Miami Mayor Francis Suarez joined ‘My View with Lara Trump’and had a warning about NYC candidate Zohran Mamdani.
Suarez, whose parents fled communist Cuba, had a stern warning for NYC residents thinking of voting for the far-left socialist Zohran Mamdani.
Lara Trump: Mayor Suarez, thank you so much for having us here in your beautiful city of Miami. You have been very vocal recently about the fact that New York City may fall under socialist leadership coming up very soon with Zohran Momdani. Give me your whole read on what happens if New York City becomes run by a socialist.
Mayor Suarez: It’s not good for New York City, I can tell you that much. It’s very scary. We were born in the city of Miami out of the trauma of having fled our country of birth, which was Cuba. My dad came at 12, my mother at seven.
And there, a young, charismatic leader, not too different from Momdani, said, “Convince the population, give us all your property, give us all your businesses, and we’ll make everybody equal.”
And he did.
He made everybody equally poor.
He made everybody equally miserable, he made everybody equally repressed.
The city will, unfortunately, have a tremendously massive exodus of people probably coming to Miami, to be honest. It’s sad. It’s sad to see one of America’s great cities fall victim to.
It’s a lie.
Lara Trump: Well, as you said, you are the child of Cuban immigrants, and I would say that your family is the American dream. Your dad was actually mayor here in Miami back in the ’80s, but your family fled communism in Cuba. If you could give a warning to New York City residents, people who right now, Mayor Suarez, are thinking, “Maybe I’ll vote for Mamdani in this upcoming mayoral race.” What would you say to them?
Mayor Suarez: I would say to them, Don’t do it. I would say, run in the opposite direction.
As you said, my dad came to this country in the ’60s. He was a ninth of 14 kids, got a full scholarship to high school, presidential scholarship to university, two graduate degrees from an Ivy League school, and was the first Cuban mayor of Miami. It is absolutely the American dream story. And we feel part of the reason why I’m in public service is because I feel I owe a great debt, not only to my city where I was born and raised in, but to this incredible country, the best country in the world.
And in Miami, we follow three very basic principles. We keep taxes low, we keep people safe, we lean into American innovation. And so we’ve lowered taxes to the lowest level ever. We’ve grown 150% in the last 10 years. We kept people safe. This year, we’re on the precipice of having our lowest homicide rate ever in history. And we lean into innovation. We’ve grown an innovation economy here where we have the lowest unemployment in America and the highest median wage.
Lara Trump: What lessons do you hope that maybe New York City residents can learn from Cuba and hopefully not make those mistakes themselves?
Mayor Suarez: Just look at Cuba. Cuba is a time capsule. I mean, it has decayed over decades. And then you got to think about where New York is present day. Forget about Momdani’s policies, which are just going to make things worse. But you’re paying close to 60% of your income taxes, today, to a government. What does that mean?
That means that government is your business partner and you’re the minority partner. You’re not even getting more than 50% of what you earn right now. It is a bad business proposition. If Momdani increases taxes on the wealthy, and that’s always a very subjective definition of who is wealthy and in his mind versus reality, it’s just going to push more and more people away from New York.
Lara Trump: Something else Momdani is running on, however, is increasing funding, a massive degree of funding, for the legal defense of illegal immigrants. This is going to cost New York City somewhere around $100 million out of the city budget. I don’t know where he’s going to get all that money.
Mayor Suarez: He doesn’t know either.
Lara Trump: Well, right. But what is your take on that?
Mayor Suarez: Democrats want to fund health care for illegal immigrants rather than take of the people who are here legally in this country.
Look, we all acknowledge that the immigration system may need fixing or may need to be reworked. And that’s something that both parties have struggled with over time.
But what’s indisputable is the border has to be secured.
We need an immigration policy that’s, in my opinion, indexed to some of our important metrics, like our birth rate declining, our unemployment rate, and our growth rate. These are the indicators that should influence legal immigration. And if we do that right, then hopefully we’ll have people that are coming here legally, not illegally. And so it’s hard for me to understand where this rhetoric comes from unless it’s just to support the Democratic Party, which is leaderless and rudderless and needs more voters from somewhere.
Lara Trump: Yeah. Do you feel like that Mamdani, AOC, these are the new faces of the Democrat Party?
Mayor Suarez: Unfortunately, that may be the case. I think if that is the case, first of all, I think the Democratic Party is in big trouble. I think what we’re going to see, I don’t want this to happen in New York, to be honest. But if it does happen, and it looks increasingly likely we’re not even a month away from the election, what’s going to happen is there’s going to be a very, very quick descent even further than what we’ve seen over the last decade in New York. They used to joke that De Blasio was Miami’s best realtor. So maybe Momdani will take take his place there. But it’s sad because you never want to see a great American city falter. But we are seeing the rise of another great American city that’s taking advantage of what other cities are doing wrong, and that’s Miami.
Watch the full interview here.
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