Republican Maria Elvira Salazar will likely be preserving her South Florida congressional seat after defeating Democrat Annette Taddeo Tuesday.
With greater than 80% of the vote in, Salazar was the projected winner over Taddeo, NBC News reported.
The District 27 race was believed to be one of the crucial aggressive in the state heading into Election Day.
Salazar has been serving her first time period in the district after defeating Democrat Donna (*27*) in November 2020. (*27*) had defeated Salazar for the seat in 2018.
Democratic candidate Annette Taddeo concedes to Republican Maria Elvira Salazar in race for U.S. House District 27.
Taddeo efficiently flipped Florida’s Senate District 40 from Red to Blue in 2017. She ran in the Democratic major race for Florida governor this yr however dropped out to run for the District 27 seat.
District 27 spreads from Miami west to the Florida’s Turnpike, then south to Cutler Bay.
The race was nasty from the start, with each Salazar and Taddeo labeling one another a socialist in marketing campaign adverts.
Salazar had pleged to work throughout the aisle to get laws handed.
“”We Republicans would like to have a Democratic social gathering that we are able to sit with and negotiate with the completely different payments which might be introduced in Congress and be capable to cross them in a bipartisan approach,” she mentioned earlier Tuesday.
Republican Maria Elvira Salazar will likely be preserving her South Florida congressional seat after defeating Democrat Annette Taddeo. NBC 6’s Laura Rodriguez reviews