Boca Raton Mayor Scott Singer has announced a run for Congress in Florida. (Getty)
"The Republican Party has become the party of the middle class," he said, pointing to proposals to eliminate taxes on overtime and tips, strengthen domestic manufacturing and bring jobs back to the U.S. "These are the things that are helping the middle class, higher wages, lower inflation and lower costs."
The mayor drew a sharp contrast with today’s Democratic Party, arguing it has moved too far to the left to deliver practical solutions.
"Unfortunately, the Democratic Party of today is not our parents’ Democratic Party," Singer said. "With an increasingly out-of-touch, far-left progressive party, it’s hard for common-sense solutions to come out of that."
Singer said his experience in local government has shown him what effective governance looks like — and what Washington is missing.
"At the local level, we’ve excelled because we have to," Singer said. "We have balanced budgets. We can’t shut down the government. We have to pick up the trash every day and deliver essential services. And we do that by finding common ground."
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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks to members of the media at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in the Queens borough of New York on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. (Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
"It's hard to predict how bad the economic situation is going to be, but Mamdani doubled down at last week's debate and said it's about time we raised taxes, and he was grateful for it," Singer said. "When he's proposing a 17% marginal tax rate for New York City residents between state and local taxes, that's 17% that they can simply give up by moving here and with jobs more mobile because of technology and with companies finding great office space here, there's less and less reason for people to stay there."
Singer continued, "I think one year out, you're going to see a substantial exodus of companies that are able to move. Two years out, we're going to see depressed values, more unemployment, higher crime. And four years out? We don't know. I think at that point, they'll be ready for a new mayor if what we expect to happen in November happens."
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