Mayor Francis Suarezs View from Miami

Published: Nov. 1, 2022, 10 a.m.

b'Francis Suarez, the Republican mayor of Miami, is popular in the city he governs, and increasingly prominent beyond it. Conservative voices as disparate as Kanye West and George Will have floated him as a 2024 Presidential candidate. Suarez is a proudly dissident Republican: he loves tech companies, welcomes migrants, and thinks his party can lead the fight against climate change. He\\u2019s no culture warrior, and, though he shares a state with Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, he has kept both at arm\\u2019s length. So is he, Kelefa Sanneh wonders, a Republican at all? Suarez seems to be taking a long view. \\u201cLeadership,\\u201d he says, depends on whether \\u201cyou have the talent to articulate a message, a vision, and a plan to get people to a place where people will follow\\u2014even if maybe they\\u2019re not so sure, maybe they\\u2019re not that comfortable with it.\\u201d'