Top Trump ally predicts midterms 'bloodbath' after huge Democrat win

Following a runoff election on Tuesday night, a Democrat has been elected mayor of Miami for the first time in nearly 30 years. The loss was a blow to Republicans so significant that a top ally to President Donald Trump is now warning of a "bloodbath" for the party in the upcoming midterms.

Democrat Eileen Higgins won Miami's mayoral race on Tuesday, besting Trump-endorsed Republican Emilio Gonzalez. Higgins previously received the most votes in the initial round of voting on Nov. 4, but the results nevertheless triggered a runoff.

This win marks the first time in 28 years that a Democrat will lead Miami, notable as one of the most consistently conservative major cities in the country, located in Florida, an increasingly Republican-dominated state. Higgins also secured her win by a substantial margin of victory, taking nearly 60 percent of the vote.

In response to Higgins' win, Laura Loomer, an outspoken far-right activist and close ally to Trump, took to X to warn that the 2026 midterm elections were now looking even grimmer for the Republican Party, and to falsely label Higgins as a "socialist."

"A bright red city in a bright red state just went blue tonight," Loomer wrote. "Eileen Higgins is a socialist. President Trump’s Presidential library will now be constructed under the control of a rabidly anti-Trump Democrat who supports soft on crime policies. Midterms will be a bloodbath."

Like many other Democratic candidates who have found substantial success over Republicans in 2025, Higgins made affordability and economic issues one of the core pillars of her campaign, pledging to build thousands of affordable housing units in the city and to push policies that help small businesses. She also campaigned heavily on immigration issues and spoke out against Trump's mass deportation agenda, a hot-button issue in a city where a majority of residents identify as Latin American.

“[Trump] and I have very different points of view on how we should treat our residents, many of whom are immigrants,” Higgins said in a recent interview with El Pais, a prominent Spanish-language newspaper. “That is the strength of this community. We are an immigrant-based place. That’s our uniqueness. That’s what makes us special.”