{"id":185635,"date":"2026-03-10T13:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185635\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T13:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:39:06","slug":"former-tv-anchor-elliott-rodriguez-announces-congressional-run-for-seat-held-by-salazar-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185635\/","title":{"rendered":"Former TV anchor Elliott Rodriguez announces congressional run for seat held by Salazar &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(WSVN) &#8211; A familiar face in South Florida broadcasting is taking on a new challenge: political office.<\/p>\n<p>Elliott Rodriguez is running for U.S. Congress as a Democrat. The newly retired TV news anchor launched his campaign this week to represent Florida\u2019s 27th District.<\/p>\n<p>The district includes portions of Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables and Pinecrest.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez said a main item on his agenda is trying to lower the cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla. was elected in 2020 and currently holds that position. She also serves on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Financial Services.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WSVN) &#8211; A familiar face in South Florida broadcasting is taking on a new challenge: political office. Elliott&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-185635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}