Francis Saurez says a lot of undocumented immigrants are law-abiding, helping US economy

CONTINUES RIGHT NOW. WELCOME BACK TO OUR CONVERSATION WITH THE CANDIDATE AND OUR CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR, FRANCIS SUAREZ OF MIAMI, A REPUBLICAN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO GET TO AS MANY OF OUR TOWN HALL QUESTIONS WITH NEW HAMPSHIRE VOTERS AS WE POSSIBLY CAN. I'VE GOT SOME ONLINE QUESTIONS AS WELL. MIGHT JUMP IN WITH A FOLLOW UP HERE AND THERE. BUT WE WANT TO GET THINGS STARTED RIGHT NOW WITH GEORGE ADAMS. THANK YOU FOR COMING TODAY, MAYOR SUAREZ. PLEASE DESCRIBE YOUR FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE AND IF YOU FEEL YOU HAVE GAPS, HOW WOULD YOU FILL IN THOSE GAPS? GREAT. THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION. FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE. SO FIRST OF ALL, I'M THE MAYOR OF A VERY INTERNATIONAL CITY, THE CITY OF MIAMI, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, SOME CALL IT THE CAPITAL OF LATIN AMERICA. SO I'VE MET WITH FOREIGN LEADERS, PARTICULARLY IN OUR HEMISPHERE, BUT WAS ALSO THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S CONFERENCE OF MAYORS. SO I WAS PRESIDENT OF ALL THE MAYORS IN THE UNITED STATES. AND BECAUSE OF THAT, I GOT TO TRAVEL THE WORLD. AND SO I MET LEADERS THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST, INCLUDING THE LEADERS OF ISRAEL, QATAR, SAUDI ARABIA, THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES SPENT TIME IN ASIA, IN JAPAN, AND TALKED TO THEM ABOUT THE THREAT OF CHINA IN KOREA AS WELL. SO I'VE TRAVELED EXTENSIVELY, MET WITH THE LEADERS ACROSS THE WORLD. I WOULD SAY, OF THE POOL OF CANDIDATES. I'D PROBABLY MET WITH MORE WORLD LEADERS THAN I'D SAY PROBABLY HALF OF THEM IN TERMS OF GAPS. I MEAN, THERE'S ALWAYS GAPS. I THINK EVERY CANDIDATE WOULD SAY THAT THERE'S GAPS. THERE'S PLACES THAT HAVEN'T VISITED. THERE'S ADVERSARIES HAVEN'T LOOKED EYE TO EYE WITH. I'VE NEVER MET PUTIN. VLADIMIR PUTIN I'M NOT SO SURE I WANT TO. BUT IF, AS PRESIDENT, I WOULD OBVIOUSLY HAVE TO. I'VE NEVER MET XI. YOU KNOW, FROM CHINA. SO THERE ARE THINGS I HAVEN'T DONE. BUT I THINK WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR IN TERMS OF A FOREIGN POLICY CANDIDATE IS A, THE RIGHT PHILOSOPHY, BE THE RIGHT CHARACTER. IT'S GOT TO BE SOMEONE THAT UNDERSTANDS WHAT THE THREATS ARE, CAN FACE THOSE THREATS AND HAS THE COURAGE TO DEAL WITH THEM AND ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU KNOW, OUR COUNTRY IS IN FLUX. WE ARE MORE CONCERNED ABOUT SOME OF THESE FOREIGN POLICY THREATS. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE'RE A BIT RUDDERLESS, IN MY OPINION. RIGHT. THINK ARE HASTY AND SORT OF INCOMPETENT. WITHDRAWAL FROM FROM AFGHANISTAN HAS CREATED A VOID WHERE WE'VE PROJECTED WEAKNESS IN THE WORLD AND THAT IS EMBOLDEN OUR ENEMIES. I MEAN, IF YOU'RE IF YOU ARE PUTIN I'VE READ A LOT ABOUT THEM, BY THE WAY. IF YOU ARE PUTIN OR YOU ARE XI AND YOU HAVE TERRITORIAL AMBITIONS, YOU HAVE A SORT OF A VISION FOR HOW YOU WANT YOUR COUNTRY