Hello and welcome to the Byron War Show, you're no chitchat podcast, and we like to get

right into it.

And what we're going to get into today is the growing crowd in the Republican presidential

primary race.

You may not have noticed it, I don't know, but Francis Suarez, the mayor of Miami, announced

on Thursday that he is running for the Republican nomination for president.

As people do these days, Suarez released a video to announce this.

He's in athletic clothes, he's tying his running shoes on, and he starts running because

as you know, he's now running.

So he runs around Miami talking about his life there, and there's this dramatic music swelling

behind him, and he says that he can lead the United States like he led Miami.

He says, when I was elected, the city was broken and broken, but we came together and I won

my mayoral election with over 80% of the vote.

Now, the critics quickly pointed out that Miami actually does not have a strong mayor

or form of government.

It has a city manager, form of government.

The mayor has relatively little power, but Suarez, of course, didn't talk about that.

He touted his accomplishments in education, in the economy, bringing innovation to Miami.

And by the way, Miami has a city, the city of Miami has a population of 449,514 people.

Now he says he can do the same thing for the United States of America that has a population

of 333,287,557 people.

By the way, those numbers come from the census, U.S. Census Quick Facts website, which is

...