{"id":49812,"date":"2025-11-17T14:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/49812\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T14:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:01:06","slug":"trump-endorses-emilio-gonzalez-for-miami-mayor-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/49812\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump endorses Emilio Gonzalez for Miami mayor \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump endorsed candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/video\/video\/nbc6-impact-emilio-gonzalez-heads-to-runoff-in-miami-mayoral-race\/3718659\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Emilio Gonzalez<\/a> for mayor of Miami in a social media post on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement first shared on Truth Social reads in part: &#8220;As the former Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, and a brave U.S. Army Veteran, Emilio strongly supports our incredible Law Enforcement, Military, and Veterans, and knows the Wisdom and Courage it takes to ensure LAW AND ORDER.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It is my Great Honor to endorse Emilio T. Gonzales to be the next Mayor of the Beautiful City of Miami, Florida! A very successful Businessman, Civic Leader, former CEO of Miami International Airport, and former City Manager and Chief Administrative Officer of the City of Miami,\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Commentary: Trump Truth Social Posts On X (@TrumpTruthOnX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrumpTruthOnX\/status\/1990248968048214307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 17, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez, a former Miami City Manager and Chief Administrative Officer, was among the 13 candidates looking to become Miami&#8217;s next mayor. <\/p>\n<p>November&#8217;s elections saw the field narrowed down to two: Gonzalez claimed 19% of the vote, coming in second to Miami-Dade County Commissioner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/video\/video\/nbc6-impact-eileen-higgins-advances-to-runoff-in-miami-mayoral-race\/3718660\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Eileen Higgins<\/a>, who claimed 36%. <\/p>\n<p>Higgins and Gonzalez will face off in a runoff election scheduled for Dec. 9.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump endorsed candidate Emilio Gonzalez for mayor of Miami in a social media post on Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8165,123,125,124,4945],"class_list":{"0":"post-49812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-decision-2025","9":"tag-miami","10":"tag-miami-headlines","11":"tag-miami-news","12":"tag-trump-administration"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}