Miami Elects Democrat Mayor

Fox News Radio's Eben Brown joins us to discuss the first Democrat mayor elected in Miami in decades. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Get back to complete team coverage of the storm that
is rolling through. We just made it through phase one
of this thing. We will give you more details, but
tell you that there are a ton of cancelations at
Woodradio dot com. Miami has had a Republican mayor for
decades until Evan Brown with Boxing News Radios in Miami

(00:22):
this morning. Evan, thanks for doing this today.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
So what happened yesterday?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Well, I think what happened is, you know a lot
of people are looking at is this some kind of
tea leaves for voter sentiments about President Trump or Congressional
Democrats or the parties are at large? I don't know
if that's really true. This is an off year runoff election.
The actual election was back in November, and the City
of Miami's mayoral election is nonpartisan and requires someone to

(00:53):
get more than fifty percent of the vote in order
to be elected. So when that didn't happen, the top
two go to a runoff. So happened. The top two
happened to be a Republican and a Democrat. Local Democrats
and Florida State Democrats and even national Democratic organizations put
a lot of interest into this race and it's peculiar

(01:14):
because this is a part time mayor's.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Job in Miami.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, here's the thing, y'all think of Miami. When I
say Miami, y'all think Miami Dade County. You think Miami Beach,
you think the Row, you think Kendall, you think Miami
Gardens where the Dolphins play. That's not Miami. We're talking
about the city of Miami, which in terms of land
mass is less than two percent of Miami Dade County.

(01:41):
In terms of population, it's less than a fifth. I mean,
there's a two point seven million people in Miami Dade County.
There's four hundred and fifty thousand in the city. There's
only one hundred and seventy five or so thousand registered voters.
Turnout in an off year runoff was only twenty one percent.
This is very very low turnout. In fact, the decision,

(02:04):
the difference at the end of the day was about
seven thousand and eight thousand votes.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
I had no night telling.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
The Republicans Republicans couldn't have found another eight thousand people
to come vote. Now, let me explain where the differences
really were. Okay, the Democrat now mayor elect Eileen Higgins
had about ten thousand plus people vote for her by mail,
Republican Emilio Gonzalez only about fifty five hundred. She had
basically had two to one on that because in person

(02:35):
early voting the difference was about one hundred and thirty votes.
She won by one hundred thirty votes of that crowd,
and on election day in person voting she won by
a little less than two thousand.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well you have it. We are on a time because
of the snowstorm, but I'm glad we had time to
catch up. Great clarification. Fox News Radios. Evan Brown in Miami,
Thanks for your time.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Take care, guys,