14 Reasons Why Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Is a Lock for Reelection: 2K18 Edition

14 Reasons Why Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Is a Lock for Reelection

1. Even though the Cook Partisan Voting Index rated Florida's 27th just an R+2, meaning that the district only very slightly leans Republican (and went for Clinton in 2016), the Cook Political Report determined that for 2018, FL-27 is "likely Republican" under Ros-Lehtinen. This means that when Ros-Lehtinen runs for reelection in 2018, the race will likely not be competitive.
2. As previously stated, Ros-Lehtinen has been the only person to represent Florida's 27th in Congress, and people like sticking with the incumbent.
3. In the 2016 general election, Ros-Lehtinen kicked some butt, winning against the Democrat Scott Fuhrman 54.9% to his 45.1%.
4. Ros-Lehtinen took more than 80% of the Republican primary vote in 2016, so she is basically guaranteed a shot at the general election, no matter what she does, because she is a boss.
5. Also, she is loaded, with a titch more than $700,000 on hand, and that is even after the hardest election she has had in recent memory. With donations from groups like NORPAC (a pro-Israel group) and AT&T (the literal worst cell phone company ever), her money sources will not dry up anytime soon.
6. According to literally everyone, Señora Ros-Lehtinen is a lock for reelection in 2018. Even with the hot mess Donald Trump is, the reelection is so strong in Ros-Lehtinen that you can't even bet on a different outcome. Seriously.
7. On one of the most important issues in her district, education, Ros-Lehtinen has voted time and time again to make education more accessible, doing things like increasing the availability of Pell Grants (which is nice because you don't have to pay those back).

     8.  She is "an institution in the Miami area." You know what else is an institution in the Miami area? 

The University of Miami, home of the 5-time National Championship winners, the Miami Hurricanes.

9.   She didn't vote for Donald Trump, but she is willing to work with him, which is important to her largely Hispanic district because of some barrier? Like a wall? 

10. She called Fidel Castro "a thug" on the House floor, which no doubt garnered her much support from the large community of Cuban refugees that reside in her district.

11.  Ros-Lehtinen is hell-bent on keeping Social Security solvent, which is a huge issue for her district, considering that Florida has been referred to more than once as "God's Waiting Room."

12.  For the 2016 election, she received endorsements from groups as diverse as the AFL-CIO and the Log Cabin Republicans, so she has a large and deep support base.

13. She pushes for Congressional support in the area of Alzheimer's research, which is huge for South Florida because of reason #11 (more old people). 

14. The 'Canes, a set of sports teams that Representative Ros-Lehtinen even tweets her support to, are poised to have another great football season, as they have the 17th best 2017 recruiting class in the nation according to Sports Illustrated (and Clemson sits at #22 even with a national championship #sorrynotsorry).