Sabina Covo beats 12 others to win the special election in Miami’s District 2

After what must be the shortest campaign cycle in the city’s history, Sabina Covo won Miami’s special election in District 2. The TV journalist turned communications pro will fill the vacancy created when Ken Russell resigned to run for Congress (and lost).

Covo, who was endorsed by the Miami-Dade Democratic Party, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and former Sen. Annette Taddeo, got almost 30% of the vote, which is a huge coop in such a clusterbunch election with 13 candidates splitting 6,243 votes. There is no runoff.

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