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María Elvira Salazar trounces Annette Taddeo to keep CD 27 seat

by carlislewillard

Republican U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar made it look easy Tuesday, when she defeated Democratic state Sen. Annette Taddeo to earn a second term representing Congressional District 27.

Salazar captured 57.3% of the 237,345 votes tallied, outpacing her challenger by 14.6 percentage points in what some polling had indicated would be a closely contested race.

Her win marks the first time in eight years an incumbent retained control of CD 27, which now covers a large, eastward swath of Miami-Dade County between Miami, Cutler Bay and the Turnpike.

The last person to do so was longtime Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.

– Jesse Scheckner, Florida Politics

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