Jesse Scheckner
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez says he’s collected the requisite number of unique donations to qualify for the Republican presidential debate later this month.
Suarez, who launched an underdog bid for President in mid-June, announced he’s crossed the 40,000 unique donor threshold the GOP set for the debate set for Aug. 23.
“In less than six weeks my team and I have quite literally gone from zero to a hundred and we are confident that I will be on the debate stage in two weeks,” Suarez said Monday on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“If my party wants to beat Joe Biden, then we need to build a bigger and better tent, and I believe I can attract the Hispanic and suburban voters pivotal to winning back Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania that no other candidate can.
“I’ve done it in Miami, having won with 85% of the vote in a city that voted for Hillary Clinton by 30-points — and it’s time we do the same for America.”
I am extremely pleased to announce that my campaign has today passed the 40,000 unique donor threshold set by the @GOP to make the debate stage.
In less than six weeks my team and I have quite literally gone from zero to a hundred and we are confident that I will be on the… pic.twitter.com/sx6oAwhkmA
— Mayor Francis Suarez (@FrancisSuarez) August 7, 2023
While he’ll stand on even ground with more renowned party names like former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, South Carolina U.S. Sen. Tim Scott and former Vice President Mike Pence among many others, Suarez faces an uphill battle in the polls.
Among all candidates about which FiveThirtyEight has surveyed prospective voters, he’s placed dead last at 0.0%.
His popularity so far peaked in the second week of July, when 0.1% of respondents told the site’s pollsters they favored him.
A Cuban American and twice-elected Mayor, Suarez, 45, became the third Florida man to enter the Republican fray for President on June 14 — just over seven weeks ago.
He’s said on the campaign trail he offers a younger, more in-touch alternative to his Primary opponents, touting Miami’s quick rebound from the pandemic, his position as a Mayor of an urban city and his perspective on immigration as the only Hispanic in the contest among his most saleable assets.
7 comments
Earl Pitts "The Ronald's UnOfficial Real Campaign Manager" American
August 8, 2023 at 2:37 am
Congrats Frank,
It will be great to have a second Floridian up on the debate stage with the next POTUS Ron Desantis. We welcome you.
Trump? He’s a New Yorker regardless of where he pays his state tax…not one of us Frank.
BTW Frank I thought we discussed dropping the “Francis” and taking up the moniker of Frank like Frank Sinatra did.
Oh well welcome anyway.
Earl Pitts American
Miami guy
August 8, 2023 at 4:40 am
He can serve a very key role in being the final blow to desantis campaign. He can speak from first hand experience about how terrible Florida is being run.
Sonja Fitch
August 8, 2023 at 7:53 am
Chris Christie is THE ONE calling Desantis and Trump on their bs!! August 23 debate. The Desantis bs on the humans in Ukrain is perverted. Thousands of Ukrainian children have been Kidnapped by the f-ing Russians! What you think Desantis?
Pancho Villar
August 8, 2023 at 11:29 am
Hopefully, Francis will know what a Uyghur is when this debate takes place.
Dont Say FLA
August 8, 2023 at 3:50 pm
Uyghur, that’s a synonym for the shifty low life good for nothin’ Maggas. Uyghur is an odd spelling, but whatever, them Maggas can’t spell.
PeterH
August 8, 2023 at 12:01 pm
If every Republican Klown Candidate is allocated a five minute introduction followed by a three minute of closing statement ….. that should wrap up this one hour scheduled Fox debate!
Why not simply allow the twenty candidates to send their AI clones to the circus?
Miserable Republican politicians are America’s worst enemy!
Vote all Republicans out of office!
Dont Say FLA
August 8, 2023 at 3:49 pm
I am happy to hear Mayor Francis Suarez will be on the debate stage. That way folks will possibly have heard Suarez’s name by the time Rhonda falls to last place, taking Francis’ spot down there.
Rhonda needs to slow down his campaign’s rate of decline. At its current rate, nobody will have heard of Suarez quite yet when Rhonda steals last place from him.
How embarrassing would that be for Rhonda. I bet it would be so embarrassing that Utheimer, just installed for the fall, immediately takes that fall like Rhonda Showgirlsed him.
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