Miami Mayor Francis Suarez spent months struggling to get the campaign donations, attention and support he needed to keep his long-shot quest for the Republican presidential nomination alive.

That ended Tuesday, when Suarez announced he would be suspending his campaign, making him the first Republican to drop out of a nomination contest that is both crowded and heavily favoring former President Donald Trump.

“While I have decided to suspend my campaign for President, my commitment to making this a better nation for every American remains," Suarez said in a statement.

“I look forward to keeping in touch with the other Republican presidential candidates and doing what I can to make sure our party puts forward a strong nominee who can inspire and unify the country, renew Americans’ trust in our institutions and in each other, and win.”

Suarez did not offer his endorsement to any of the remaining candidates.

Suarez failed to make the debate stage in Milwaukee, despite having reached, he claimed, the threshold for 40,000 individual donors. In his quest to get more donations, Suarez offered people a chance to get front-row seats to see legendary Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi in his first game playing for Inter Miami.

But with dismal polling numbers – the last three major surveys had Suarez with zero support of GOP primary voters – Suarez did not qualify for the debate stage. While campaigning in New Hampshire weeks ago, Suarez said that candidates who did not meet the thresholds for the Milwaukee debate should drop out.

As the only Hispanic in the GOP presidential race, Suarez – the 45-year-old son of Miami's first Cuban-born mayor – at first appeared to be someone who could build on the party's inroads among Latino voters. Exit polls show that Hispanics – especially in Republican Florida – are moving more toward the GOP, although Democrats still hold a commanding lead among the voter group nationally and in battleground states like Arizona and Colorado.

Suarez was also an early proponent of vaccinations for COVID-19. He has clashed with his state's GOP governor, Ron DeSantis, criticizing his foe for the GOP presidential nomination for the expansion of the "don’t say gay" law in schools and the handling of the slavery curriculum in classrooms.

Nor has Suarez been a reliable enemy of President Joe Biden. At an event at the White House in early 2021, Suarez said he spoke with the president about the pandemic and climate change, adding that he had more communication with the Democratic president than with Trump, when he was president.

"I've spoken to the president and vice president more times in the short period that they have been in office than I had spoken to the prior administration entirely," Suarez said at the time. "To me, that's an intentional desire on their part to really plug in with the mayors."

In the months he has been campaigning, however, Suarez – who did not support Trump in 2016 or 2020 – has shied away from criticizing the GOP's front-runner. In June, Suarez hinted he would pardon Trump, saying the tool is useful for presidents to “heal the country.”

板球要入奥？英国《每日邮报》3日称，目前2028年洛杉矶奥运会已经确定了28个比赛大项，此外主办方还可以向国际奥委会争取“特有正式比赛项目”，其中就包括在南亚盛行的板球运动。洛杉矶奥组委日前派出代表团，参观正在英国伯明翰举行的英联邦运动会女子板球比赛，这被外界视为推动板球运动入奥的某种迹象，本月下旬，国际板球联合会也将表达希望加入2028年洛杉矶奥运会的意愿。目前共有9项运动成为2028年奥运会的候选项目，除了板球还包括：霹雳舞、棒垒球、腰旗橄榄球、棍网球、空手道、跆拳道和壁球，赛车运动的国际管理组织也在积极争取，国际奥委会将于明年决定最终入选者。奥运历史上，板球运动只出现过一次，而且是1900年英国和法国之间举行的一场比赛。不过当它被纳入英联邦运动会后，奥运会也有望对其敞开大门。“我们正在协助2028年洛杉矶奥运会的主办方，提供有助于评估体育项目入奥的信息”，国际板球协会首席执行官杰奥夫·阿拉迪斯上周在伯明翰表示。

三 | 此外，一项全新板球赛事——美国板球大联盟也将于明年正式启动，并计划在洛杉矶附近的尔湾市建造一座可容纳1万人的体育场，未来也可以作为奥运场馆使用。

四 | 另据西班牙《马卡报》分析，除了板球等9个候选项目，国际奥委会在2023年还要决定是否在2028年洛杉矶奥运会上恢复举重、现代五项和拳击项目。

五 | 而最新列入候选的赛车项目还存在一个具体问题：国际汽车联合会要把哪种赛车开进奥运会？鉴于2018年在阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯举行的青年奥运会上，已经出现了电动卡丁车比赛，按照惯例，卡丁车也有望成为第一个登上奥运赛场的赛车项目。

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