TO LOOK. RIGHT. THE QUESTION IS, DOES IT GET ANY BETTER FOR YOU THAN AT THIS MOMENT WITH THE CURRENT PRESIDENT THAT WE HAVE? YOU KNOW, SOMEONE WHO'S STRUGGLING SOMETIMES TO JUST GET IT OUT THERE RIGHT. I DON'T THINK IT DOES GET ANY BETTER FOR THEM. AND THINK THEY'RE ACTUALLY WORRIED THAT A REPUBLICAN OR SOMEONE WHO'S YOUNG AND BOLD MIGHT GET ELECTED AND CHANGE THE SORT OF PERSPECTIVE OF HOW THE UNITED STATES IS VIEWED ACROSS THE WORLD. THANK YOU. QUICK, QUICK, FOLLOW UP FOR YOU, MARY. HOW CLOSELY WOULD A SUAREZ ADMINISTRATE IN FOREIGN POLICY MIRROR AMERICA? FIRST, WHAT TRUMP WAS DOING? YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW THAT I WOULD NECESSARILY DO IT THAT WAY. WHAT I WOULD DO, THE FIRST THING I WOULD DO IS I WOULD FINALLY, AS A ABRAHAM ACCORDS AND THINK THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS WERE WONDERFUL AND THEY WERE DONE BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WITH SAUDI ARABIA. I THINK THAT WOULD BE THE FIRST STEP THAT I WOULD TAKE, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, OUR RELATIONSHIPS IN THE MIDDLE EAST ARE BROKEN. WHEN YOU HAVE CHINA BROKERING PEACE BETWEEN SAUDI AND IRAN, THAT'S A PROBLEM VERY, VERY SCARY. THANKFULLY, SAUDI HAS GOTTEN INVOLVED IN THE UKRAINE, RUSSIA CONFLICT AND HOPEFULLY THERE'LL BE A SWIFT CONCLUSION TO THAT CONFLICT FOR ALL THE REASONS IMAGINABLE. BUT BUT THAT'S WHERE I WOULD START. AND I THINK WE'D HAVE TO START REBUILDING OUR FRIENDSHIPS AROUND THE WORLD. WE DON'T HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH ISRAEL RIGHT NOW. WE DON'T HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH A LOT OF MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES. AND I THINK JAPAN AND KOREA ARE BOTH VERY, VERY WORRIED ABOUT CHINA'S AGGRESSION, PARTICULARLY IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA. SO, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME SOME SERIOUS THREATS OUT THERE. AND I THINK A PRESIDENT OF SUAREZ PRESIDENCY WILL PROJECT AMERICAN STRENGTH. ALL RIGHT. NEXT QUESTION FROM JACK FARRINGTON. MAYOR SUAREZ, GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING IN MIAMI. YOU'VE GAINED NATIONAL ATTENTION FOR WORKING TO MODERNIZE THE ECONOMY. IF ELECTED PRESIDENT, WHAT WOULD YOU DO TO MODERNIZE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? WELL, FIRST, I'D BALANCE THE BUDGET. THAT'S THE FIRST THING WE HAVE TO DO. YOU KNOW, WHEN I FIRST GOT ELECTED IN 2009, PEOPLE THINK, OH, MIAMI, IT'S SO GREAT. EVERYTHING IS GREAT. WE'RE BROKE. LITERALLY BROKE. WE HAD $115 MILLION DEFICIT ON A $600 MILLION BUDGET. AND I WOULD ARGUE THAT I'M EITHER THE ONLY OR ONE OF THE ONLY CANDIDATES IN THE FIELD THAT'S ACTUALLY CUT A PUBLIC SECTOR BUDGET. IT'S NOT EASY. IT'S NOT FUN, BUT IT'S NECESSARY RIGHT NOW WE ARE SPENDING FICTITIOUS MONEY, YOUR MONEY. OKAY. HOW OLD ARE YOU? 18. YOU'RE MONEY. THAT'S THE MONEY THAT WE'RE SPENDING. AND SO WE'VE GOT TO COME BACK TO REALITY BALANCING ON OUR BUDGET IS GOING TO REDUCE OR ELIMINATE INFLATION AND INTEREST RATES. BIODYNAMICS MEANS THE POOR GET