Republican Maria Elvira Salazar has won the US House of Representatives election from Florida’s 27th Congressional District, defeating Democrat Eliott Rodriguez.
Salazar, a former journalist, secured a fourth term after distancing herself from President Donald Trump’s hardline approach on immigration, saying in a campaign video that the same Hispanics who helped elect him now feel betrayed.
Rodriguez is also a former journalist who worked as an anchor at the CBS affiliate in Miami and criticised the president’s immigration policy as inhumane.
