Republican nominee Maria Elvira Salazar leads former Clinton Foundation CEO Donna Shalala by nine points, 50 percent to 41 percent, in Florida’s 27th Congressional District, according to an internal poll conducted by McLaughlin & Associates and released by the Salazar campaign on Tuesday.
Democrats are worried that their bet on Latino voting-power is failing amid President Donald Trump’s good economy, say media reports.
Republican candidates are looking strong in seven key House races in Florida, a battleground state won by Donald Trump in 2016.
The congressional bid by Donna Shalala, the 77-year-old former Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary under President Barack Obama, in a Florida district the Democrats were certain they would pick up from Republicans, is losing steam.
Seven of the 86 Republican-held House seats across the country that are rated as “competitive” this midterm election are in Florida.
