Eileen Higgins’s win has reset the city’s political landscape in some ways not seen in 28 years, and in others not at all
Miami’s new mayor, Eileen Higgins, hailed it as “a new day” for the city after the Democrat ended three decades of Republican rule on Tuesday night in a stunning election triumph.
In reality, the result is more of a seismic shifting of sands given the magnitude of her victory over the Donald Trump-backed Republican candidate, Emilio González, in the most populous city in Miami-Dade county, which the president won in 2024 by 12%.
Higgins won the run-off with almost 60% of the vote, according to preliminary results reported Wednesday by the Miami Herald. More than just further evidence of a growing national backlash against Trump’s policies on the national stage, particularly immigration, her win has reset Miami’s political landscape in a manner not seen in some ways in 28 years, and in others not at all.
it’s people like you that got trump elected
congratulations
haven’t you worked out politics yet?
Really?
It wasn’t the ineffective neoliberal policies that have done nothing to improve to lives of Americans?
What isn’t surprising is that centrist will blame everything on the people to their left.
Ask Hillary Clinton why she lost. It wasn’t her “I will attract suburban Republicans and I will do nothing else” campaign. It was the Bernie supporters.
Ask Kamala Harris why she lost. It wasn’t her “I will attract suburban Republicans and I will do nothing else” campaign. It was the leftists pointing out her support of genocide and neoliberalism.
Centrists are shameless liars that have no ability to look in the mirror.