POORER. IN MY OPINION. THAT'S THAT'S MY VERSION OF BIODYNAMICS. THAT'S I THINK THEY'RE NOT NOT GREAT BRANDS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. THINK BIODYNAMICS LATINX YOU KNOW, HISPANICS ARE AS UNIQUE AS SAN ANTONIO TACOS. I THINK THOSE ARE ALL PROBLEMS. SO WHOEVER THEIR BRAND ROOTS ARE NEED TO BE FIRED. BUT BUT THE FIRST THING I WOULD DO IS BALANCE THE BUDGET. THEN THE SECOND THING I WOULD DO IS SO THAT'S SORT OF THE EXPENSE SIDE OF THE EQUATION, RIGHT? INTEREST RATES, INFLATION, THE FACT THAT WE'RE STARTING SCHOOL TODAY AND YOU KNOW, SCHOOL SUPPLIES ARE OUT OF CONTROL, GAS PRICES ARE BACK ON THE RISE. AND OF COURSE, GROCERIES ARE GETTING MORE AND MORE EXPENSIVE. RIGHT. EVERYDAY EXPENSES. BUT THE SECOND PART IS YOUR FUTURE. WE HAVE TO LEAN INTO THE DYNAMISM OF THE NEW ECONOMY, THE ECONOMY THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE GROWING UP IN, THAT MY CHILDREN ARE GOING TO BE GROWING UP. AND THAT IS A RADICALLY DIFFERENT ECONOMY THAN THE ONE THAT WE HAVE NOW. AND SO WHAT YOU ALL HAVE TO ASK YOURSELVES AS VOTERS, I TRY TO PUT MYSELF IN YOUR SHOES. WHAT YOU ALL HAVE TO ASK YOURSELVES IS, DO WE WANT A REPEAT OF THE 2020 ELECTION? IS THAT WHAT'S BEST FOR AMERICA? THE SAME TWO CANDIDATES, THE SAME PHILOSOPHY IS THAT WHAT'S BEST OR IS WHAT'S BETTER FOR YOUR FUTURE? FOR MY CHILDREN'S FUTURE, FOR ALL OF OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN'S FUTURE TO FIND SOMEONE THAT REALLY UNDERSTANDS HOW DISRUPTIVE THIS MOMENT IS IN OUR HISTORY AND CAN LEAN INTO IT AND CREATE AN ECONOMY THAT'S GOING TO CREATE HIGH PAYING JOBS. WE'RE NUMBER ONE IN THE NATION. IN MY CITY, IN WAGE GROWTH. WE HAVE THE LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT IN AMERICA. AND WE'RE NUMBER ONE IN TECH JOB GROWTH AND IN GEN Z WORKER, TECH WORKER. SO WE'VE ALL THESE MAJOR KPIS AND WE DID THAT BY REDUCING TAXES TO THE LOWEST LEVEL IN HISTORY WHILE BALANCING OUR BUDGET. WE HAVE THE HIGHEST RESERVES IN HISTORY. AND BY THE WAY, RIGHT WHEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WAS GETTING DOWNGRADED AND ITS CREDIT RATING, WE GOT UPGRADED. SO SO WE HAVE THE HIGHEST CREDIT RATING IN HISTORY BY S&P WHILE FITCH WAS DOWNGRADING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. SO WE'VE DONE IT RADICALLY DIFFERENT. AND THAT'S WHY SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE MOVING INTO OUR AREA. THANK YOU. NEXT QUESTION COMES FROM JOAN WENTWORTH. HI. GOOD EVENING, MR. MAYOR. GOOD. GOOD EVENING. GOOD MORNING. RIGHT, RIGHT. EXACTLY. GOOD DAY. YOU SEEM TO BE ON TRACK TO PARTICIPATE IN THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES DEBATE NEXT WEEK. THE GOD'S EARS. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT HAVING TO PLEDGE TO SUPPORT THE EVENTUAL NOMINEE IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE, EVEN IF THAT NOMINEE IS ULTIMATELY FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP? WELL, MANY OF YOU WHO MAYBE HAVE DONE RESEARCH ON ME KNOW THAT DID NOT VOTE FOR THE FORMER PRESIDENT. 