WAYS TO HELP OUT ON WESH.COM JIM COMMITMENT 2024. THE POLLS HAVE CLOSED AND THE RESULTS ARE IN AMONG THE RACES VOTERS GOT TO DECIDE ON. TODAY WAS THE PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE PRIMARY. WESH TWO SUMMER KNOWLES IS JOINING US LIVE IN STUDIO NOW WITH THOSE RESULTS. SUMMER. WELL, MICHELLE AND STU, BOTH PRESIDENT BIDEN AND FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP HAVE ALREADY CLINCHED THEIR PARTY’S NOMINATIONS, AND BOTH ARE STILL COLLECTING PRIMARY WINS. NOW FOR TRUMP, THAT INCLUDES A WIN TODAY HERE IN FLORIDA. HE TOOK A MAJORITY OF THE VOTE, BUT FORMER CANDIDATES NIKKI HALEY AND RON DESANTIS ALSO SECURED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF VOTES. BUT HAYLEY ACTUALLY PULLED IN MORE VOTES THAN DESANTIS. NOW, TRUMP CAST HIS BALLOT IN PALM BEACH, NOT FAR FROM MAR A LAGO. HE TALKED ABOUT HIS CAMPAIGN STAFF AND SUCCESS IN THE POLLS. MEANWHILE, PRESIDENT BIDEN HAD A NUMBER OF CAMPAIGN EVENTS TODAY ADDRESSING SUPPORTERS IN NEVADA AND ARIZONA, TWO BATTLEGROUND STATES IN THE NOVEMBER ELECTION. HE WAS THE ONLY CANDIDATE HERE IN FLORIDA. SO THERE WAS NO DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY HERE. BIDEN AND TRUMP HAVE BOTH BEEN FOCUSING THEIR CAMPAIGNS ON THE GENERAL ELECTION WITH A KEY FOCUS ON A HANDFUL OF STATES THAT WILL ULTIMATELY DECIDE WHO WINS THE RACE. STU MICHELLE, BACK TO YOU, SUMMER. THANK YOU. THE FACT THAT THE MAJOR PARTY NOMINATIONS FOR THE WHITE HOUSE ARE LOCKED UP LIKELY KEPT VOTERS AWAY FROM THE POLLS. TURNOUT IN ORANGE COUNTY WAS THE LOWEST ON RECORD FOR A PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE PRIMARY, BUT AS WESH TWO NEWS POLITICAL REPORTER GREG FOX EXPLAINS, IT WAS SOLID FIRST TEST FOR A NEWLY APPOINTED ELECTION SUPERVISOR. AS WE LOOK AHEAD TO THE AUGUST AND NOVEMBER CONTESTS. THE LAST BALLOTS HAVE BEEN CAST. EQUIPMENT IS BEING BROUGHT BACK, ALONG WITH SIGNS TO ELECTION HEADQUARTERS. WRAPPING UP WHAT COULD BE THE LOWEST TURNOUT ELECTION OF THIS KIND EVER. IT’S NOT THE KIND OF POLITICAL HISTORY YOU HOPE TO MAKE WHEN YOU WORK IN ONE OF THE LARGEST ELECTIONS OFFICES IN THE STATE, BUT THE HEADS OF THE TWO MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES IN ORANGE COUNTY SUSPECTED THAT WITH THE NOMINATIONS FOR THE WHITE HOUSE ALREADY SET BEFORE THE SUNSHINE STATE VOTED, LOW TURNOUT WAS NOT SURPRISING. BUT WE ALSO HAVE ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS SPRING BREAK THIS WEEK, SO WE HAVE A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS IN THE MIX. SO I WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF TIMES WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO VOTE EARLY, VOTE BY MAIL. WE’RE DEFINITELY GOING TO LOOK AT THE VOTER FILE, LOOK AT WHO TURNED OUT TO VOTE, AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY STAY ENGAGED IN AUGUST AND NOVEMBER, AND THEN ALSO GET EVERYONE ELSE WHO DIDN’T VOTE TO TODAY. LOCAL ELECTIONS FELT THE FALLOUT FROM JUST AN 18.5% TURNOUT, DESPITE HAVING SIX CITIES WITH TEN MAYOR AND COMMISSION RACES, FOUR CITIES HAD BALLOT MEASURES. IN MAITLAND, FOR EXAMPLE, PEOPLE FREELY SHARED THEIR VIEWS ON PAYING FOR A NEW LIBRARY. WAS IT A TOUGH DECISION? NO, NOT AT ALL. IT’S NEEDED. NEEDED FOR THE COMMUNITY FOR SURE. I VOTED AGAINST IT BECAUSE I WANT THE ROADS FIXED BEFORE THEY SPEND THAT AMOUNT OF MONEY ON A NEW LIBRARY AND SHARED THEIR DISDAIN FOR THOSE WHO DIDN’T BOTHER TO CAST BALLOTS. PAY ATTENTION. ALL YOU DO IS JUST MARK YOUR BALLOTS. SO HOW HARD IS THAT? THE ELECTION WAS THE FIRST BIG TEST FOR NEWLY APPOINTED SUPERVISOR GLENN GILSON, WHO JUST 15 DAYS INTO THE JOB, MADE A VERY VISIBLE CHANGE, OPENING UP A VIDEO LIVE STREAM INTO THE BALLOT PROCESSING ROOM SO VOTERS COULD WATCH DEMOCRACY IN ACTION. ORANGE COUNTY IS THE FIRST EVER COUNTY IN THE ENTIRE STATE OF FLORIDA TO OFFER A LIVE STREAMING FEATURE. SO THAT IS THE LEVEL OF CHANGE. SO I WOULD SAY IT’S NOT REALLY A CHANGE. IT’S MORE OF AN ENHANCEMENT. WE ASKED SUPERVISOR GILZEAN IF HE’S CONSIDERED RUNNING FOR ELECTION TO THE POST OF SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS. HE TOLD US HE HAS NOT YET MADE THAT DECISION IN ORANGE COUNTY. GREG FOX, WESH TWO NEWS THE ORANGE COUNTY ELECTIONS OFFICE BUDGETED ROUGHLY 11. $4 MILLION FOR TODAY’S ELECTION, WITH JUST MORE THAN 54,000 VOTES. THAT WORKS OUT TO NEARLY $27 PER BALLOT CAST. NOW WE HAVE THE RESULTS OF SOME OF THE BIGGEST RACES IN CENTRAL FLORIDA TODAY IN MAITLAND, VOTERS OVERWHELMINGLY APPROVED A BOND FOR A NEW LIBRARY, WITH 62% IN FAVOR IN THE RACE FOR OAKLAND, MAYOR SHANE TAYLOR BEAT SAUL RAMOS WITH 65% OF THE VOTE. SHEILA DICICCIO WON THE RACE FOR WINTER PARK MAYOR WITH 71% OF THE VOTE, AND A CONTENTIOUS RACE FOR APOPKA CITY COUNCIL. NADIA ANDERSON BEAT DARYL RICHARDSON FOR SEAT THREE, AND IN THE RACE FOR OCOEE CITY COMMISSIONER IN DISTRICT FOUR, GEORGE OLIVER WON WITH 51% OF THE VOTE AND YOU CAN FIND THE RESULTS OF ALL OF OUR LOCAL RACES ON WESH.COM AND OUR WESH TWO NEWS MOBILE AP