US Midterms 2026
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María Elvira Salazar, a Republican and former television journalist who has represented Florida's 27th congressional district since 2021, faces Democrat Eliott Rodriguez, also a television journalist, in her 2026 re-election race.
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Democrats are hoping voters’ concerns about the rising cost of living will help them win statewide in November: or at least flip some House seats, chief among them Florida’s 27th Congressional District.
The race between incumbent Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., and Democratic candidate Eliott Rodriguez has narrowed in recent weeks as President Donald Trump’s popularity wanes.
With less than three weeks until the Nov. 3 midterm elections, U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar campaigned Thursday in South Miami, where affordability and immigration were among the concerns voiced by voters.
Salazar made these remarks in response to questions from the EFE agency during an event hosted by Miami's Community News at Casa Cuba, as part of her re-election campaign for Florida's 27th District, one of the most…
The Republican congresswoman María Elvira Salazar stated this Thursday that President Donald Trump will sign a law to regulate certain immigrants before the end of his term, and that Cuba will be "without the Castros"…
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María Elvira Salazar was born on November 1, 1961, in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood, the daughter of Cuban exiles, and she spent part of her childhood in Puerto Rico. She studied at the Deerborne School of Coral Gables and graduated from Miami Dade College before earning a Bachelor of Arts in communications from the University of Miami in 1983. In 1995 she received a Master of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Salazar began her journalism career in 1983 as a general assignment reporter for the Miami station WLTV-DT and went on to work for Univision as a White House and Pentagon correspondent and as its Central America bureau chief. She joined the Telemundo Network in 1993 and interviewed Fidel Castro in 1995. She later hosted political programs on America TV 41 and Mega TV, and in 2016 she returned to Mega TV as anchor of the night newscast.
Salazar was the Republican nominee for the 27th district in 2018 and lost to Donna Shalala. In a 2020 rematch she defeated Shalala 51.4% to 48.6%, and she was re-elected in 2022 and 2024. She is a Republican assistant whip, and in the 118th Congress she chaired the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere. In 2025 and 2026 she sponsored the DIGNIDAD Act, an immigration bill.
Salazar, who was re-elected with 60.4% of the vote in 2024, won the 2026 Republican primary in Florida's 27th congressional district with 81.3% against attorney Vincent Michael Arias.
During the campaign, in September 2026, she released a commercial filmed in front of the White House in which she told the president that some of his immigration enforcement efforts had gone too far.
In the general election on November 3, 2026, she faces Democrat Eliott Rodriguez, a television journalist who won his party's primary with 53.5% against attorney Robin Peguero.
