Salazar Wins Reelection by Roughly 1,000 Votes After Miami Recount

Republican Rep. María Elvira Salazar won re-election in Florida’s 27th Congressional District, defeating Democrat Eliott Rodriguez after an automatic recount confirmed her narrow lead of roughly 1,000 votes. The recount covered nearly 248,000 ballots and followed a failed effort by Rodriguez’s campaign to remove Miami-Dade’s elections supervisor from the canvassing board over alleged bias. Salazar’s campaign had drawn national attention after she criticized President Donald Trump’s deportation policies, saying they had gone too far, though Trump did not withdraw his endorsement. Immigration enforcement was a major issue in the heavily Hispanic district, where many residents have been affected by the administration’s crackdown.