ASSOCIATED PRESS Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a second-time Democratic candidate and activist, just flipped a long-red Miami-area seat. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell ousted Rep. Carlos Curbelo, the Miami-area Republican considered the party’s most hawkish lawmaker on climate change, flipping vulnerable red seat in Tuesday’s election. ASSOCIATED PRESS Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) lost his bid for a third term. For Curbelo and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican congresswoman from a neighboring South Florida district, climate change was too obvious to doubt. With Ros-Lehtinen retiring, Democrat Donna Shalala, the former health and human services secretary under President Bill Clinton, defeated Republican Maria Elvira Salazar to take her seat Tuesday night.

Source: Huffington Post November 07, 2018 02:37 UTC