Early voting began Friday for Miami’s mayoral runoff as both candidates are receiving support from some big names in the political world.<\/p>\n
Eileen Higgins and Emilio Gonzalez were the top two finishers last month but only one will become the city’s next mayor in the Dec. 9 runoff.<\/p>\n
Higgins is a former Miami-Dade County Commission member who unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2022.<\/p>\n
Gonzalez is the former Miami City Manager and Chief Administrative Officer.<\/p>\n
Both Higgins and Gonzalez have been backed by top figures from the Democrats and Republicans.<\/p>\n
Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego was joining Higgins in Miami this weekend for early voting events. Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg also supported her in a video shared by her campaign on Friday.<\/p>\n
If she wins the mayoral runoff, she could become the first Democrat to lead Miami in over 25 years.<\/p>\n
Gonzalez has received endorsements from President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and was rallying voters with Sen. Rick Scott on Friday.<\/p>\n
A loss for the Republican in the nonpartisan race could be perceived as a setback for the GOP in Florida, given how much Miami has moved to the right over the years.<\/p>\n
Gallego, an Arizona Democrat, has been campaigning for fellow party members in Latino areas, helping New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill and Virginia Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger. Both off-year election results last month showed signs of a Hispanic shift away from Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early voting began Friday for Miami’s mayoral runoff as both candidates are receiving support from some big names…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8165,123,125,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-72920","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72920","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=72920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}