second term representing Florida’s 10th Congressional District as no Republicans qualified for the ballot to oppose her.

With qualifying ending Friday, Demings drew a Democratic primary challenge from Wade Darius, but no one else, creating an open primary vote on August 28, with no general election to follow.

Darius, of Orlando, is chief executive officer of TD Homes Marketing of Orlando.

Demings is completing her first term in Congress after having won overwhelmingly in the 2016 primary and general election. She is a retired Orlando police chief and is married to Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings, who is running for Orange County mayor.

Both Demings and Darius qualified for the ballot by submitting campaign checks for $10,440. Two Republicans had filed early paperwork to run, but neither Richard Baptist nor Benjamin Leon qualified for the ballot either by check or petition.

The district covers west Orlando and west Orange County.

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