Miami Mayor Francis Suarez envisions a storm coming in the United States. But unlike most storms that hit Florida, this one will be good — if we are prepared for it. The political meteorologist in Suarez says the future contains “a tsunami of generational opportunity that’s coming before us in the digital economy.”
Suarez, a GOP presidential hopeful, hopes to watch the tsunami hit the U.S. from the windows of the Oval Office.
When I talk about growth in Miami, I’m not talking 1% or 2% growth, I’m talking DOUBLE-DIGIT growth.
— Mayor Francis Suarez (@FrancisSuarez) June 23, 2023
That’s the kind of growth America should be focused on, and in Miami, I made that possible by not attacking businesses, but by asking, 'how can I help?'#FXS24 pic.twitter.com/BHQdjITstr
Suarez has plenty to boast about as he makes the talk show rounds — from Larry Kudlow to The View — talking up Miami’s capital infusion through tech jobs, its lowered crime rates, its budget surpluses and more.
As a city, of course, Miami benefits from help from state and federal governments — still, the numbers are impressive and Suarez is suavely confident in presenting them.
As he transitions to the national stage, where does Suarez stand on the issues facing the country, not just Miami? Suarez is clear about a number of issues in his chat with Kudlow.
Suarez agrees with Kevin McCarthy‘s debt ceiling deal, he wants to make the “Trump tax cuts” for wealthy individuals permanent, and he favors a balanced budget — something all local politicians and governments do as a necessity because, unlike the U.S. government, they cannot print money.
Suarez says he has spoken to Donald Trump a “few times” but he does not have a relationship with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis because DeSantis is “not a relationship guy, as everyone knows.”
Suarez says it’s not personal, though it sounds like it might be. He says he supported DeSantis in the last election, but didn’t vote for him in the previous election. Why?
Because “I supported him in the primary,” Suarez says, “and never got a return phone call, never got a thank you.”
Notably, in what’s certainly another knock on DeSantis, Suarez writes in his caption that he made growth in Miami possible “by not attacking businesses, but by asking, ‘how can I help?'”
DeSantis, of course, has made attacking so-called “woke” businesses a key component of his campaign.
Suarez also notably doesn’t go all in on conspiracy theories about FBI misconduct, etc., even when invited to. He instead more generally laments an all-time low in Americans’ faith in their institutions and says he wants to restore that faith.
Unlike @JoeBiden and his son Hunter, the only thing my 9-year-old son will lobby me for is a puppy.#FXS24 pic.twitter.com/eLygEU8uuL
— Mayor Francis Suarez (@FrancisSuarez) June 22, 2023
Suarez does not, however — at least not yet — attack or call out the strategy embraced by many of his GOP colleagues aimed at continually undermining that institutional faith for political gain.
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