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.
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
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.