{"id":374840,"date":"2026-08-18T17:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374840\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T17:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:58:12","slug":"florida-primary-coverage-of-u-s-house-races-for-the-27th-congressional-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374840\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida primary: Coverage of U.S. House races for the 27th Congressional District"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The primary election for Florida\u2019s 27th Congressional District<\/a> is ongoing on Tuesday for both the Republican and Democratic parties.<\/p>\n

Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n

The U.S. Census reported<\/a> in 2024 that the district is home to about 788,713 people. It covers about 119 square miles in Miami-Dade County, according<\/a> to the Census Reporter. <\/p>\n

Republican primary<\/p>\n

The ballot includes two candidates: The incumbent and a challenger. <\/p>\n

U.S. REP. MARIA ELVIRA SALAZAR<\/p>\n

Salazar<\/a>, 64, a retired broadcast journalist and author with degrees from Harvard and the University of Miami, is seeking re-election. <\/p>\n

Salazar, whose parents are Cuban, won the seat in 2020 after defeating Democratic incumbent Donna Shalala, a former Secretary of Health and Human Services, and took office in 2021.<\/p>\n

Salazar is loyal to President Donald Trump, but sided with Democrats who want the Trump administration to extend the temporary protected status of Haitians and Venezuelans. She co-authored the Dignity Act to speed up asylum processing. <\/p>\n

Salazar\u2019s victories include the Take It Down Act to criminalize the nonconsensual sharing of authentic or AI-generated intimate images, and working with Democrats on the Dispose Act to stop fentanyl before it crosses the border. <\/p>\n

VINCENT MICHAEL ARIAS<\/p>\n

Arias, 68, a Coral Gables-based attorney, is challenging Salazar in the Republican primary. <\/p>\n

Arias is a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement attorney and a former assistant state attorney in Orlando. <\/p>\n

Democratic primary <\/p>\n

The ballot includes two candidates.<\/p>\n

ROBIN PEGUERO<\/p>\n

Peguero, 40, an attorney and author, grew up in Hialeah to parents from the Dominican Republic and Ecuador who served in the U.S. Army. <\/p>\n

Peguero graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and served as a federal prosecutor and as investigative counsel on the House Select Committee of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. <\/p>\n

ELIOTT RODRIGUEZ <\/p>\n

Rodriguez, who was born in New York to Cuban parents, is a retired veteran broadcast journalist and father of two.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez, a University of Miami graduate, has a long career that includes WPLG-Local 10 News and CBS News Miami. <\/p>\n

VOTER GUIDE: Here is how to prepare for Florida\u2019s Aug. 18 primary election<\/a><\/p>\n

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