迈阿密市长弗朗西斯·苏亚雷斯周四上午宣布竞选总统，挑战唐纳德·特朗普获得共和党提名。
苏亚雷斯在美国广播公司(ABC)的“早安美国”(Good Morning America)的独家采访中告诉联合主播乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯(George Stephanopoulos)，他代表着“世代变革”，但他一再回避回答特朗普的指控或这位前总统是否做错了什么。
“这与我无关。这与我这一代无关。这是关于我们的孩子，”苏亚雷斯说。
这位45岁的市长周三提交了文件，宣布参加总统竞选，这使他成为佛罗里达州第三位参加竞选的候选人，也是唯一一位拉丁裔共和党候选人。
几个月来，苏亚雷斯公开表示，他正在考虑竞选总统，并采取了一切表明他将加入竞选的重大行动，包括访问爱荷华州和新罕布什尔州等提前提名的州，周四晚上，他将在罗纳德·里根总统图书馆和博物馆发表讲话，这对任何正在竞选或考虑竞选总统的人来说都是至关重要的一站。
在过去的几个月里，这位市长的国家形象有所上升，最近一次是在本周二的迈阿密，在前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)被传讯期间，苏亚雷斯领导了这座城市。
他甚至在法庭上，特朗普对与他处理机密材料有关的37项刑事指控拒不认罪，此前检察官表示，他一再拒绝归还数百份包含从美国核机密到国家国防能力等机密信息的文件。
当被反复问及他对特朗普起诉书的立场时，苏亚雷斯回应道，“我认为，如果我们继续就前总统进行对话，那么前总统将成为被提名人。”
当再次被问及他对该指控的看法时，苏亚雷斯说，这让共和党人感到“司法不平等”
苏亚雷斯说:“我认为，我们正在进行总统竞选，我们看到一位前总统被多次起诉，这一事实在共和党人看来是党派之争，在像我们这样的民主国家是有问题的。”
当斯特凡诺普洛斯问苏亚雷斯是否读过特朗普的起诉文件时，苏亚雷斯转向了前副总统迈克·彭斯和总统乔·拜登对机密文件的处理。
“但如果我是前副总统，然后是现任总统，我也不会在我的车库里储存机密文件，”苏亚雷斯说。"前总统手下的前副总统也有与机密相关的问题."
斯特凡诺普洛斯反驳了苏亚雷斯的声明，称彭斯和拜登交出了他们手中的机密文件，而特朗普没有。
当被问及特朗普处理机密文件的行为是否鲁莽时，苏亚雷斯回应说，围绕起诉前总统的谈话对国家来说不是“健康的”。
“我们应该谈论美国人关心的问题;我们不应该谈论候选人被起诉，”苏亚雷斯说。
“如果我的候选资格将是对前总统特朗普所做的事情做出回应，那么我或任何其他共和党(候选人)都不会有多少候选资格。”
随着8月份的第一场共和党初选辩论，参与的要求之一包括同意支持最终的提名人。当被斯特凡诺普洛斯问及是否会支持特朗普成为提名人时，苏亚雷斯说会。
“我认为每一个想要参加辩论的共和党候选人都必须承诺支持被提名人，我也会这样做，”苏亚雷斯说。
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez announces he's running for president against Trump in 2024
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez announced on Thursday morning he is running for president, challenging Donald Trump for the Republican nomination.
Suarez told co-anchor George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview on ABC's "Good Morning America" that he represents "generational change," but he repeatedly avoided answering about Trump's indictment or whether the former president had done anything wrong.
"This isn't about me. This isn't about my generation. This is about our children," Suarez said.
The 45-year-old mayor filed paperwork on Wednesday declaring his candidacy for president, making him the third candidate from Florida to jump into the race and the only Latino GOP candidate in the field.
For months, Suarez has publicly said he's thinking about running for president and has taken every significant action indicating that he would jump into the race, including visiting early nominating states such as Iowa and New Hampshire and on Thursday night, he will give remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, a vital stop for anyone either running or considering a presidential run.
The mayor's national profile has increased over the past few months, most recently this week in Miami on Tuesday where Suarez led the city during former President Donald Trump's arraignment.
He was even in the courtroom, where Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 criminal counts related to his handling of classified materials, after prosecutors said he repeatedly refused to return hundreds of documents containing classified information ranging from U.S. nuclear secrets to the nation's defense capabilities.
When asked repeatedly where he stood on the Trump's indictment, Suarez responded, "I think if we continue to have a conversation about the former president, then the former president will be the nominee."
When asked again what he thought of the indictment, Suarez said that it makes Republicans feel that "there isn't an equal administration of justice."
"I think the fact that we're in a presidential campaign, and we're seeing a former president be indicted multiple times, is something that Republicans view as partisan and problematic in a country like ours in a democracy," Suarez said.
When pressed by Stephanopoulos if he had read Trump's indictment documents, Suarez pivoted, focusing on former Vice President Mike Pence and President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents.
"But if I were the former vice president and then the current president, I wouldn't have stored classified documents in my in my garage either," Suarez said. "The former vice president under the former president also had issues related to classified."
Stephanopoulos pushed back against Suarez's statement, saying that Pence and Biden turned over the classified documents that were in their possession, whereas Trump did not.
When asked if Trump's behavior in handling classified documents were reckless, Suarez responded by saying conversations surrounding the indictment of the former president aren't "healthy" for the country.
"We should be talking about the issues that Americans care about; we shouldn't be talking about, you know, candidates being indicted," Suarez said.
"If my candidacy is going to be about responding to the things that former President Trump did, then there's not going to be much of a candidacy for me or any other Republican [candidate]."
With the first Republican primary debate in August, one of the requirements to participate includes agreeing to support the eventual nominee. When asked by Stephanopoulos if he would support Trump as the nominee, Suarez said yes.
"I think every single Republican candidate who wants to be on debates has to pledge to support the nominee and I will do that as well," Suarez said.
