A Democrat won the Miami mayor's race for the first time in decades over a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump, and CNN's Harry Enten said that's the latest example of an unmistakeable trend.

Eileen Higgins campaigned as a proud Democrat against the Trump-backed candidate Emilio Gonzalez, breaking the Republican Party's three-decade grip on the mayor's office, and Enten told "CNN News Central" that races across the country have been breaking strongly against the GOP compared to last year's election.

"This was just such a big shift to the Democrats," Enten said. "I mean, Kamala Harris won Miami, but just by a point, there was a huge shift towards Donald Trump. This was in Miami – Joe Biden had carried Miami by nearly 20 points, and Harris only won it by one, and all of a sudden, look at this: It's a 19-point win for Higgins. That is an 18-point shift in over in just a year's time, and, of course, it is just the latest shift that we're seeing. That is what I think is so important going on here."

Similar trends played out in last month's gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia, where Democratic candidates won by outperforming Harris just one year before.

"We have seen it across the political map, whereby over and over and over again, the baseline from 2024, Democrats are consistently outperforming it 10-15, nearly 20 points in this case," Enten said.

The Miami race was particularly interesting because it showed how much support the president has lost from Latino voters in his first year in office, Enten said.

"If you know anything about Miami, you know it's heavily Hispanic, heavily Latino," Enten said, "and what we have seen is that Democrats, excuse me, Latinos have absolutely gone up and said, you know what? I don't like what Donald Trump is doing. I mean, just look at Donald Trump's net approval among Latinos in February, it was minus two points, not too hot to trot, but not that bad either. Look at where it is now: minus-38 points. That is a shift of 36 points in the wrong direction, the completely wrong direction for Donald Trump, and what the race in Miami illustrates. I was looking at the localities – locality by locality by locality, what you see is these huge shift in these heavily Hispanic neighborhoods of Miami against against the Republican nominee from the Donald Trump baseline, and so to me, this is an encapsulation of what we see."

Latino voters also turned against Trump in a special election earlier this year in Arizona, which confirms what polls have been finding about their approval for the president's second term, and Enten said he's been especially damaging to big-city mayoral candidates.

"This to me is part of a longer, larger arc, and, you know, you just look at this," Enten said. "GOP mayors in the 50 largest cities in 2017, it was about 14. Now with Higgins coming in, it's seven, it's seven. Donald Trump has been absolute kryptonite to Republicans who want to run major cities in the United States. There are very few. They are an endangered, endangered species."

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