“it’s something new,” said tomás regalado, who was mayor from 2009 to 2017. Higgins, who was backed by the democratic national committee, is also the first woman to be elected mayor of miami. Miami voters have their final chance tuesday to cast their ballots in the runoff election to determine the city’s new mayor.
Eileen higgins clinched victory in miami’s mayoral runoff election, according to multiple reports, marking the first democrat to win the office in almost 30 years and the first woman ever. For the first time in decades, a democrat has won the mayoral race in the city of miami in a race that drew national attention from both major parties, including republican president donald trump. Democrat wins miami's mayoral race for the first time in almost 30 years voters were deciding between higgins and emilio gonzalez in the miami mayoral runoff.
