{"id":79915,"date":"2026-10-13T05:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/house-republican-seeking-re-election-touts-backing-from-colombias-president\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T05:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:55:10","slug":"house-republican-seeking-re-election-touts-backing-from-colombias-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/house-republican-seeking-re-election-touts-backing-from-colombias-president\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republican seeking re-election touts backing from Colombia’s president"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Mar\u00eda Elvira Salazar<\/a>, R-Fla., is touting an endorsement from Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella as she seeks re-election to Congress.<\/p>\n

In a video that the lawmaker posted, the foreign leader, speaking in Spanish, referred to Salazar as his nation’s “best friend” in America’s Congress<\/p>\n

The foreign leader is a Colombian-American citizen who owns property located in the U.S. lawmaker’s congressional district, and he and his wife have previously given nearly $90,000 to Salazar, NBC News reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“And I receive with immense pride the support of my friend, President Abelardo de la Espriella,” Salazar wrote in part of a Spanish-language post<\/a> on X, which included the video of the foreign official supporting her.<\/p>\n

“Representing thousands of Colombians in South Florida has made Colombia<\/a> a cause I carry with me every day to Congress,” she noted in the post. “Abelardo has in me a friend. Colombia, an ally. And Colombians, a steadfast voice in the United States Congress.”<\/p>\n

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Salazar backed<\/a> de la Espriella for election earlier this year.<\/p>\n

The lawmaker, who is currently running for re-election, is facing Democratic challenger Eliott Rodriguez.<\/p>\n

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Salazar has served in the House<\/a> since early 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Mar\u00eda Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., is touting an endorsement from Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella as she seeks re-election to Congress. In a video that the lawmaker posted, the foreign leader, speaking in Spanish, referred to Salazar as his nation’s “best friend” in America’s Congress The foreign leader is a Colombian-American citizen who owns … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}