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.
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 proud 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.
“We are facing rhetoric from elected officials that is so dehumanizing and cruel, especially against immigrant populations,” Higgins told The Associated Press after her victory speech. “The residents of Miami were ready to be done with that.”
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WHARRGARBL@lemmy.world · 130 pts · 256d
eletes@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 256d
The new coastal elite /s
CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 255d
Any successful social change starts at the roots. Win local politics, build communities / working groups / unions, and then start aiming higher.
That is how socialism wins.
Bocky@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 256d
We need Texas to get on the dem-wagon
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 256d
Texas is badly gerrymandered. It’s a big hill to climb.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 256d
I love the Abbott-exclusionary analogies.
Jyek@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 255d
Abbot dreams about Sparta kicking Mexicans into the Rio Grande. I hope one day he is accidentally photographed standing up and we all learn about the lie he has repeated for over 40 years. (I don't actually believe this but it's fun to day dream)
theolodis@feddit.org · 7 pts · 256d
How do they gerrymander mayoral elections?
troglodytis@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 256d
Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, all elected* dem mayors
*Note Dallas mayor was re-elected as a dem and then switched parties to repub
fartographer@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 256d
One of the many reasons that I dislike Dallas, and not just because it's my duty as a San Antonian, is everyone's bad-faith progressive stance. Just a bunch of NIMBY assholes who spend all day bragging about their gay friends, and then complain about Mexicans destroying the southern part of Texas. On more than one occasion, I've been asked by Dallassholes if I'm scared of living so close to Mexico.
Soupbreaker@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 255d
As a Houstonian, I'm honor-bound to join you in your antipathy toward Dallas. Fucking Dallas. Blows my mind why anyone goes there willingly.
village604@adultswim.fan · 1 pts · 255d
Gerrymandering only applies to US House of Representatives elections.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 255d
Well, it does also apply to Texas's state legislature, which can have a big effect on how mayoral elections might go re: elections laws and their application
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 255d
Todd Gloria is a Republican Lite, who is throwing homeless people in jail, after running on housing first.
Fuck Todd Gloria. I live in Imperial Beach, and have to deal with their gang members in the San Diego Sherriffs
oh_@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 255d
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)
redwattlebird@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 255d
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?
Wooki@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 255d
Right is doing the lords work
ThisNibbaCORNY@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 256d
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 24 pts · 256d
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.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 256d
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.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 256d
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.
batman0730@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 255d
Also remember there is, and has always been, a reliable pipeline of old fucks moving to Florida to retire. They are mostly conservative, and boy are they reliable voters.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 256d
ThisNibbaCORNY@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 255d
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 255d
ThisNibbaCORNY@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 255d
Soggy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 255d
It's not a political situation, it's a societal problem. We need at least an entire generation replaced or re-educated, all these R voters aren't going to just change their minds and stop being bigoted Christofascists.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 255d
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
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 255d
One good hurricane with a gun.
GuyLivingHere@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 255d
Why does this sound like a crappy sequel/spinoff to Sharknado?
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 255d
Sometimes shitty movies are fun if you take them for what they're worth.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 255d
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.
io@piefed.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 256d
i wish they would just put who donated to which politicians campaign, is there a website for that?
RalphFurley@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 256d
https://www.opensecrets.org/