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CBS News Miami anchor Eliott Rodriguez reacts as he is reprimanded by Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo during a City of Miami mayoral debate hosted by the Downtown Neighbors Alliance at Hyatt Regency Miami on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, in Miami, Fla. Other candidates in attendance included former Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins, former Commissioners Ken Russell and Alex D\u00edaz de la Portilla, former Mayor Xavier Suarez and former City Manager Emilio T. Gonzalez.<\/p>\n
D.A. Varela<\/p>\n
dvarela@miamiherald.com<\/p>\n
Democrat Eliott Rodriguez and Republican incumbent U.S. Rep Maria Elvira Salazar, two Cuban-American former South Florida TV news anchors, will face off in November to represent Miami-Dade in Congressional District 27.<\/p>\n
Heavily Latino District 27 includes downtown Miami, Coral Gables, Virginia Key, Pinecrest, Kendall, Palmetto Bay and Cutler Bay. Salazar, who was first elected in 2020 and re-elected twice, easily beat lawyer Michael Arias in the Republican primaries. Rodriguez, a former CBS News Miami anchor, beat Robin Peguero, a former local prosecutor who investigated Jan. 6 rioters for Congress.<\/p>\n
Though President Donald Trump won Miami-Dade County in 2024, Democrats will surely be on the attack over Trump\u2019s unpopular immigration policies.<\/a> Cubans and Venezuelans, communities that have historically supported Trump, have felt the brunt of his mass deportation campaign in South Florida.<\/p>\n Salazar, a firm Trump supporter, has broken with Republicans on immigration and pushed the Dignity Act, a bill that would grant certain undocumented immigrants a legal status that protect them from deportation. Rodriguez slammed Salazar\u2019s bill, calling it the \u201cIndignity Act\u201d because it doesn\u2019t provide a pathway to citizenship, he told WLRN<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Miami anchor Eliott Rodriguez reacts as he is reprimanded by Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-375150","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\/375150","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=375150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}