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resources in a targeted fashion. to increase funding for police while others defunded police. for that reason, we have the lowest homicide rate last year since 1964. i was born in 1977. we re 40% below that number. as i talked about a lot, i focus on prosperity. i want to create the kind of economy for my children and my grandchildren that leans in to innovation. we re number 1 in the nation in wage growth and tech job growth and have the lowest unemployment in america. that s the kind of pro america story that will allow us to complete with the chinas in to the next generation. neil: let me ask you about that. you talk about this from your perch as the mayor of miami. critics say that job as important as it is a ceremonial one. i had a chance to catch up with carlos jimenez that looks at that as an unqualifier for you when it comes to running for
so what is to stop republicans from hearing that and saying, he s not one of us? well, first of all, you haven t made it to how i m a hater. you don t want to be someone from your back yard. i think congressman jimenez has not taken his ginko. he voted for hillary clinton in 2016. i voted for a republican in 2016 and i voted for a republican in 2020. i wrote in marco rubio, my good friend in 2016 and i wrote in mike pence in 2020. so i have no idea where he s getting his facts from. neil: did you write in or vote for donald trump? he was at the head of the ticket. why not? just curious. no, i didn t. i voted for the person who i thought would be best to be president at that time. so you led the program talking about am i running for president. i tell you i am and the reasons
former miami-dade county mayor and current congressman jimenez really just roasted him when suarez got in the race. there are a lot of critics in city hall. or around city hall. city of miami residents who say look, we like the message that suarez is saying in that video, optimistic message, talking about fighting for the little guy, but they re not saying his record meets his rhetoric. so what s interesting here also. i mentioned him during covid, right, when he was on the national stage and you know, open about it and following the protocols. he voted for i know from your reporting, he s voted both sides, right? he s not like a die hard republican. from his voting record, is he? yeah. he s not. i think he announced he voted for hillary clinton. he had voted for andrew gilliam in 2018. very progressive candidate who ran against desantis that year and i think he also said he
voted for joe biden or at least he didn t say he voted for trump in 2020. jimenez mentioned that as well. so obviously, he s the mayor in the same city where trump is facing criminal charges. so if you didn t see him during covid on the national stage, you saw him the other day when he was talking about the preparations the city of miami made for the indictment on the security front. is he going to do anything to directly take trump on? i have no idea. one of the things he s, one of the reasons i think he doesn t really want the talk about trump s indictment the suarez himself might be under federal investigation as well. there s a developer in miami who needed permitting help and he was paying the mayor as much as $170,000. as much 10$10,000 a month and t mayor s office helped clear up some of his permitting problems. this is one of the many questions he s going to have about his record. what s your record of leadership here in miami? we have what s called a weak mayor system in m