{"id":360782,"date":"2026-08-02T15:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/360782\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T15:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T15:57:09","slug":"ex-cbs-miami-anchor-eliott-rodriguez-argues-he-is-the-perfect-candidate-to-run-against-rep-maria-elvira-salazar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/360782\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-CBS Miami anchor Eliott Rodriguez argues he is the perfect candidate to run against Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After years of working at <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/miami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CBS Miami,<\/a> Eliott Rodriguez left the news business last year and said he was looking forward to spending more time with his family. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/the-legacy-of-eliott-rodriguez\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">But rather than kicking back<\/a>, he decided a few months ago to run for Congress. He is now in a competitive primary fight against former prosecutor Robin Peguero for the Democratic nomination in Congressional District 27.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will take on Republican Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar in a race Democrats believe they can flip this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, he spoke about his campaign on Facing South Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After years of working at CBS Miami, Eliott Rodriguez left the news business last year and said he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1812,60036,123,125,124,99,807,32932],"class_list":["post-360782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-democratic-party","tag-florida-primary","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-politics","tag-south-florida","tag-united-states-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360782","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=360782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}