President Donald Trump has suffered another election blow, this time in his own backyard of Florida after Miami elected Democrat Eileen Higgins to be its new mayor, ending a three decade losing streak for her party.
Higgins will become the first woman to lead Miami, a Hispanic-majority city that was swayed by her attacks on the president’s crackdown on undocumented migrants and mass deportation push.
Trump spent Tuesday in Pennsylvania on the first leg of an “Affordability Tour” intended to reassure Americans about the state of the economy, in which he called cost of living concerns a “hoax”, blustered about the success of his first 10 months back in the White House, engaged in vicious anti-immigrant rhetoric and joked about his administration’s deadly strikes on alleged drug boats off Central America.
“I can’t say ‘affordability hoax’ because I agree, the prices were too high,” the president told his Mount Pocono crowd. “But they use the word ‘affordability’ and that’s their only word… our prices are coming down.”
Trump subsequently took to Truth Social to attack The New York Times for reporting negatively about his health, suggesting the newspaper’s coverage was “seditious, perhaps even treasonous.”
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Donald Trump suffers another defeat as Miami elects first Democrat mayor in 30 years
President Donald Trump has suffered another election blow, this time in his own backyard of Florida after Miami elected Democrat Eileen Higgins to be its new mayor, ending a three decade losing streak for her party in the city.
Higgins, 61, will become the first woman to lead Miami, a Hispanic-majority city that was swayed by her attacks on the president’s crackdown on undocumented migrants and mass deportation push, issues that threaten family members of many residents originating from Central America.
Despite the race officially being nonpartisan, she campaigned openly as a proud Democrat, ultimately defeating Trump-backed candidate Emilio Gonzalez, a former city manager, who has since called Higgins to offer his congratulations.
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Source: independent.co.uk