Overview
- Election Day is Dec. 9 after a 13-candidate Nov. 4 contest yielded no majority, with Eileen Higgins at about 36% and Emilio González at 19.5%.
- Higgins is staging Sunday get-out-the-vote stops across the city with U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego as part of a concentrated early-vote push.
- Republican leaders including President Donald Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Rick Scott are backing González, while prominent Democrats are rallying to Higgins.
- Higgins centers her platform on affordable housing, expanding the City Commission to nine seats, and ending Miami’s 287(g) cooperation with ICE.
- González emphasizes permitting reform, broader tax relief, limited police cooperation with ICE, and a Deregulation Task Force, and he opposes expanding the commission.