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Maria Elvira Salazar
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María Elvira Salazar wins Florida congressional race

November 5, 2020 by Veronica Villafañe

Former journalist and Republican candidate María Elvira Salazar has won Florida’s 27th Congressional District race and is headed to Washington, D.C.

The second time is a charm for Salazar, who lost to Democratic Rep. Donna Shalala when she first ran for office in 2018.

After an intensive campaign, the veteran reporter and longtime Spanish-language TV personality, defeated Shalala to win the very same seat she lost two years ago.

In 2018, Shalala won with 51.8% of the vote. Salazar got 45.8%. The Cuban-American journalist turned the vote around in the 2020 election. She won 51.4% of the vote, with her opponent picking up the remaining 48.6%.

 

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  1. Gavin Martin says

    November 6, 2020 at 5:42 PM

    Can’t believe this lunatic won her election, she refused to wear a mask in a store in a Twitter video, while we’re in a pandemic. She will be one of Trump’s coomies, if he re-elected which won’t happen. She ready being a scapegoat for the GOP as being female elected for the GOP. No one cares, and if Biden is elected she’ll be irrelevant and lose her seat in two more years!!! When Donna Shalala reclaims her seat!!! I’m glad Latinos are having a talk about their anti-black racism as an Afro-Latino I just identify African Americans cause I’m more of that than Latino. And these white Hispanic there raising red-flags we need to be concerned there shady one time they are white because there are white there has skin which is what the white race has so there white since they claim Hispanics aren’t a race!!! Cause at one point there white cause they have white skin like the white race so that makes them white since Hispanics aren’t a race, then sometimes they claim ethnicity that’s shady AF.

  2. Gavin Martin says

    November 6, 2020 at 5:44 PM

    white Hispanics concern me

  3. Gavin Martin says

    November 6, 2020 at 5:56 PM

    I’m upset she’ll be one of Trump commies if he gets re-elected which he won’t she’ll be that she already becoming a scapegoat in the GOP as one of the female elected to the GOP this year as nobody cares!!! this woman literally refused to wear a mask in a store in the middle of a Pandemic that we’re in, on a Twitter video that went viral for the democrats cause she’s crazy!!! if Biden’s elected she become irrelevant and she has only one term!!! And Donna Shalala will reclaim her seat in 2022. but it’s more than that white Hispanics have been raising serious red-flags with their anti-blackness, as an Afro-Latinos who identifies more like an African American cause probably more that than Latino. I don’t wanna be involved in it. White Hispanics claim their whiteness and that their white cause they have white skin just lie the white race does so here their white people since Hispanics aren’t a race. Sometimes the claim ethnicity that shady AF.

  4. Prince says

    November 9, 2020 at 12:55 PM

    Good news. Congratulations Maria Elvira! You’ve worked hard for this.
    Please keep us out of socialism. Thank you!

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Veronica Villafañe, Editor & Publisher

Emmy award-winning journalist and former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). Most recently, a reporter for Voice of America, she has worked as an on-air reporter, anchor, writer and producer for Spanish and English-language TV, print and online media, including Univision, Telemundo, Fox 11 News in L.A. and the San Jose Mercury News.

She is also a Hispanic media and entertainment contributor to Forbes.

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