Poll: Former Clinton Foundation Head Slides Behind Republican Salazar in Key Florida House Race

Republican nominee Maria Elvira Salazar leads former Clinton Foundation CEO and Clinton administration official 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. Breitbart News recently identified the district as one of twenty remaining toss-up districts in the midterm elections whose outcomes will determine which party controls the House of Representatives when the 116th Congress convenes in Washington, D.C., this January. When incumbent Rep. Ilyana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL-27) announced that she was retiring, the 77-year-old Shalala was expected to easily win the seat, but the campaign has not gone well for her so far. -- More...