Carlos A. Giménez is a Cuban-born American politician and retired firefighter serving as the U.S. Representative for Florida’s 26th congressional district. He served as mayor of Miami-Dade County, Florida, from 2011 to 2020. He is the son of Cuban ranchers from the Oriente province.
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Carlos A. Giménez is a Cuban-born American politician and retired firefighter serving as the U.S. Representative for Florida’s 26th congressional district. He served as mayor of Miami-Dade County, Florida, from 2011 to 2020. He supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. In 2020, Gimenez ran as a pro-Trump Republican and was endorsed by President Donald Trump. He ran on a platform of repealing the Affordable Care Act and opposing a carbon tax. In January 2020, he announced he was running for the Republican nomination in the 2020 election for Florida’s 26th House district.
In August 2018, he won the Republican primary election, defeating Omar Blanco with 59% of the vote. He is the son of Cuban ranchers from the Oriente province. His family immigrated to the United States in the wake of the Cuban Revolution, settling in what became Miami’s Little Havana. He joined the City of Miami Fire Department as a firefighter in 1975. He was appointed fire chief in 1991, serving until 2000. In 2004, he was elected as a Miami-dade County Commissioner for the county’s 7th district.
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