Ana Navarro, co-host of ABC daytime program The View, urged the studio crowd and television viewers to back Democrat Eliott Rodriguez rather than Republican Representative Maria Elvira Salazar in a Florida House contest. She said she had expected an easy Salazar win after a 20-point margin two years earlier in a district Donald Trump carried by 15 points, yet polling now shows a deadlock. Navarro, a resident of that district, told people in Coral Gables, Miami, Key Biscayne, and downtown Miami to vote because the outcome could unseat Salazar.

Commentators and media watchdogs discussed whether the remarks violated FCC electioneering and equal-time rules. ABC and parent Disney sued the FCC earlier this year, calling the agency’s demands an unconstitutional bid to curb speech and punish programming; the FCC said it was serving the public interest.