Christian Ilvert

So talk to NPAs and Democrats who may have felt like you were their guy over the summer.

But now you have this MAGA mayor thing that may be a turnoff.

I want to get into that heavy lifting in just a moment.

I do want to say, nor do I believe that you have to answer for all of the policies and comments for this president having accepted his endorsement.

But there are issues that overlap these municipal local issues.

You specifically mentioned flooding, which for those of us who have lived in this community, as long as you have, as long as I have, it doesn't require a culture war or an argument about science.

We can just trust our eyes and see what's

How things have gotten worse over time, which neighborhoods are being disproportionately impacted by.

You want to call it climate change, sea level rise.

It's flooding is what's happening on sunny days.

So but do you see when when you have endorsements from a governor or from a president who says that we're going to ban the word climate change?

There's no such thing as global.

There's not that people get concerned because they live in Miami and they're building arcs because it feels like it's time.

I don't want to belabor the point, but you brought something up, the weaponization of government, which has been a key topic in the city of Miami.

We watched it happen transparently in broad daylight, right from the dais.

We've heard testimony from countless people who have witnessed it, experienced it, been victims of it, memorialized it.

We have a $63.5 million civil federal judgment against Joe Carillo for doing just that.

Is there not some incongruity, though?

We're sitting here talking about the weaponization of government.

And we have a president who is now famously and openly and transparently weaponizing government against his enemies and weaponizing the DOJ and even the Department of War, whatever it's called now.