{"id":16473,"date":"2025-12-10T04:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-flip-miami-mayors-office-winning-control-for-first-time-in-nearly-30-years\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T04:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:20:18","slug":"democrats-flip-miami-mayors-office-winning-control-for-first-time-in-nearly-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-flip-miami-mayors-office-winning-control-for-first-time-in-nearly-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats flip Miami mayor&#8217;s office, winning control for first time in nearly 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Eileen Higgins has flipped the Miami mayor&rsquo;s office, defeating Republican Emilio Gonzalez and marking the latest sign of the party&#8217;s momentum heading into next year&#8217;s midterms, according to Decision Desk HQ.  Higgins is the first Democrat to become mayor of Miami since 1997. She bested Gonzalez&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/5641420-democrats-gain-momentum-miami\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Eileen Higgins has flipped the Miami mayor&rsquo;s office, defeating Republican Emilio Gonzalez and marking the latest sign of the party&#8217;s momentum heading into next year&#8217;s midterms, according to Decision Desk HQ. Higgins is the first Democrat to become mayor of Miami since 1997. She bested Gonzalez&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}