Democrat Eileen Higgins won the Miami mayor’s race on Tuesday, defeating a Republican endorsed by Donald Trump to end her party’s nearly three-decade losing streak and give Democrats a boost in one of the last electoral battles ahead of the 2026 midterms.

“Tonight, the people of Miami made history,” Higgins said in a statement after the results were announced.

Higgins, 61, will be the first woman to lead the city of Miami. She spoke frequently in the Hispanic-majority city about Trump’s immigration crackdown, saying she has heard of many people in Miami who were worried about family members being detained. She campaigned as a Democrat despite the race being officially nonpartisan and beat Trump-backed candidate Emilio Gonzalez, a former city manager, who said he called Higgins to congratulate her.

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[–] 54 points 11 months ago (5 children)

The Republican candidate won the mayoral race in 2021 by 67 points.

She won by 18 points this time around. Look at that swing

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  • [+] -57 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah another swing back to the neo liberal Democrats beholden only to corporate interests such a difference from the conservative Republicans who are beholden only to corporate interests. Go team white and blue. Eyes wide shut.

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  • [–] 29 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Turnout of 21%.

    35000 people cast a vote, she got about 21000 of them. Out of a population of 175000.

    Voter apathy is as much a threat to democracy as the Republican Party.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    There is also a lot of intentional ratfucking. Complicated hurdles for voter registration, voter roll purges, too few polling places in poor areas, short hours and not enough booths causing long lines. No mail-in voting allowed for some reason.

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  • [–] 28 points 11 months ago

    Well shit. I’m slightly heartened.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    uh oh. Looks like the old folks are waking up.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    DeSantis is going to make her fall down a building.

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    [+] 127 points 11 months ago (12 children)
  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    We need Texas to get on the dem-wagon

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Texas is badly gerrymandered. It’s a big hill to climb.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I would very much not call Todd Gloria progressive leaning. He is more middle of the road really. Been a big disappointment as mayor IMO. (Source: San Diego resident)

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    My cousins live in SD and they mentioned that the previous mayor or someone got death threats for trying to establish an area as a safe haven for migrants, which caused a by election. Is this the person who replaced the previous mayor?

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    [–] 17 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    i wish they would just put who donated to which politicians campaign, is there a website for that?

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  • [–] 24 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    DiSantis has been running a heavy pressure campaign on the Democratic politicians in the blue stronghold of Central Florida. Now he'll have to fight on two fronts.

    A Dem winning in South Florida is HUGE, the Republicans always had the Cubans reliably locked up, but this demonstrates that the Cubans aren't seeing this administration as Republican friends, they're seeing them as MAGA enemies.

    Despite that, Florida will remain safely Red for a long time. MAGA has a strong lead in registered voters, and they still are in full control of most up the peninsula, and all of the Panhandle and North Florida.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I'm curious how much of their stronghold is based off of temporary (old fucks) voters and those who moved there during Covid but may leave if things get rough. I just wonder how much of the Republican vote in Florida is because of long term native population vs shorter term foreign (out of state) population.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago*

    Florida was famously an extremely purple state for many years, with nearly the exact same number of Rs and Ds. For many years, Florida had one Republican senator, and one Democratic senator.

    Then MAGA hit, and Trump and DiSantis promoted Florida as MAGA HQ, and a lot of MAGAs started moving from Blue Northeast cities, and today there are a LOT more MAGAs than Dems. I just met a couple last night, who just moved from NYC to The Villages, which is a big MAGA stronghold, with about 90% loyalty. I didn't ask, but I assumed they were MAGA.

    The biggest Blue stronghold is Central Florida, and DiSantis has been harassing Central Florida politicians for years, investigating them for nothing, replacing Democratically elected politicians with MAGA operatives, etc.

    Besides that, ever since Florida veered big into Election Fraud in 2000, stole a presidential election, and suffered absolutely no punishment, Election Fraud is Standard Operating Procedure for Florida MAGAs, and no Democrat ever wins anything unless the Rs allow it through gerrymandering.

    Florida is going to remain Red for long time.

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  • [+] 14 points 11 months ago (6 children)
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    By the time Florida will be able to fix all the problems locked in right now by their willful ignorance the state will be largely underwater from sea level rise. I wish this was hyperbole but depressingly it isn't. Whoever may read this that lives in Florida, leave Florida if you can I implore you. Florida, much like Texas, is a multi-layered multidimensional Death Cult, except Florida will collapse from being submerged under water rather than from running out of water as Texas will.

    remember the principle of "sooner than expected" here for climate change too, we are absolutely underestimating these things

    https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Florida-base-map-showing-extent-of-submergence-associated-with-an-atmospheric-temperature_fig1_269420499

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    One good hurricane with a gun.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    Could this be the beginning of the great unfuckening of Florida?

    It would have to be the first step in a very long series of events that ends up unfucking them. Any traction they try to gain will be fought tooth and nail with scare tactics and lies to a TON of people that are ready and willing to accept any world-view affirmations as wrote.

    A lot of people moved to Florida because they want it to be fucked exactly like it is and changes to the cities will likely breed more contempt than it enacts useful change.

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    [–] 24 points 11 months ago

    This is incredible.

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago

    The only thing that could have stopped Mamdani, is trump endorsing Mamdani...

    We're going to keep seeing it play out, Trump's endorsement when he's not on the ballot has always been negligible at best, often detrimental.

    trumpers don't vote unless they can also vote for trump. And the reliable Republican voters don't like maga candidates.

    It's why I hope red state redistricting goes thru, they'll overshoot what's plausible and end excavating the coming progressive wave.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    Cut to: "In just six months under a Democrat mayor Miami is over budget and underwater!"

    Edit: wtf?
    I'm saying the Democrat came in just in time to be blamed for the past thirty years of mismanagement, which is exactly what's going to happen. I know Florida and I know politics and this woman is going to be a major scapegoat.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Yes. When you inherit a mess you aren't at fault. But there are limits. Trump likes to constantly blame literally every president before him for his failings. Unfortunately a lot of people believe it.

    That said, It's going to be a good tactic for new management to somewhat do the same and specifically point out the bad policies the trump admin made.

    Also. --

    It's actually a common phenomena for companies to hire women or people of color right as the company is already on a trajectory for failing so they can blame it on that person.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff

    The argument against this phenomena is that "not all companies do it".

    Doesn't mean it's not a common tactic. It is.

    Plenty of big companies have been know to pull this tactic.

    Then the guy who actually ran the company into the ground can get hired by some other company saying when he left it was running fine.

    Yet the women who were ceos when the company closed, will get black listed.

    More specifically, women are more likely to occupy positions that are precarious and thus have a higher risk of failure—either because they are appointed to lead organizations (or organizational units) that are in crisis or because they are not given the resources and support needed for success.[5][6]

    Within historically Black colleges and universities, minority leaders were more often appointed than white leaders under all circumstances, but in other universities, minority leaders were appointed to leadership positions primarily in times of crisis. These leaders are also likely to suffer from high visibility, scrutiny and performance pressures that their white counterparts do not receive.

    Glass cliff positions risk hurting the women executives' reputations and career prospects because, when a company does poorly, people tend to blame its leadership without taking into account situational or contextual variables.[4] Additionally, women who are appointed to glass cliff positions may be subject to increased criticism from shareholders, who may lack confidence in their leadership. In contrast, Men who assume leadership in times of crisis are less likely to experience this backlash, and suffer fewer reputation based consequences.[4] Researchers have found that female leaders find it harder than male ones to get second chances once they have failed due to having fewer mentors and sponsors and less access to a protective "old boys' network".[29]

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