{"id":337956,"date":"2026-07-12T22:31:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/337956\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T22:31:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:31:04","slug":"democrats-aim-to-take-back-floridas-27th-congressional-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/337956\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats aim to take back Florida\u2019s 27th Congressional District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PEMBROKE PARK, Fla.  \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/this-week-in-south-florida\/2026\/07\/12\/this-week-in-south-florida-eliott-rodriguez\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/this-week-in-south-florida\/2026\/07\/12\/this-week-in-south-florida-eliott-rodriguez\/\">Eliott Rodriguez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/this-week-in-south-florida\/2026\/07\/12\/this-week-in-south-florida-robin-peguero\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/this-week-in-south-florida\/2026\/07\/12\/this-week-in-south-florida-robin-peguero\/\">Robin Peguero<\/a> are among the Democrats who want to take back Florida\u2019s 27th Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/this-week-in-south-florida\/2026\/07\/05\/this-week-in-south-florida-maria-elvira-salazar\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/this-week-in-south-florida\/2026\/07\/05\/this-week-in-south-florida-maria-elvira-salazar\/\">Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar<\/a>, a Republican before her congressional campaign, won the seat in 2020 after defeating incumbent Democrat Donna Shalala.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rodriguez and Salazar are both retired television journalists and bilingual Cuban Americans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI am the kind of Democrat that\u2019s tired of losing elections, and I believe I am best situated to win this election,\u201d Rodriguez told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/this-week-in-south-florida\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/this-week-in-south-florida\/\">This Week In South Florida<\/a> anchor Glenna Milberg on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/elections\/house\/FL\/27\/2026\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/elections\/house\/FL\/27\/2026\/\">Campaign finance reports<\/a> by the district\u2019s candidates show Salazar had received the most donations with more than $1.37 million so far. Peguero, a former federal prosecutor, followed with over $820,000. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI was worried about the direction, and in particular worried about the direction President Trump has taken us,\u201d Peguero, who investigated crimes on Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol, told Milberg during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/this-week-in-south-florida\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/this-week-in-south-florida\/\">TWISF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The crowded Democratic primary also includes Lev Parnas, Richard Lamondin, Michael Davey, and Alexander Fornino. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhat everybody is talking about is the cost of living crisis that we have in this community, which in Miami is on steroids,\u201d Rodriguez said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Peguero agreed. They are also concerned about the lack of affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cMy parents were able to own a home in Hialeah off a mail carrier\u2019s salary and a school teacher\u2019s salary. That is impossible nowadays,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s the American dream I want us to get back to. We need to increase the supply of affordable housing. The government has a role to play in incentivizing that, and it has a role in giving tax incentives to people who are buying their first home.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The voter registration deadline is on July 20. The mail-in ballot request deadline is on Aug. 6. The Democratic Party\u2019s primary is on Aug. 18. The general election is on Nov. 3. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. \u2014 Eliott Rodriguez and Robin Peguero are among the Democrats who want to take back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-337956","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\/337956","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=337956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}