Democrat Eileen Higgins has won the Miami mayor’s race over a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump.

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.”

  • frog_brawler@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
      6·
      1 day ago

      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

    • ThisNibbaCORNY@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • frog_brawler@lemmy.world
        9·
        2 days ago

        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.

      • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        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.