Miami Mayor Eileen Higgins is blunt about what she thinks voters rewarded in her election: competence over ideology and results over messaging. Democrats, she argues, don’t need rebranding. They need to deliver.
“Run on things that matter to the people you need to vote for you,” Higgins told Newsweek in an exclusive wide-ranging interview. “Then, when you get elected, do those things. Deliver on your promises.”
Higgins’ victory returned the mayor’s office to Democratic hands for the first time in three decades, defeating a Trump-backed Republican in a city long seen as moving right. But she resists framing the result as some kind of national ideological statement. Instead, she points to a focused campaign centered on housing affordability, city services and ethics in government…