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BumRushDaShow

(165,203 posts) Wed Dec 10, 2025, 03:14 AM Dec 10

Democrat wins Miami mayor's race for the first time in nearly 30 years

Source: AP

Updated 12:52 AM EST, December 10, 2025

MIAMI (AP) — Democrat Eileen Higgins won the Miami mayor’s race on Tuesday, defeating a Republican endorsed by President 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.”

With nearly all votes counted Tuesday, Higgins led the Republican by about 19 percentage points.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/miami-mayor-trump-higgins-gonzalez-f0d8c55a4b97962ac1348c5a93295465

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Democrat wins Miami mayor's race for the first time in nearly 30 years (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 10 OP

Dupe Polybius Dec 10 #1

Election results in LBN Emile Dec 10 #2

trump and his pedophile fan club lose again! RandiFan1290 Dec 10 #3

Excellent. We are gaining momentum, and making real progress. Martin68 Dec 10 #4

PLUS... Ketchup stocks are WAY up! Attilatheblond Dec 10 #6

A win is a win. Go Dems. Hotler Dec 10 #5

A win is a win alright, but I was under the impression it was gonna be a fairly tight race. But 19 points? It was a Fil1957 Dec 10 #7

I LOVE these signs! We're fighting back some_of_us_are_sane Dec 10 #8

So they are sending a plane to deport her? twodogsbarking Dec 10 #9

Did the Cubans actually vote edhopper Dec 10 #10

"A bright red city in a bright red state just went blue tonight" Torchlight Dec 10 #11

Thank you Miami! Initech Dec 10 #12

MaddowBlog-Democrats score big wins in Florida and Georgia, as the GOP's election woes continue LetMyPeopleVote Dec 11 #13

Polybius

(21,401 posts)

1. Dupe

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2025, 05:26 AM

Dec 10

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143579824

Emile

(40,335 posts)

2. Election results in LBN

Reply to Polybius (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 10, 2025, 06:22 AM

Dec 10

must be from an AP source.

RandiFan1290

(6,660 posts)

3. trump and his pedophile fan club lose again!

Reply to Polybius (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 10, 2025, 07:14 AM

Dec 10

Martin68

(26,947 posts)

4. Excellent. We are gaining momentum, and making real progress.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2025, 09:14 AM

Dec 10

Attilatheblond

(8,156 posts)

6. PLUS... Ketchup stocks are WAY up!

Reply to Martin68 (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 10, 2025, 10:19 AM

Dec 10

Hotler

(13,719 posts)

5. A win is a win. Go Dems.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2025, 10:18 AM

Dec 10

Fil1957

(506 posts)

7. A win is a win alright, but I was under the impression it was gonna be a fairly tight race. But 19 points? It was a

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2025, 10:42 AM

Dec 10

total ass kicking! That and the Georgia state house results ought to make Republicans nervous.

some_of_us_are_sane

(2,677 posts)

8. I LOVE these signs! We're fighting back

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2025, 12:57 PM

Dec 10

race by race, neighborhood by neighborhood IN TRUE DEMOCRATIC style!

twodogsbarking

(17,499 posts)

9. So they are sending a plane to deport her?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2025, 01:09 PM

Dec 10

edhopper

(37,023 posts)

10. Did the Cubans actually vote

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2025, 01:12 PM

Dec 10

for a Democrat?

Torchlight

(6,268 posts)

11. "A bright red city in a bright red state just went blue tonight"

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2025, 04:48 PM

Dec 10

Laura Lips Loomer wrote that as an alarm of the highest degree on a social media account. I'm feeling comforted by it, however. Gonna be tough for her and her peers to make this out as anything but another dramatic win for the Democratic party... as well as the exemplary success of Mayor Higgins' campaign.

Initech

(107,249 posts)

12. Thank you Miami!

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Dec 10, 2025, 06:43 PM

Dec 10

MAGA can and must be defeated!

LetMyPeopleVote

(174,387 posts)

13. MaddowBlog-Democrats score big wins in Florida and Georgia, as the GOP's election woes continue

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Dec 11, 2025, 12:17 PM

Dec 11

The more Donald Trump and his party pretend they don’t have an electoral problem, the more Republicans lose winnable elections.

Republicans keep saying they donâ€™t have a political problem. They also keep losing elections.

Miamiâ€™s mayoral race was big, but Dems flipping a state House seat in Georgia was just as notable. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-12-10T13:59:55.954Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/democrats-score-big-wins-in-florida-and-georgia-as-the-gops-election-woes-continue

While this was technically a nonpartisan contest, Democrats backed Eileen Higgins, a former county commissioner, while Republicans supported Emilio González, a former city manager. Trump eagerly endorsed the latter, and the day before the election, the president wrote on his social media platform, “Miami’s Mayor Race is Tuesday. It is a big and important race!!! Vote for Republican Gonzalez. He is FANTASTIC! … MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

It didn’t work. The Miami Herald reported:

Democrat Eileen Higgins has defeated Trump-backed opponent Emilio González in Tuesday night’s runoff for Miami mayor, with the former Miami-Dade commissioner edging out the former city manager with nearly 60% of the vote, according to preliminary election night results.

A raucous crowd danced to Stevie Wonder’s ‘Signed, Sealed, Delivered’ as Higgins stood alongside family and supporters onstage at the Miami Woman’s Club, a symbolic location as Higgins becomes Miami’s first female mayor.

The race wasn’t especially close: Despite Trump’s intervention on González’s behalf, Higgins appears to have won by roughly 18 points.....

And in case that weren’t quite enough to get GOP officials’ attention, on the same day, Democrat Eric Gisler flipped a state House seat in Georgia, scoring an unexpected upset in a district Trump won last year by 12 points.

The results come on the heels of last week’s congressional special election in Tennessee, where Democrats overperformed in a district Trump won by 22 points.

They also come a month after Democrats dominated in the 2025 elections, following a year in which Democrats have consistently overperformed in ways that should make Republicans quite nervous ahead of the 2026 midterm election cycle.

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