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Miami-Dade County Republican Leaders To Straw Vote On Senate Race Candidates

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Miami-Dade Republicans will hold their straw vote on Aug. 11

The Republican Party of Miami-Dade County announced its executive committee of six members will hold a straw vote for the GOP candidates in the race for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat.

 

Local leaders will cast an unofficial ballot for who they want to represent the party in the general election in November.   The primary election is Aug. 30.

 

“It’s just us taking the pulse of the committee," said Nelson Diaz, the Republican Party's chairman in Miami-Dade County. "It’s really a non-binding vote on where the committee, as a representative of the county, stands.”

 

There are four GOP candidates in the race, incumbent Marco Rubio, Carlos Beruff, Ernie Rivera, and Dwight Marc Anthony Young.

Diaz also said the vote will remind people to get out to the polls when it’s time.

“What I’m hoping for is to just, you know, do something interesting and different that’ll energize people and bring awareness to the fact that there is a primary election in the U.S. Senate race,” Diaz said.

 

Broward County's Republican Party has held straw votes before, and was an inspiration for Miami-Dade's party to try the tactic.  

The straw vote will take place on Aug. 11, and according to Diaz, the results will be made public.

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