ELECTIONEERING VIOLATION? Ana Navarro Uses ABC Broadcast to Urge Viewers in Florida’s 27th District to Vote for Democrat Elliott Rodriguez Over RINO Maria Elvira Salazar
ABC’s far-left daytime circus The View just did what Disney lawyers keep pretending the show never does: it used the public airwaves to pick a House race, name the Democrat, and tell people in a specific Florida district to go vote him in.
On Monday’s broadcast, co-host Ana Navarro, the network’s “Republican,” walked viewers through Florida’s 27th Congressional District, the South Florida seat she said she lives in, and then dropped the mask.
“So, anybody who lives in Coral Gables, in Miami, in Key Biscayne, in downtown Miami, pay attention to that race and go vote because it’s going to matter,” Navarro said. “And we can actually knock this woman out. There’s a great guy running, his name is Elliot Rodriguez. Give him a look.”
The “woman” is Republican Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar. The “great guy” is Democrat Eliott Rodriguez, the former CBS Miami anchor now running to flip FL-27.
Navarro also noted that Salazar won her last election comfortably but said the race has suddenly become much more competitive.
That assessment is based in part on Democratic-sponsored polling. A September survey conducted by Tulchin Research for the Democratic House Majority PAC showed Salazar at 47% and Rodriguez at 46%, while an August Bendixen & Amandi poll showed the two candidates tied at 45%. Those results should be viewed with their sponsorship in mind.
Salazar won reelection in 2024 with 199,159 votes, or 60.38%, compared with Democrat Lucia Báez-Geller’s 130,708 votes, or 39.62%, a margin of more than 20 percentage points, according to official Miami-Dade County results.
According to NewsBusters, the clip is one of the most overt examples yet of ABC News using a licensed broadcast program to electioneer. MRC associate editor Nicholas Fondacaro posted the excerpt and put it plainly: electioneering is a violation of ABC’s broadcast license.
The FEC defines electioneering as a broadcast, cable, or satellite communication that identifies a federal candidate, is distributed to the relevant electorate, and airs within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of a general election. For the November 3, 2026 general election, that federal electioneering-communication period began on September 4, 2026.
There is also “express advocacy,” which is even more direct: language unmistakably urging the election or defeat of a particular candidate. The FEC distinguishes that concept from the technical category of an “electioneering communication.”
Electioneering is a violation of ABC's broadcast license.
ABC News program The View tells viewers in FL-27 to "go vote" for Democrat Eliott Rodriguez over Republican Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar:"So, anybody who lives in Coral Gables, in Miami, in Key Biscayne, in… pic.twitter.com/n9s08yGCAD
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) September 28, 2026