Well-wishes poured in across party lines after Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings announced on Friday he would suspend his campaign for Florida governor following a prostate cancer diagnosis. Demings was one of two major Democratic contenders for governor.

Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings on Friday said he was suspending his campaign to be Florida’s next governor after being diagnosed with cancer.

Demings is a Central Florida trailblazer. He was the first African American to serve as Orlando’s police chief in 1998 and later served as the first African American Orange County Sheriff from 2008 to...