Maria Elvira Salazar

Salazar joins former President Donald Trump and Florida Chief Operating Officer Jimmy Patronis in endorsing Cabrera. Government relations specialist Kevin Marino Cabrera continued racking up big time Republican endorsements Monday, when his campaign announced U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar is backing his bid to take the District 6 seat on the Miami-Dade County Commission.

Russell and Salazar are separated by just 2 percentage points, newly released survey numbers show. A new survey of voters in Florida’s 27th Congressional District shows Democratic Miami Commissioner Ken Russell within striking distance of incumbent Republican Rep. María Elvira Salazar. The survey, commissioned by Russell’s campaign and...

Taddeo won her seat in the Florida Senate in a 2017 Special Election. State Sen. Annette Taddeo’s campaign is looking to tamp down rumors she is ready to run for Congress in South Florida instead and end her bid for Governor. News of Taddeo’s potential shift came out of...

This week, U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., wrote to United States Postal Service (USPS) Chief Postal Inspector Gary Barksdale about “the increase of check washing cases in Miami.”. The congresswoman wrote Barksdale about the matter on Monday. “Check washing is a crime where a person steals checks from...

Last week, U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., threw her support behind U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain’s, R-Mich., “Veterans for Mustangs Act (VMA).”. McClain’s proposal “would amend the 1971 Wild and Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act to help better protect American wild horses and burros on federal lands and provide avenues for healing American veterans with post-traumatic stress and other disorders resulting from combat.”

A Miami-Dade County commissioner is ready to give up her seat early to run in the Democratic primary to challenge first-term Republican Maria Elvira Salazar in District 27, and a Miami city commissioner is dropping his U.S. Senate bid to join the primary fight, too. Eileen Higgins, in the second...

Salazar’s closes Democratic challenger holds 0.3% of the funding she has. Republican U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar had her best fundraising quarter since she assumed office last year, raking in $690,000 between New Year’s Day and March 31 while still spending heavily on her re-election campaign. By...

The endorsements are being conferred before the 2022 congressional map is final. Florida won’t complete its congressional redistricting until next week’s Special Session, but that didn’t stop Americans for Prosperity’s political committee from endorsing three House incumbents Monday. AFP Action offered its seal of approval to...

U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., is championing a proposal to “allow Medicare beneficiaries struggling with the hereditary alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency condition, or alpha-1 patients, to receive essential augmentation infusions at home.”. Last week, with the support of U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, Salazar brought out the “John...

Last week, U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., threw her support behind a proposal to help battle “rising rates of substance use disorder and addiction across the country.”. U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., introduced the “Summer Barrow Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Act” last week with Salazar and U.S. Reps....

After clashing with Tucker Carlson on Fox News last week, U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., tried to rally support for her “Dignity Act,” which she has called “a complete immigration reform bill consisting of three core principles: stopping illegal immigration, providing a dignified solution for immigrants living in America, and strengthening the American workforce and economy.”

This week, U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, D-Fla., and Isabel Guzman, the administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), held an event in Miami to showcase small businesses in South Florida. Salazar, who leads Republicans on the U.S. House Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Infrastructure, weighed in after...

She spent more than she raised. U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar collected more than $485,000 last quarter to defend her seat representing Florida’s 27th Congressional District by again drawing on a blend of grassroots and corporate donors from a variety of industries. Salazar’s financial reports show her campaign...

In return, she wants money paid for workforce programs and border security. U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar unveiled immigration legislation that could create a new path to citizenship while strengthening the border. The Miami Republican said she worked for the past year on The Dignity Act, a 532-page comprehensive reform package.

Last week, U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., introduced the “No Foreign Adversaries Residing in our Communities Act (No FARC Act).”. The bill “denies visas to current and former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).” The congresswoman slammed “President Biden‘s reckless and unilateral decision to remove the FARC from the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.”

Protect Our Care, which bills itself as an organization working against “Republican sabotage” of health care access, produced 30-second digital ads to be shown on Facebook. “Everyone’s feeling it — costs keep going up and up,” intones the narrator, showing a series of morose-looking people, presumably staring at...

As the midterm elections swiftly approach, many Republican lawmakers are optimistic that the Hispanic vote will show up for the GOP in droves in the 2022 election cycle. US Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL), who thinks Hispanics are "waking up" to the truth of the Democrat Party, is one of those Republican legislators.

Democrats have again slammed U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar with accusations of hypocrisy after the Republican Congresswoman posted a photo on Twitter in which pictures of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro could be seen hanging in her Washington office. Salazar, one of the...

Last week, U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., testified about the importance of fighting foreign communist corruption at a hearing held by the U.S. Helsinki Commission. During her testimony, Salazar outlined legislation she has introduced to fight foreign corruption and examined additional ways the United States can fortify its system to hold kleptocrats accountable for their atrocities.

4Last week, U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., sent a letter to President Joe Biden warning him of the Cuban regime’s planned violence during the November 15th protests, and asked the administration to be prepared for the regime to cut internet from the island. “The letter expresses the frustration of...