16 OR 20. HOWEVER, AM A RULE FOLLOWER. AND I DO BELIEVE THAT IF YOU'RE GOING TO PLAY BY THE RULES OF THE PARTY AND THIS IS A PARTIZAN CONTEST AND PROCESS, THEY SET OUT SOME RULES. I'VE ABIDED BY THOSE RULES. THOSE RULES INCLUDE ALL OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT TO GET TO THE DEBATE STAGE. RIGHT. THE NUMBER OF CONTRIBUTORS, THE DISBURSEMENT OF THOSE CONTRIBUTORS AND STATES, THE POLLING REQUIREMENTS, EVEN THOUGH HAVE BEEN LEFT OUT OF A LOT OF PROPOSALS. I WAS JUST LEFT OUT OF THE EMERSON POLL OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, OF YOU GUYS, WHICH WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE BEEN IN ACTUALLY BEEN IN THE POLL TO SEE IF I WOULD HAVE QUALIFIED. SO WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT MORE POLLS ARE GOING TO BE COMING OUT OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. I DO FEEL LIKE I'M GOING TO QUALIFY, BUT I WILL SIGN THE LOYALTY PLEDGE. I DO THINK THAT IF WANT TO PLAY BY THE RULES OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, I NEED TO, YOU KNOW, FOLLOW THOSE RULES AND HAVE NO PROBLEM FOLLOWING THOSE RULES. THANK YOU. NEXT QUESTION, CAROLYN MORRELL HI THERE. HOW ARE YOU GOING TO HANDLE THE BORDER CRISIS THAT SEEMS TO BE GROWING DAILY? YEAH, I WAS THERE LAST WEEK. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I NOTICED AND I HAVE A PICTURE OF IT, I WISH I COULD SHOW IT TO YOU. I'LL SHOW IT TO YOU AFTER. IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LAST ADMINISTRATION'S BORDER WALL AND THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION'S BORDER WALL, THE LAST ADMINISTRATION'S BORDER WALL WAS ABOUT 30FT HIGH, COMPLETELY UNPASSABLE. THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION'S BORDER WALL, THEY RAN OUT OF FUNDS BECAUSE THEY STARTED HIRING 87,000 AGENTS. DO YOU THINK WE NEED 87,000 MORE IRS AGENTS? OKAY. DIDN'T THINK DON'T THINK SO EITHER. IF WE'RE GOING TO DEFUND ANYTHING, WHY DON'T WE DEFUND THE 87,000 IRS AGENTS AND THEN THE WALL THAT THEY CONTINUED MY NINE YEAR OLD COULD CLIMB IT. I MEAN, IT WAS LITERALLY I'M NOT I'M NOT BEING FACETIOUS. IT WAS THIS HIGH. SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION'S NOT TAKING THE CRISIS SERIOUSLY. YOU HAVE 80 TO 90,000 PEOPLE DYING OF FENTANYL. BIG PROBLEM IN HERE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, RIGHT? THAT'S THE EQUIVALENT OF A 747 CRASHING EVERY SINGLE DAY. WE NEED TO TAKE THE RESOURCES THAT WE'RE SENDING TO THE PUT THEM INTO THE BORDER WALL. RIGHT. WE NEED TO POWER CHINA, WHICH IS GETTING $300 BILLION OF OUR TRADE DEFICIT RIGHT NOW, BRING NEARSHORE AND ONSHORE SOME OF THAT PRODUCTION, WHICH, BY THE WAY, WILL ALSO HELP US WITH A VERY VULNERABLE SUPPLY CHAIN. WE SAW THAT DURING COVID, HOW VULNERABLE OUR SUPPLY CHAIN IS. AND WE REALIZED THAT ONE OF THE BIGGEST ISSUES WITH TAIWAN IS THAT THEY MANUFACTURE 80 AND 90% OF OUR ADVANCED MICROCHIPS. SO EVERY PHONE THAT'S IN YOUR POCKET RIGHT NOW IS MANUFACTURED WITH PARTS THAT ARE VULNERABLE TO THE UNITED STATES RIGHT NOW. SO ONCE WE DO THAT, WE'RE GOING TO CREATE MUCH MORE PROSPERITY IN