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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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Mayor elect of New York City: Zohran Mamdani, democratic socialist and New York City’s first Muslim and first Asian American mayor.
Mayor elect of Seattle: Katie Wilson, democratic socialist and progressive activist.
Mayor elect of Miami: Eileen Higgins, Democrat with part progressive platform who is Miami’s first woman to become mayor.
Mayor of San Diego: Todd Gloria, Democrat with progressive leaning values who is also San Diego’s first mayor of color and first openly gay mayor.
The 4 corners are looking good.
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.
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)
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?
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
The new coastal elite /s
We need Texas to get on the dem-wagon
Texas is badly gerrymandered. It’s a big hill to climb.
I love the Abbott-exclusionary analogies.
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)
How do they gerrymander mayoral elections?
Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, all elected* dem mayors
*Note Dallas mayor was re-elected as a dem and then switched parties to repub
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.
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.
Right is doing the lords work
Could this be the beginning of the great unfuckening of Florida?
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.
It’ll take at least 20 years to undo the damage, but probably closer to 30 or 40. You’re going to have to convince an entire generation of un/under educated people that they were un/under educated.
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
It’s really disheartening to hear people say that a political situation will take decades to fix. Usually that’s being said about the supreme court. Rapid change can happen though, just look at Nepal. I don’t want to accept that the majority of my lifetime will be defined by economic stagnation and political chaos/cruelty. Life is defined by impermanence. Something’s gotta give.
The Supreme Court can be fixed a lot faster than FL. The problems in FL are now institutional and happening at the educational level. If we somehow waved a magic wand and fixed the education in FL tomorrow; it’ll still take at least 18 years until those people start working and integrating into adult society.
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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.
One good hurricane with a gun.
Why does this sound like a crappy sequel/spinoff to Sharknado?
Sometimes shitty movies are fun if you take them for what they’re worth.
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.
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.
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.
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.
i wish they would just put who donated to which politicians campaign, is there a website for that?
