{"id":78530,"date":"2025-12-10T15:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/78530\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:42:08","slug":"miami-mayor-elect-eileen-higgins-holds-news-conference-after-historic-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/78530\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Mayor-elect Eileen Higgins holds news conference after historic victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Miami Mayor-elect Eileen Higgins is scheduled to hold a news conference on Wednesday morning following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/12\/05\/view-results-dec-9-2025-miami-mayoral-runoff-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/12\/05\/view-results-dec-9-2025-miami-mayoral-runoff-election\/\">her 18-point victory<\/a> in Tuesday\u2019s runoff election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Higgins, 61, will become Miami\u2019s first woman mayor. While officially a non-partisan election, the former county commissioner also became the first Democrat to hold the office in decades and the first non-Hispanic candidate elected mayor since Stephen P. Clark in 1993.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI am so honored that our incredibly diverse community selected me to take on this path in the coming years,\u201d she said on Tuesday, promising to ensure the city \u201ccontinues to deliver on the promise of the Magic City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She promised to build more affordable housing in the city and denounced \u201cdisrespectful\u201d national rhetoric about immigrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe are an immigrant city,\u201d she said. \u201cWe have always been an immigrant city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">During the campaign, Higgins spoke frequently in the Hispanic-majority city about President Donald Trump\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The unusually heavy partisan involvement in the race drew national attention as Democrats sought to portray the election <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/politics\/2025\/12\/08\/miamis-become-the-center-of-the-political-universe-mayoral-race-attracts-national-attention\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/politics\/2025\/12\/08\/miamis-become-the-center-of-the-political-universe-mayoral-race-attracts-national-attention\/\">as a referendum on Trump<\/a>, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/699221\/trump-approval-rating-drops-new-second-term-low.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/699221\/trump-approval-rating-drops-new-second-term-low.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">approval ratings<\/a> are flagging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Higgins, who speaks Spanish, represented a district that leans conservative and includes the Little Havana neighborhood. When she first entered politics in 2018, she chose to present herself to voters as \u201cLa Gringa,\u201d a term Spanish speakers use for white Americans, because many people did not know how to pronounce her name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt just helps people understand who I am, and you know what? I am a \u2018gringa,\u2019 so, what am I going to do, deny it?\u201d she told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved. 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