OUR HEMISPHERE, WHICH WILL REDUCE IMMIGRATION PRESSURES. I THINK WE HAVE TO RIGHTSIZE LEGAL IMMIGRATION. OKAY. AND WE NEED TO PEG IT TO OBJECTIVE METRICS LIKE UNEMPLOYMENT, THE NEED FOR SKILLED AND UNSKILLED LABOR, THE FACT THAT WE HAVE A DECLINING BIRTH RATE. I MEAN, NONE OF THIS GETS TALKED ABOUT MEAN IT'S CRAZY TO THINK THAT WE NEED TO HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION DISCUSSION AND SOLUTION FOR OUR LIFETIME WHERE WE DON'T HAVE TO KEEP COMING BACK TO THIS, WHICH IS JUST BECOME A POLITICAL FOOTBALL FOR PEOPLE. RIGHT. AND THINK, AS THE FIRST HISPANIC REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT WOULD ALSO BE IN A GOOD POSITION TO NEGOTIATE WHAT'S NEEDED TO DEAL WITH THE UNDOCUMENTED AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS THAT ARE ALREADY HERE, THAT WE KNOW WE'RE NOT GOING TO WE CAN'T SORT OF TELEPORT THEM OUT OF THE COUNTRY. AND A LOT OF THEM ARE WORKING IN OUR SMALL BUSINESSES ARE DOING OR HELPING US. THEY'RE LAW ABIDING, DESPITE WHAT SOME OF THE RHETORIC IS OUT THERE. MY PARENTS CAME FROM CUBA 12 AND SEVEN. YOU KNOW, THEY WERE KICKED OUT OF THEIR COUNTRY OF BIRTH, WERE A LEADER, SAID, GIVE US ALL YOUR BUSINESSES, GIVE US ALL YOUR PROPERTY AND DON'T WORRY, WE'LL MAKE EVERYBODY EQUAL. AND THEY DID. HE MADE EVERYBODY EQUALLY MISERABLE AND EQUALLY POOR. RIGHT. AND SO THAT IS FUNDAMENTALLY UN-AMERICAN. THAT'S WHAT SHAPES WHO I AM AND THAT'S WHAT WILL SHAPE MY IMMIGRATION POLICY, INCLUDING THE BORDER. THANK YOU. QUICK FOLLOW UP FOR YOU, MR. MAYOR, ON THE EFFICACY OF BORDER BARRIERS. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT GOVERNOR ABBOTT HAS DONE WITH THE BOYS THAT HAVE BLADES IN BETWEEN? THE BOYS IN SOME CASES? LOOK, THINK I THINK HE'S AT SOME LEVEL IT'S DESPERATION, YOU KNOW, TO TRY TO CONTROL A SITUATION THAT'S BECOME A BIPARTISAN CRISIS. I THINK I HAVEN'T ACTUALLY SEEN THE BOYS. I'VE HEARD ABOUT THEM BECAUSE I WAS AT THE BORDER. AND I WOULD SAY THAT DURING THE DAY, I'VE BEEN TOLD THAT THEY'RE ACTUALLY TRYING TO HELP PEOPLE IN THE EVENT THAT YOU KNOW, PREVENT SOME SORT OF A HUMAN OR HUMAN ISSUE, HUMAN TRAGEDY AT NIGHT. YOU HOPE PARENTS ARE NOT TRYING TO CROSS ILLEGALLY WITH THEIR CHILDREN. I MEAN, THAT'S THAT'S JUST NOT RESPONSIBLE. SO, LOOK, I CAN UNDERSTAND THE FRUSTRATION THAT WOULD YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD SORT OF GIVE SOMEBODY THE IMPETUS TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT. NEXT QUESTION COMES FROM BEN BOLGER. HEY, BEN. HI, MAYOR. MY NAME IS BEN BOLGER. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. THANKS FOR HAVING ME. UM, BEING MAYOR OF A LARGE, DIVERSE CITY LIKE MIAMI TEACHES ONE IMPORTANT LEADERSHIP SKILLS. I WOULD HOPE SO. THAT CAN BE USED IN OTHER LEADERSHIP CONTEXTS. YES. SO WHAT SPECIFIC SKILLS HAVE YOU LEARNED THAT WILL UNIQUELY ENABLE YOU TO BE AN EFFECTIVE PRESIDENT? AND HOW CAN A BIG CITY MAYOR COME UP WITH UNIQUE SOLUTIONS TO NATIONAL URBAN PROBLEMS? I THINK THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. UM, I WOULD I MEAN, I COULD GO ON FOR A WHILE AND