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Voters in Florida’s 27th Congressional District head to the polls Tuesday to select nominees in both major party primaries for a U.S. House seat representing a district of approximately 788,713 residents across 119 square miles in Miami-Dade County. The winner of each primary will advance to the general election later this year.
U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, 64, is defending her Republican seat against challenger Vincent Michael Arias. Salazar, a former broadcast journalist and author with degrees from Harvard University and the University of Miami, won the seat in 2020 by defeating Democratic incumbent Donna Shalala and was sworn in the following year. Her parents are Cuban nationals.
Salazar has emerged as a Trump-aligned Republican while occasionally breaking ranks on certain humanitarian issues, including her push for extended temporary protected status for Haitian and Venezuelan nationals. She co-authored the Dignity Act to expedite asylum processing and partnered across the aisle on legislation targeting fentanyl smuggling. She also championed the Take It Down Act, which criminalizes the distribution of nonconsensual intimate imagery, whether authentic or artificially generated.
Arias, 68, is a Coral Gables attorney with prior experience as an SEC enforcement attorney and assistant state attorney in Orlando. He is mounting a challenge from the right in the Republican primary.
On the Democratic side, attorney Robin Peguero, 40, and retired broadcast journalist Eliott Rodriguez are competing for their party’s nomination. Peguero, who grew up in Hialeah to parents from the Dominican Republic and Ecuador, attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School before serving as a federal prosecutor and investigative counsel on the House Select Committee examining the January 6 Capitol attack.
Rodriguez was born in New York to Cuban parents and is a University of Miami graduate whose journalism career spans WPLG-Local 10 News and CBS News Miami. He is the father of two children.
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