{"id":1958422,"date":"2023-06-27T16:32:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T20:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miami-mayor-francis-suarez-asks-whats-a-uyghur\/"},"modified":"2023-06-27T16:33:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T20:33:36","slug":"miami-mayor-francis-suarez-asks-whats-a-uyghur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miami-mayor-francis-suarez-asks-whats-a-uyghur\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Mayor Francis Suarez inquires about the meaning of &#8220;Uyghur.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmiami-mayor-francis-suarez-asks-whats-a-uyghur%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1958422&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Longshot GOP presidential candidate conflates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-the-taliban-sentence-229-christian-missionaries-to-death\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Did The Taliban Sentence 229 Christian Missionaries To Death?\">persecuted religious minority<\/a> with children&#8217;s roly-poly toy<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n      Uyghur men gather to pray in the far western Xinjiang province \/ Getty Images<br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Miami mayor and longshot Republican presidential candidate Francis Suarez suffered an embarrassing foreign policy blunder Tuesday morning when he asked a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wayne-root-i-stand-with-president-trump-we-will-always-stand-with-trump\/\" title=\"WAYNE ROOT: I Stand with President Trump, We Will Always Stand With Trump\">conservative radio host<\/a>, &#8220;What&#8217;s a Uyghur?&#8221; before conflating the persecuted religious minority with a 1971 line of children&#8217;s toys.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span>Suarez&#8217;s comments came during a <\/span><i><span>Hugh Hewitt Show<\/span><\/i><span> appearance, during which Hewitt asked Suarez if he would &#8220;be talking about the Uyghurs&#8221; during his campaign, a reference to the more than one million Muslims held in Chinese concentration camps. &#8220;The what? What&#8217;s a Uyghur?&#8221; Suarez responded. When Hewitt told the Miami mayor he should &#8220;get smart&#8221; on the issue, Suarez promised he&#8217;d &#8220;look at\u2014what was it? What&#8217;d you call it? A Weeble?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hewitt, of course, was not referring to the line of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miami-mayor-francis-suarez-asks-whats-a-uyghur\/\" title=\"Miami Mayor Francis Suarez inquires about the meaning of \"Uyghur.\"\">roly-poly children&#8217;<\/a>s toys known as Weebles, which Hasbro subsidiary Playskool <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weeble\"><span>produced<\/span><\/a><span> in various egg-shaped sizes from 1971-2011. &#8220;The Uyghurs, you really need to know about the Uyghurs,&#8221; Hewitt clarified. &#8220;You gotta talk about it every day.&#8221; Suarez insisted he would do so, touting his status as a &#8220;fast learner.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8216;I&#8217;ll look at \u2014 what\u2019d you call it, a \u2018Weeble?\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 2024 GOP presidential candidate Francis Suarez on Uyghurs <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wAW8lGg0IK\">pic.twitter.com\/wAW8lGg0IK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1673687808282697728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Suarez\u2019s Tuesday faux-pas harks back to Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson\u2019s so-called Aleppo moment. During a 2016 MSNBC interview, Johnson was questioned about what he would do if elected regarding the embattled Syrian city that was at the center of a civil war between the government and several rebel factions. &#8220;What is Aleppo?&#8221; Johnson asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Suarez blamed the gaffe on a listening comprehension issue, telling the <\/span><i><span>Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/i><span> he is &#8220;well aware of the suffering of the Uyghurs in China&#8221; but &#8220;didn&#8217;t recognize the pronunciation my friend Hugh Hewitt used.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;That&#8217;s on me,&#8221; the Republican said in a statement. Hewitt, however, criticized Suarez over the exchange following the interview, calling it a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-kennedy-fauci-flip-flopped-like-a-banked-catfish-biden-sold-out-u-s-like-a-sack-of-potatoes\/\" title=\"Sen. Kennedy: Fauci \u2018Flip Flopped Like A Banked Catfish\u2019; Biden Sold Out U.S. \u2018Like A Sack Of Potatoes\u2019\">huge blind spot<\/a>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;\u2018What&#8217;s a Uyghur?\u2019 is not where I expect people running for president to say when asked about the ongoing genocide in China,&#8221; the radio host <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hughhewitt\/status\/1673655390083448833?s=20\"><span>tweeted<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span>Suarez, who is considered to be a centrist, has long sparred with his state&#8217;s governor, fellow GOP presidential hopeful Gov. Ron DeSantis (Fla.). Suarez in 2021 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/miami-mayor-who-sparred-with-desantis-over-covid-mandates-immigration-enforcement-enters-gop-presidential-primary\/\"><span>lamented<\/span><\/a><span> that DeSantis would not let him enact a &#8220;commonsense&#8221; mask mandate in Miami and months later said he would not direct his police department to enforce a state law that made it a felony to willingly transport an illegal immigrant. &#8220;We don&#8217;t usually get involved in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-buddy-carter-to-newsmax-states-play-shell-game-with-immigrant-payments\/\" title=\"Rep. Buddy Carter to Newsmax: States Play 'Shell Game' With Immigrant Payments\">federal immigration system<\/a>,&#8221; Suarez noted. <\/span><span>Suarez has also attacked DeSantis on education, calling th<\/span><span>e governor&#8217;s bill to limit sex education in kindergarten through third grade &#8220;excessive.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2018, meanwhile, Suarez publicly touted his vote for DeSantis&#8217;s gubernatorial opponent, Democrat Andrew Gillum. After losing to DeSantis, Gillum was found <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/politics-government\/article241165641.html\"><span>vomiting in a Florida hotel room<\/span><\/a><span>, alongside a gay escort and self-described <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/florida\/story\/2020\/04\/22\/police-release-photos-911-audio-of-gillum-hotel-room-call-1279130\"><span>&#8220;pornstar performer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><span> who overdosed on methamphetamines. Gillum, who has been married to his wife since 2009, denied ever using drugs that night and came out as bisexual months after the ordeal.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami mayor and GOP presidential candidate Francis Suarez made a foreign policy blunder by confusing the Uyghur religious minority with a children&#8217;s toy. 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