THAT'S WHAT I'M GOING TO TRY TO CONDENSE IT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. THINK FIRST THING THAT COMES TO MIND IS WHY DID WHY AM I RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT? SORT OF WHAT WHAT COMPELLED ME TO MAKE THIS DECISION AND THEN I'LL GET INTO THE SPECIFICS, RELATE TO MAYORAL LEADERSHIP, WHICH I THINK IS IMPORTANT. THE FIRST IS I KIND OF CREATED THIS PROTOTYPICAL LIKE SAID, PUT MYSELF IN THE VOTERS PERSPECTIVE. I KIND OF CREATED THIS PROTOTYPICAL CANDY, RIGHT. GENERATIONAL, NOT AS A BUZZWORD, BUT SOMEONE THAT CAN REALLY UNDERSTAND GENERATIONAL CHANGE AND HOW TO HOW TO MOVE AN ECONOMY IN A GENERATIONAL FASHION. SOMEONE WHO HAD A TRACK RECORD OF SUCCESS, I BELIEVE SOMEONE WHO'S POSITIVE. I ACTUALLY THINK BEING POSITIVE IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT AND UNIFYING AND THEN SOMEONE WHO COULD ARTICULATE A VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY WHEN I ARTICULATED THIS FICTITIOUS CANDIDATE, I COULDN'T FIND ANYBODY IN THE FIELD AND SO I STARTED THINKING TO MYSELF, WOW, DOES THIS ACTUALLY MEAN THAT, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE ALMIGHTY WANTS ME TO DO THIS? THIS IS A LITTLE CRAZY. UM, AND I FELT MORE AND MORE STRONGLY ABOUT IT, AS DID MORE AND MORE DUE DILIGENCE ON THE PROCESS. AS I'VE SHARED WITH YOU OFF AIR, IT'S NOT AN EASY DECISION. ENORMOUS SACRIFICES. I'VE NEVER BEEN THROUGH ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN MY LIFE, AND I'VE ONLY BEEN DOING IT FOR 62 DAYS. THE ONE THING I COULD TELL YOU IS IT'S GETTING A LITTLE WANTED. DON'T JINX IT, BUT IT'S GETTING A LITTLE EASIER EVERY DAY THAT I'M IN IT. THE LEARNING CURVE IS PRETTY STEEP IN TERMS OF MAYORAL LEADERSHIP. I THINK WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS, YOU KNOW, HURRICANES ARE NOT REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT LAST TIME CHECKED AND SO MAYORS HAVE TO SOLVE PROBLEMS AND THINK IT'S IT'S TIME THAT WE GIVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO A MAYOR TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT. WHY? BECAUSE WE'RE NOT FOCUSED ON BLAMING PEOPLE. WE DON'T HAVE THAT LUXURY. WE GO TO THE GROCERY STORE. WE GET CONFRONTED BY OUR RESIDENTS AND OUR CITIZENS EVERY DAY. WE HAVE TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM. WE CANNOT BLAME SOMEONE FOR IT AND THINK WHAT YOU'VE SEEN IN WASHINGTON AND I'M NOT TRYING TO PICK ON WASHINGTON, BUT IT'S TRUE. IT'S JUST THE BLAME GAME. YOU KNOW, IMMIGRATION IS A GREAT EXAMPLE, RIGHT? IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, IT'S A POLITICAL FOOTBALL. AND THAT DOESN'T SERVE OUR COUNTRY'S BEST INTEREST. I THINK AS A MAYOR, YOU'RE REQUIRED TO SOLVE PROBLEMS. I THINK FOR ME SPECIFICALLY, I THINK THERE'S THREE THINGS I WOULD SAY. THE FACT THAT I REDUCED AND CUT A PUBLIC SECTOR BUDGET AND WE HAVE TO DO THAT SAME EXACT THING AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, BY THE WAY, BY THE SAME PERCENTAGE. THE FACT THAT I'M A HISPANIC REPUBLICAN, I JUST ARTICULATED WHY I THINK THAT THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT IN THE CONTEXT OF ONE OF OUR BIGGEST PROBLEMS, WHICH IS IMMIGRATION. AND AND THIRD, I'M THE ONLY CANDIDATE THAT I'M AWARE OF THAT HAS RADICALLY CHANGED AN ECONOMIC ECOSYSTEM TO SORT OF EVOLVE IN A WAY THAT WILL CREATE GENERATIONAL PROSPERITY. I'M BIG INTO GENERATIONAL PROSPERITY BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE WHAT I'M DOING AND THE SACRIFICES I'M MAKING ARE NOT FOR ME. THEY'RE NOT FOR MY BENEFIT. THEY'RE FOR MY CHILDREN'S BENEFIT. AND SO I THINK IF WE START LOOKING A LITTLE BIT LONGER TERM AND NOT WORRIED ABOUT WHETHER WE BUY, YOU KNOW, GREEN BANANAS AND AND, YOU KNOW, SORT OF HORIZON ON THAT, I THINK WILL BE MUCH BETTER OFF AS A COUNTRY. AND LIKE I SAID, OFF AIR, I'M REALLY, REALLY INSPIRED. I'LL TELL YOU, THE BIGGEST TAKEAWAY FOR ME, SPENDING TIME IN IOWA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE IS THAT THE PROCESS BEGINS HERE WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE WHO LOVE THIS COUNTRY, WHO ARE CONSCIENTIOUS, WHO DO THEIR HOMEWORK, THEY DO THEIR DUE DILIGENCE AND AND I'VE ALWAYS FELT THAT IF I HAVE PEOPLE THAT DO THAT, THEN I'LL HAVE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE. THANK YOU. GOT ABOUT 90S LEFT. MR. MAYOR. THIS IS GONNA BE A TOUGH ONE TO ANSWER QUITE QUICKLY, THOUGH. HOW DO REPUBLICANS NEED TO WIN OVER HISPANIC VOTERS? WHAT DO THEY NEED TO DO DIFFERENTLY? I THINK THEY NEED TO ELECT A THEY NEED TO NOMINATE A HISPANIC CANDIDATE. THINK. I THINK LOOK, I WALKED INTO THAT ONE. BUT YEAH, BUT BUT LET ME POLICY. BUT LET ME BUT LET ME LET ME LET ME LET ME SORT IT BACK OUT OF THAT. LOOK, HISPANICS ARE LIKE EVERY AMERICAN. THEY LOVE THIS COUNTRY. THEY'RE THEY'RE THEY'RE LAW ABIDING. YOU KNOW, THEY LOVE THEIR FAMILY. A LOT OF THEM ARE FISCAL CONSERVATIVES, ETCETERA. RIGHT. I THINK I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT. I REALLY DO. THIS MAY SEEM SUPER OFFICIAL, BUT I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE SOMEONE THAT CAN SPEAK THEIR LANGUAGE. RIGHT. LITERALLY. WHY? BECAUSE THE HISPANIC CULTURES ARE VERY NUANCED AND THINK CALLING THEM LATINX FOR EXAMPLE. IT DOESN'T IT DOESN'T RESONATE WITH THEM. IT DOESN'T CONNECT. SAYING THAT THEY'RE AS UNIQUE AS SAN ANTONIO TACOS. THAT DOESN'T WORK. YOU NEED SOMEONE WHO REALLY CAN SPEAK TO THEM, THAT CAN UNDERSTAND THEIR ISSUES. AND LET ME BE VERY CLEAR ABOUT THIS QUESTION, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION. REGARDLESS OF WHAT SIDE OF THE POLITICAL AISLE YOU'RE ON, THAT'S 60 MILLION AMERICANS. OKAY. THE LAST POLL THAT SAW 20% UNDECIDED, DO THE MATH RIGHT. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE LAST TWO PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, DECIDED BY LESS THAN 100,000 VOTES. SO THE HISPANIC VOTE IS CRITICAL FOR THE 24 ELECTION AND BEYOND. AND THINK I'M THE BEST PERSON POSITIONED TO MOTIVATE THAT CLASS OF VOTERS TO VOTE FOR AND INSPIRE THEM TO VOTE FOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE; MAYOR FRANCIS SUAREZ. 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