The following sentence represents the lowest threshold for political “success” in U.S. history: Americans should be actively hoping that Donald Trump turns out just like Florida Gov. Rick Scott. For many Floridians, that idea goes down as easily as a milkshake made from cigarettes and cat litter.
Miami-Dade County overwhelmingly rejected Donald Trump in this year’s presidential election. This past Friday, Miami residents reminded the world that the city really doesn’t like the guy: Protesters shut down two highways to make sure the nation knows Trump’s racist, anti-immigrant policies won’t fly here.
Over the weekend, a Columbia University professor from Turkey, N. Turkuler Isiksel, shared his best advice for fighting Donald Trump if his administration turns toward autocracy. “Protest early and often,” wrote Isikel, who lived through the rise of the democratically elected strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The Florida Democratic Party hasn’t won a governor’s race in Florida since 1994 but in recent years has been totally unwilling to invent a new strategy to change that streak. For the past four elections, like clockwork, the party has nominated a milquetoast Tampa-area centrist. And for the past four cycles, they’ve all lost.
Miami often acts as a bellwether for the nation’s issues. After all, the Magic City is a majority-minority community with serious affordability, transportation, and climate problems. If Miami finds a way to beat those challenges, that’s a great sign for the rest of the country.
If you want to snap Miami out of its warm, tropical stupor, you shut down its highways. At 6 last night, a few hundred Miamians upset by Donald Trump’s ascendance to the presidency gathered outside the entrance to the Bayfront Park Amphitheater downtown. The crowd quickly spilled into the…
There are a hell of a lot of Democrats in Florida. In fact, more of them are registered here than Republicans. Obama won the state twice. And the blue party has demographics on its side thanks to a growing, left-leaning Hispanic population.
So much for that whole “Donald Trump deserves a shot” mentality Hillary Clinton was advocating yesterday. Thousands of Trump’s opponents — a multicolored coalition of civil-rights reformers, immigration activists, criminal-justice critics, LGBTQ allies, and others — have already taken to the streets around the nation to protest…
Cable television failed the American public in many ways this election cycle. But perhaps its biggest failure was letting the candidates get through three debates without asking a single question about climate change. For South Floridians, neither candidate was forced to answer any substantive questions about how he or she would handle the…
In 1837, white men in Florida first floated the idea of draining a swamp. Men, who’d traveled from the north and had no real business being there, saw a wide, slow-moving sheet of shallow water barbed with sawgrass as a threat, a scourge, and a waste of valuable real estate…
Well, here we are. It’s been 17 months since Donald Trump announced his candidacy by declaring that Mexican immigrants are criminals and rapists. It’s also been two days since the FBI announced it won’t charge Clinton for her deleted emails, but those last 48 hours somehow managed to feel longer…
Kate Jacobson had already picked out her seats and keyed in her credit card number for a last-minute flight to Fort Lauderdale when she decided to check the mailbox one last time. For weeks she’d been waiting at it “like a lovestruck teen,” but her absentee ballot was a no-show.
Florida sure looks like it’s on the verge of legalizing medical marijuana. Poll after poll shows Amendment 2 riding well above the 60 percent threshold needed to pass. And although casino magnate and Trump BFF Sheldon Adelson has dropped $1.5 million to defeat the measure, that’s way less than he…
In a year when an orangutan-colored casino franchiser wants to become president and grab the nation’s women by their you-know-whats, it’s easy to ignore the smaller local races. But it’s possible that Greg Capra, a man running for city commission in tiny Sunny Isles Beach might be the most entertaining candidate in Miami’s down-ballot elections.
If you’re even the tiniest bit etiquette-minded, you’ve probably spent the past year politely changing the subject when your dad, boss, or Aunt Sally starts talking about why Shillary belongs in jail or when your college roommate blathers on and on about why he’s expending his vote on Jill Stein.
We’re at the point in this election cycle where time seems to slow down and stop functioning like normal. Candidates appear, speak, and then reappear just days later, having somehow criss-crossed the entire country. With just one weekend left before Election Day, the candidates’ planes are in overdrive: Today, Clinton will…
Scott Melker lived in the same freshman dorm at UPenn as Donald Trump Jr.
Donald Trump’s longtime supporters knew the drill at this point. Once Trump started name-dropping the “lying,” “dishonest,” “liberal” media corralled into a pen at Miami’s Bayfront Park today, the audience wheeled around and started shouting obscenities at them, per usual. A “CNN Sucks” chant bounced up from the crowd, to…
Whether you are a “nasty woman” or a “bad hombre,” this election cycle has been some kind of joke. And soon the electorate will deliver its punch line: “GOP, you’re fired!” Though the boundless bizarre badinage of the presidential race is getting more attention than your 13-year-old cousin on Instagram,…
When unarmed Miami Gardens teenager Trayvon Martin was gunned down by wannabe cop George Zimmerman in 2012, protests erupted across the nation. Many demonstrators wore hoodies to push back against suggestions that Martin’s clothing choice had made him “suspicious.” The entire Miami Heat team, including LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, even took part.
We know: You’re tired of it. We, too, are tired of it. You’re tired of seeing Donald Trump’s face. You’re tired of hearing Hillary Clinton say the phrase “Trumped-up, trickle-down” over and over. You’re tired of the bickering and the fighting and the insults and that whole maybe-America-might-actually-end feeling you’ve had since September.
After months of savage campaigning, untold hours of blowhards screaming at one another on television, and hundreds of millions of dollars spent on advertising, Florida’s vital 29 Electoral College votes are poised on a knife’s edge. The fate of the presidential election could well hinge on a few thousand votes in the…
