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Salazar Survives Recount in Florida

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Republican María Elvira Salazar won a fourth term in Florida's 27th Congressional District after a machine recount. The Miami-Dade Canvassing Board recounted 247,952 votes and found Salazar leading Democrat Eliott Rodriguez 50.22% to 49.78%. Election-night margins had been extremely close, putting the race inside Florida's recount threshold. Rodriguez sought to remove Miami-Dade elections supervisor Alina Garcia from the recount over bias claims, but a federal judge dismissed that effort.

The district is heavily Hispanic and was viewed as a test of whether frustration with Trump-era cost-of-living and immigration policies would weaken GOP support among Miami Hispanics. Both candidates were Cuban-American former TV journalists, but Salazar emphasized bipartisan accomplishments, local investments, and opposition to Latin American dictatorships, while Rodriguez tied her to President Trump.

After a machine recount of 247,952 votes, Republican Rep. María Elvira Salazar won Florida's 27th District, 50.22% to 49.78%, over Democrat Eliott Rodriguez.

A federal appeals court ruled that eight former SpaceX engineers' sex-bias lawsuit can proceed in court and rejected SpaceX's bid to force arbitration.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Tuscan-inspired Aspen, Colo., mansion owned by James Packer and his ex-wife Erica Parker sold for $42.68 million.

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After a machine recount of 247,952 votes, Republican Rep. María Elvira Salazar won Florida's 27th District, 50.22% to 49.78%, over Democrat Eliott Rodriguez.

Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar will win a fourth term representing Florida's 27th District, CNN projects, fending off a challenge from Democratic candidate and fellow former newscaster Eliott Rodriguez. https://t.co/KZNy4G86ud https://t.co/tnXtRUA9cj

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[miamiherald.com](https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article317986729.html) NAMES: María Elvira Salazar = Republican U.S. House

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The Wall Street Journal reports that the Tuscan-inspired Aspen, Colo., mansion owned by James Packer and his ex-wife Erica Parker sold for $42.68 million.

Exclusive: A Tuscan-inspired Aspen, Colo., mansion owned by Australian billionaire James Packer and his ex-wife, Erica Parker, has sold for $42.68 million. https://t.co/M5BCSX3qse

Original post · The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ)

[wsj.com](https://www.wsj.com/) NAMES: James Packer = Australian billionaire and former Crown Resorts chairman.

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What the hosts said

BA Florida House race just went to a machine recount.
BThat means the margin was very tight. Who won?
BMaría Elvira Salazar, by about eleven hundred votes.
BThat's not a victory lap. That's a survival.
BShe beat Eliott Rodriguez and won a fourth term, according to the Miami Herald.
BBoth Cuban-American former TV anchors, right?
BBoth former newscasters. The board recounted two hundred forty-eight thousand votes.
BSo she finished around fifty point two percent?
BFifty point two two to forty-nine point seven eight. Crazy close.
BThis isn't a comfortable win. It's one of the closest re-election fights of her career.
BA win is a seat. She gets the vote and the committee.
BCome on. She's held this seat three terms, and it ended in a recount. That's a warning.
BA warning for who? The GOP held it in a bad year.
BThe margin says the coalition is cracking. Miami Hispanics didn't all move the same way.
BThey moved enough. That's all House math requires.
BBut donors and candidates look at a half point and think it's up for grabs.
BThey'll see a survivor who won after being tied to the top of the ticket.
BRodriguez tried to remove elections supervisor Alina Garcia over bias claims. A federal judge said no.
BWhich makes the win even cleaner.
BClean, but narrow. That's a reason to worry, not celebrate.
BYou'd make a fourth term sound like a funeral.
BI'm saying the trend is real. Next time half a point may go the other way.
BMaybe. But today it didn't.
BDifferent tech fight: Reuters says SpaceX lost a big procedural ruling.
BWhat did they lose?
BThe appeals court rejected the company's attempt to force eight former engineers into arbitration.
BSo the sex-bias suit can actually go to court.
BThat's the ruling, and it means the case moves forward.
BI get why companies like arbitration. It's faster, cheaper, quieter.
BBut when you bury serious discrimination claims in closed proceedings, the public never learns what happened.
BThe public isn't owed a trial if people signed a valid agreement. The question is whether the agreement was valid.
BThe appeals court just said no, at least for these eight.
BRight. So now both sides argue in the open. That's fine.
BYou've decided this is fine?
BNo, I've decided the system worked. Now the actual case starts.
BAnd we'll follow it when the facts come out.
BDifferent world entirely: the Wall Street Journal says James Packer's Aspen mansion sold for forty-two point six eight million dollars.
BA Tuscan-style palace in Colorado. Somebody really wanted a vineyard in the snow.
BIt was owned by Packer and his ex-wife Erica Parker. Maybe the sale's a divorce dividend.
BOr an expensive way to avoid each other's decorating opinions.
BNow you're interested.
BI'm not. I'd take a modest cabin and no neighbors.
BSure. Until the snow hits and you're shoveling.
BThat's why you buy the mansion. Staff.
BThere's the real Aspen strategy.

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