Running for President. Sees path to a nomination.

0:00 Speaker 1 What is today is Francis Suarez, an American lawyer, a politician, and serving as the forty third mayor of Miami. This week, he said that he wants to run for president with US Francis Suarez, Mayor Suarez, what’s going on?

0:17 Speaker 2 Well, thank you, John for having me. It’s a pleasure to always be with you and change the conversation in America. We want it to be a conversation that focuses on what we’re for, not what we’re against. And I think a conversation where you’re talking about the future of this country in a positive, inspirational, and unifying way is a

0:39 different conversation than the one that we’ve been having. One that can create generational prosperity instead of a generational inflation, one that can solve big problems like immigration. And I think a Hispanic Republican president would be in the best position to do that, and one that understands how to confront the dynamism of China that is both an economic

0:59 and now in increasingly a national security threat to the United States.

1:03 Speaker 1 I mean, there’s so many things happening in the United States. People are starting to really get worried about our borders, They’re worried about what’s going on with Vetanoil, what’s going on with our universities, what’s going on in Washington. Not even the Saudi Arabians, who are loyal allies, believe what’s going on in the White House anymore. What say you

1:30 about that?

1:31 Speaker 2 I say that they should be worried. I say that we haven’t been a good friend to the Middle East. I say that we’ve unfortunately, our policies have been incredibly disruptive in terms of our projecting American strength, which is something that we’ve gotten accustomed to in my lifetime and we’ve gotten away from in this presidency. You know, I

1:50 never thought that I would say that we can live in a world where in America the poor getting poor, America is getting weaker, and if we don’t do anything different, China could become the lone superpower in the world. In my lifetime. That is not the kind of country that I want my children to grow up in. I have

2:10 two children, a nine year old and a five year old, and I want to give them every single opportunity in this dynamic economic environment that we’re in that’s becoming increasingly knowledge based, increasingly digital, for them to succeed, And the only way that’s going to happen is if we position ourselves to win these generational economic battles like we’ve been

2:28 doing them in Miami.

2:30 Speaker 1 Now you’re of Latin background, how many Hispanic Latins are there in America?

2:38 Speaker 2 There is a growing percentage. It’s about twenty percent of the country, which is roughly sixty million people. And I think it’s the key to winning. You know, oftentimes some of these presidential elections come down to forty fifty thousand votes nationally. When you think about what would it how much votes you’d have if you changed one or two

2:57 or three or four, five or ten percent of the history vote, it would be earth shattering. It would be generational in its impact. And I think I’m focused on not just winning the election in twenty twenty four. I’m focusing on our generation of elections where Republican candidates can attract young voters that we lost to Biden by twenty

3:16 six points, that they can attract people in cities that I won by eighty five percent and then was re elected in eighty percent and changed Mimy Day County from a plus thirty four Democrats to a plus ten for Republicans a forty point swing. That’s the kind of change that we can get, including Hispanics and of course suburban women,

3:33 which are you know, the quintessential swing voters in America that often decide presidential elections. So I think you know, what I have to offer is unique. It’s a combination of public sector experience, private sector experience with an inspiring, unifying message, which I don’t think any other candidate, frankly is offering.

3:52 Speaker 1 Well, if you couldn’t sleep at three o’clock in the morning, what do you think the number one problem, missful our country.

4:01 Speaker 2 The number one problem, if you ask Americans, is inflation. The number one long term problem is China. Inflation is a problem because we cannot get out of our own way. In terms of federal spending. We don’t know how to balance our budgets. We have been doing it for a long time. But if you look at local governments, take

4:19 governments and families in the kitchen table, they all balance their budget. In fact, we have the largest surplus in our history. We also have the highest bond rating in our history. And that requires discipline. It requires making tough choices, and it requires having courage and when you’re budgeting. We cannot continue to live this fictitious life where we’re having

4:38 these debt seialing debates every other year and on the precipice of catastrophic financial failure in the world markets. That’s number one and number two when you think about China, what they’re doing with Fentanel, like you said, killing eighty to ninety thousand Americans on an annual basis, using our trade deficit and the stealing of our pedis, avertis in

4:58 our hemisphere, out maneuvering us in places like Africa, trying to broker piece between Saudi and Iran. I mean, it’s just a really scary world when China is the aggressor and China is threatening Taiwan, the China, South China, Sea, Japan.

5:14 I mean, it’s it’s it’s it’s really bad.

5:17 Speaker 1 Mayor Francis Suarez Miami, thank you so much for coming on. Would you please keep us informed as your campaign goes on?

5:24 Speaker 2 Absolutely, John, you know I always do.

5:26 Speaker 1 Thank you, you got it.