Mayoral candidate Eileen Higgins waves and thanks her staff and supporters as she advances to a runoff during her election watch party at the Yotel in downtown Miami on Election Day, Nov. 4, 2025. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
She campaigned on affordability, restoring trust in Miami City Hall "by cutting red tape that stops homeowners and small businesses from moving forward," funding police and first responders, improving transportation, and protecting the environment, according to her campaign's website.
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City of Miami mayoral candidate Emilio González speaks during a press conference outside his Miami home July 16, 2025. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
He campaigned on modernizing city services, cutting property taxes, easing regulations for small businesses, boosting police presence and reducing government spending, according to his campaign's website.
He said at the mayoral debate Oct. 16, "We need reform and we need reform bad," after a loss of public trust in local government.
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"Our municipal government has failed our residents," he said at the debate. "That's why we're here, all of us. We've let them down. We've left them down and they don't trust us."
"Public service and being mayor has to be vocational," he added. "It isn't about making money, it isn't about making my ego bigger, it isn't about setting me up for another office or clickbait or this or that. It's vocational, you've got to want to do it."
The 2025 Miami mayoral race also included former Miami Mayors Joe Carollo and Xavier Suarez, the father of current Mayor Francis Suarez, and Alex Díaz de la Portilla, Christian Cevallos, June Savage, Alyssa Crocker, Elijah John Bowdre, Ken Russell, Laura Anderson, Michael Hepburn and attorney Kenneth James DeSantis, who is not related to Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Fox News Digital's Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.
Kiera McDonald is a Production Assistant for Fox News Digital.
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