Miami-Dade County local elections 2020: Mayor, State Attorney, & more…

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I think there should be a thread for Miami-Dade local elections. This is of course the largest county in Florida with nearly 2.7 million residents, so the County Mayor is arguably the most important executive in the state after the governor.

Here we can discuss the county mayoral election, pitting major candidates like County Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava (D), former County Mayor Alex Penelas (D), County Commissioner Xavier L. Suarez (NPA), and County Commissioner Esteban Bovo (R) against one another to succeed Mayor Carlos Giménez (R) who is term-limited.

For State Attorney (which is what Florida calls the position most Americans may know as "district attorney"), we have the 27-year incumbent Kathy Fernández-Rundle (D) facing the stiffest challenge of her career from former prosecutor and ACLU official Melba V. Pearson (D). Rundle is infamous for failing to charge a single police officer with a crime in her entire tenure as State Attorney, including in the case of Darren Rainey (**warning, graphic images at that link), a mentally ill Black man who was boiled to death by police in a scalding shower at a Miami-Dade prison in 2012. Pearson has pledged to end such public corruption if she is elected to the position.

And so that we don't end on a sad note, I'm including this tweet from mayoral candidate Bovo, who recently had Senator Marco Rubio pretend to phonebank for him: https://twitter.com/billycorben/status/1293568181391495168?s=21

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I'm hoping Daniella Levine Cava and pull off the mayoral race.

Same here. I just voted on Monday for Daniella and Melba Pearson. Though the mayoral race will almost certainly go to a November run-off between Daniella and whoever gets 2nd place, with Penelas and Bovo fighting for that spot.

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It's hilarious how if Suarez wins, father & son will respectively be County Mayor & City Mayor. So Miami. But I think the top-2 run-off is gonna be Penelas (his poll numbers are decent & his fundraising is a monster) vs. Bovo (as the guy most Republicans vote for), & Penelas wins that since Dade is a big (non-Atlas) blue county in presidential years.

But who knows? Could also be Penelas vs. DLC on Nov. 3rd.

Interesting. What makes you think DLC won't make it? She's been leading in the few polls that were taken, and her campaign is literally everywhere in the county.