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2026 candidates we're tracking in FL-27
Eliott Rodriguez
Top priorities
- Making South Florida affordable through housing supply and insurance stability
- Defending Social Security and Medicare
- Investing in education
Per the campaign site.
About Eliott Rodriguez
Retired CBS News Miami anchor who spent about 40 years telling South Florida's story on television, per his campaign site and WLRN; he says he entered the race over the region's affordability crisis and immigration enforcement, writing that his own daughters built their lives in other cities because South Florida housing costs made staying unrealistic.
Maria Elvira Salazar
Top priorities
- Immigration reform through the Dignity Act
- Small business and the economy
- Public safety
Per the campaign site.
About Maria Elvira Salazar
The district's representative since 2021 and previously an award-winning television journalist who reported across Latin America, per Local 10 News; she co-authored the Dignity Act to speed asylum processing and sided with Democrats seeking to extend temporary protected status for Haitians and Venezuelans, per Local 10, and her legislative wins include the Take It Down Act on nonconsensual intimate images.
About this race
Florida's 27th Congressional District elects one member of the U.S. House of Representatives to a two-year term. Every House seat in the country is on the ballot in 2026. The Florida primary is Tuesday, August 18, 2026, and the general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026.