Miami Mayor Suarez is in GOP presidential race: ‘Unity is more powerful than division’

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — Miami Mayor Francis Suarez publicly kicked off his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination with a speech Thursday evening at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. Suarez, a 45-year-old attorney and private-equity executive, gave his first public address since he filed paperwork to run for president Wednesday afternoon, a soft launch of a White House bid he’s teased for more than a year amid publicity over his promotion of Miami as a tech hub and, more recently, controversy over an FBI investigation into his private consulting work for a develop...