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Good morning, everyone. I'm Plaba co-author Ryan Liza. It's Friday, June 16th.

Yesterday, the Republican presidential primary field got a new contender, the 45-year-old mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez.

In a speech last night at the Reagan

Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, Suarez said this. It is time for a next

generation leader who has the vision to lead and the character to connect with everyone

by looking at them in the eyes and listening to them, not shouting at them, and lecturing them.

I actually saw Suarez while I was in Miami this week outside the courthouse where Trump was

arraigned, and I was eager to hear why the heck he's now running for president. So I caught up with

him over Zoom yesterday before his big Reagan Library speech.

Hey, can you hear me? Mayor, is that you? That's me. Now, Suarez, of course, like so many of the other

non-Trump candidates, is a serious underdog. But here are three things that stood out to me from our

interview.

One, he's making the case why he, Miami's mayor, is a better option than the other two Florida men in the race, Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, of course.

So look, I don't define myself as like a Florida Republican or as an anti-anyone or different, but I think who I am, I'm a mayor. I've taken

care of my residence, which is a microcosm of what you have to do as president, which is take

care of your country. You know, I've seen the urban issues that plague our country, right? We have 85% of the population of

America's in American cities, 91% of the GDP produced by our countries, produced by people

who live in American cities. Two, he's generally considered a moderate, but he explained

how he's trying to channel MAGA's populist passions, even as he puts together a more centrist

policy agenda. Because look, I think, you know, our campaign is about being different.

Our campaign is about being refreshing. Yeah, you sound different than a lot of Republicans,

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