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

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.

  • quick_snail@feddit.nl
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    2 days ago

    I think you underestimate the class consciousness of the average US American.

    Most people who can vote, don’t vote. Give them a progressive candidate, not some obvious corporate puppet, and people will elect them.

      • quick_snail@feddit.nl
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        2 days ago

        Because Bernie isn’t a democrat. He’s a progressive.

        Democrats want people that are corrupt and favor policy for rich people and big businesses

        • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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          2 days ago

          Yes, he’s a progressive, that’s my point. When the people were presented a neolib and a progressive, the neolib doubled the progressive’s votes. Primaries are decided by voters.

          • quick_snail@feddit.nl
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            1 day ago

            My point is that the only people who voted in that primary were Democrats, which is not a party of progressives, nor do they represent the average US American

            • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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              1 day ago

              And my point is that your assessment of the average American is not supported by evidence. I would certainly wish that the average American would be in support of a progressive candidate, but there are no facts to support it. We can’t direct strategy with wishful speculation. We have to suit our strategies to the actual conditions of the environment in which we live.

              • quick_snail@feddit.nl
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                19 hours ago

                That’s not true. The majority of US Americans want to stop supporting the Israeli genocide. The vast majority of US Americans want to stop the climate catastrophe. Polls show this.

                Yet the vast majority of “elected” representatives continuously vote on these issues against their constituent’s wishes.

                Give the voters an actual progressive, and they’ll come out of the woodworks to elect them

                • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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                  15 hours ago

                  The majority of US Americans want to stop supporting the Israeli genocide. The vast majority of US Americans want to stop the climate catastrophe.

                  Those aren’t really progressive positions though. Progressives hold them, but so do many, many other people. You can’t use that as evidence for a broader progressive sentiment.