{"podcast":{"title":"The Chuck ToddCast","slug":"the-chuck-toddcast-1551191","podcast_index_feed_id":1551191,"rss_url":"https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/c749d540-b5b7-42b1-a855-b33100f844fa/8e017e60-9c2d-418d-97bb-b33100f84504/podcast.rss","website_url":"https://www.iheart.com/podcast/552-the-chuck-toddcast-28968989","image_url":"https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/c749d540-b5b7-42b1-a855-b33100f844fa/8e017e60-9c2d-418d-97bb-b33100f84504/image.jpg?t=1754492636&size=Large","author":"iHeartPodcasts","episode_count":502,"summary":"The Chuck ToddCast is back! If you're looking for smart, no-nonsense political conversation, you've come to the right place. The Chuck ToddCast goes beyond the headlines, featuring conversations with top reporters, insiders, and newsmakers from D.C. to the heartland. No scripts, no spin—just real discussions about what’s shaping our politics and why it matters.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-27T16:20:42.153803+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chuck-toddcast-1551191"},"episode":{"title":"Interview Only w/ Jerry Demings - Can A Democrat Win Statewide In Florida?","slug":"interview-only-w-jerry-demings-can-a-democrat-win-statewide-in-florida","published_at":"2026-06-03T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chuck-toddcast-1551191/interview-only-w-jerry-demings-can-a-democrat-win-statewide-in-florida","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chuck-toddcast-1551191","url":"https://omny.fm/shows/the-chuck-toddcast/interview-only-w-jerry-demings-can-a-democrat-win-statewide-in-florida","audio_url":"https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/claritaspod.com/measure/pscrb.fm/rss/p/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/p57137/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/c749d540-b5b7-42b1-a855-b33100f844fa/701c2f52-497f-4859-a5c0-b45d013831f8/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=8e017e60-9c2d-418d-97bb-b33100f84504","summary":"Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings — the former Orlando police chief turned local executive who is now running for governor of Florida — joins the Chuck Toddcast for a candid conversation about the challenges of being a Democrat in modern Florida and the lessons his unusual career path (accountant, then cop, then mayor) brings to executive leadership. Demings reveals that Governor Ron DeSantis personally threatened to remove him from office over his opposition to ICE operations in Orange County, and uses that experience as the entry point to a broader discussion about what's gone wrong with American law enforcement. He argues you cannot solve police shortages by lowering recruiting standards — exactly what he says ICE did when it ramped up so quickly that screening and training went out the window, with the predictable consequence that ICE has now begun poaching trained officers from state and local departments. Demings makes the case that we have to get criminals off the streets but it has to be done lawfully, that state law enforcement should not be doing immigration work, and that being elected sheriff as a partisan position creates real tensions because the actual responsibilities of the job aren't partisan at all. He pushes back on the idea that he's running to be a \"performance politician\" and frames his candidacy as wanting to bring competent local-government experience to a state level that he says is suffering from leaders chasing viral moments rather than delivering services. The conversation turns to the structural challenges facing Florida and the deeper question of why Democrats can't win statewide in a state that's growing more diverse by the year. Demings argues Florida's underpaid state legislators simply don't attract quality talent, t…","meta_description":"Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings — the former Orlando police chief turned local executive who is now running for governor of Florida — joins…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3733,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-chuck-toddcast-1551191/episodes/interview-only-w-jerry-demings-can-a-democrat-win-statewide-in-florida/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chuck-toddcast-1551191/interview-only-w-jerry-demings-can-a-democrat-win-statewide-in-florida.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}