Miami’s Republican mayor was the first dropout of the presidential cycle, only 76 days into a longshot campaign. Where does that leave him?
Francis Suarez was a long way from home. It was late July, a month and a half into his doomed presidential campaign, and the 45-year-old second-generation Miami mayor was in Des Moines, trying to make a dent in the imaginations of conservative Iowans. He was an improbable candidate to take the banner from Donald Trump: a relatively moderate Republican from a city of immigrants who wasn’t much for the culture wars.
There was booze. There was a Mexican quartet playing cumbias, and during breaks, Suarez’s people would blare Pitbull and Celia Cruz from their speaker. He had returned to his second-floor office in the repurposed Pan Am seaplane terminal that now serves as city hall, in Coconut Grove, with a view of palm trees dancing in the breeze and little cruiser boats idling on Biscayne Bay. “You reconnect with a part of the country that is the heart and soul of the country,” he told me of his brief campaign, focusing on positives.
In the campaign, Suarez was a Miami Man among Florida Men. His father, Xavier, was also Miami’s mayor. Francis rose up through lower-level city posts in Miami by spreading a next-generation, pro-innovation message that could renovate a wooden local government. A lawyer in the flush real estate industry, Suarez proved to be an adroit fundraiser, handily besting his mayoral opponents in 2017 and 2021 even though none presented a real electoral threat.
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