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The red wave that hit Miami-Dade County politics on Tuesday washed through the suburbs and nearly every city too, with President-elect Donald Trump improving his margins from deep-blue Miami Gardens to the conservative stronghold of Hialeah.
At the top of the ticket, Trump won Miami-Dade by 11 points over Vice President Kamala Harris, who became the first Democratic presidential candidate to lose the county since Michael Dukakis in 1988.
Trump's victory played out across hundreds of precincts in Miami-Dade, where he narrowed his losing margins in some Democratic holdouts , flipped 10 municipalities from red to blue since the last presidential election and ran up the score in places he won in 2020.
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"I think this community has become just more conservative leaning. Even the Democrats are more conservative leaning," said Christi Fraga, the Republican mayor of Doral, which is home to a Trump golf resort. "Family values are really big in the Latino community. Same with safety and security."
Four years ago, Trump won Doral by four points while losing Miami-Dade as a whole by six points to President Joe Biden. On Tuesday, Doral went with Trump by 23 points, with the president-elect taking 61% of the vote to Harris' 38%, according to a Miami Herald analysis of precinct data.
That kind of surge in Doral helped Trump flip Miami-Dade, once such a reliable Democratic stronghold that he lost it by 30 points to Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Trump didn't just pull Miami-Dade into the Republican column. Multiple cities went from siding with Biden in 2020 to Trump in 2024.
In Coral Gables, Biden got 53% of the vote in 2020 to Trump's 47%. On Tuesday, Trump emerged the narrow Gables winner, taking 50% of the ballots, compared to 49% for Harris.
Also moving from the Biden column in 2020 to Trump in 2024: Aventura, Bay Harbor Islands, Cutler Bay, Homestead, Key Biscayne, Palmetto Bay, Pinecrest and Surfside.
Trump flipped the suburbs, too. In 2020, Biden finished two points ahead of Trump in Miami-Dade's vast unincorporated areas outside of municipal limits.
On Tuesday, Trump swamped Harris in the unincorporated areas – home to nearly half of the county's voters in the 2024 election – with 59% of the vote to the vice president's 41%.
Democratic cities saw a spike in Trump support, too. In South Miami, Trump got just a third of the vote in 2020 but won 43% of the bedroom community's votes on Tuesday.
Mayor Javier Fernández, a former Democratic member of the Florida House , blamed some of the Trump gains on the city's shifting demographic as gentrification takes its toll on traditionally Black neighborhoods. "A lot of those older folks have sold and moved on," Fernandez said. "They're probably not being replaced with people registered Democrat."
The municipality most in Trump's corner is also the most exclusive in Miami-Dade: Indian Creek Village, where Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, have a mansion , as does Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos .
There were only 41 votes cast from the island community known as the "Billionaire Bunker." Of those Indian Creek votes, 32 went to Trump and nine to Harris. That gave Trump a 78% win on the island.
Hialeah wasn't far behind Indian Creek, with a 76% win for the president-elect this year. That's up from 67% in 2020.
On the opposite side of the political scale, Miami Gardens went big for Harris in 2024. But it still was a drop off from four years ago in Democratic support. While the vice president got 75% of the Miami Gardens vote, Biden won 85% in 2020.
"I didn't see it coming," said Linda Julien, a Democratic member of the Miami Gardens City Council who won reelection on Tuesday. "I have people I'm friends with who just didn't come out to vote. They said they didn't have time. It's a matter of priorities, and I think this election just wasn't a priority for a lot of people."
