The dust has barely settled from Miami’s General Election, where Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins and former City Manager Emilio González clinched their spots in a runoff for city Mayor.

But according to newly released internal polling numbers, the winner of that Dec. 9 clash will almost assuredly be Higgins.

Pollsters found that voters prefer Higgins over González by a more than 2-to-1 ratio.

Asked whom they support in a head-to-head matchup, 49.84% respondents to the survey side with Higgins, while 23.78% pick González. The remaining 26.38% say they are undecided.

Higgins, a Democrat, took 36% of the vote in the first round of voting compared to 19.5% for González, a Republican.

Plantation-based MDW Communications surveyed 307 likely Miami voters Oct. 14-18 using a

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