GOP electoral worries shift to Miami's mayoral runoff
MIAMI — Republicans may not have to wait long for their next opportunity for soul-searching and midterm panic, thanks to next week’s Miami mayoral runoff.
The GOP is bracing for a possible loss in one of the state’s remaining blue areas — but in an office Republicans have held for nearly 30 years. It would come as a blow in a state President Donald Trump calls home, and in a city where he plans to build his future presidential library. The contest in Miami is set for just one week after Republicans faced a close special election in a Tennessee House race that Trump previously won by 22 points.
It’s a tough district,” Evan Power, chair of the Republican Party of Florida, said of what he called “Kamala district” Miami. “My expectation is, it probably doesn’t perform for Republicans, but we have to do what we have to do, fight in every place.”
The nominally nonpartisan race has come down to a Dec. 9 runoff between candidates from each major party who defeated 11 others Nov. 4. With early voting kicking off Friday, Democrat Eileen Higgins, a former county commissioner, appears to have an edge in vote-by-mail support against Republican Emilio González, a Trump-endorsed former city manager.
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