Mayor Francis X. Suarez of Miami dropped out of the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, after failing to achieve traction in a crowded discipline and falling wanting the necessities to take part within the first Republican debate.

“Throughout this process, I have met so many freedom-loving Americans who care deeply about our nation, her people and its future,” Mr. Suarez posted on X, the platform previously generally known as Twitter. “It was a privilege to come so close to appearing onstage with the other candidates at last week’s first debate.”

Mr. Suarez, 45, wrote within the posting on Tuesday that he was suspending his marketing campaign for president. He had announced his run in June, becoming a member of an already-crowded solid of Republicans vying for the nomination, together with a former vp, a U.S. senator, a number of governors — and a former president whose dominance in polls has been regular all through the race.

No one has ever ascended to the presidency straight from a mayoral workplace. As the only real Latino candidate — he’s Cuban American — Mr. Suarez performed up his potential to attraction to a various group of voters. He promoted a boilerplate G.O.P. platform through which he known as to curb violent crime, instructed giving U.S. firms incentives to go away China and expressed help for a 15-week nationwide abortion ban with exceptions.

The first within the 2024 race to drop out, Mr. Suarez advised reporters on the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 11 that any candidate who did not make the controversy stage ought to bow out.

To take part within the debate, candidates wanted a minimal of 40,000 distinctive donors, which Mr. Suarez mentioned he had attained, and at the least 1 % in three qualifying polls. Mr. Suarez posted a video on-line celebrating his supposed qualification on Aug. 18. But three days later, the Republican National Committee introduced a debate stage lineup that left him out.

After acknowledging his failure to make the controversy stage on X, Mr. Suarez went dormant on social media and didn’t maintain marketing campaign occasions within the days following the controversy.

During his marketing campaign, Mr. Suarez usually took photographs on the governor of his dwelling state, Ron DeSantis, together with criticizing laws that banned discussions of gender identification and sexual orientation in faculties and poking enjoyable at Mr. DeSantis’s dispute with Disney. But he hardly ever attacked the occasion’s front-runner, former President Donald J. Trump, and instructed that he can be open to pardoning him if convicted in any of his 4 indictments.

A technology enthusiast, Mr. Suarez additionally experimented with novel technique of attracting voters and created an “A.I. Suarez” in his likeness that, when prompted, defined his coverage stances on a bunch of points as its mouth moved in a somewhat-humanlike style. But his marketing campaign by no means actually took off, and his most favorable polls confirmed him hovering round 1 % help, at finest.

The mayor faces allegations of peddling affect on behalf of an actual property improvement firm. The Miami Herald reported that Mr. Suarez was paid at the least $170,000 by Location Ventures “to help cut through red tape and secure critical permits.” The Herald later reported that the F.B.I. was investigating if these funds constituted bribes.

In his assertion on X on Tuesday, he careworn a necessity for Republicans to do “more to include and attract” Hispanic voters, amongst different demographics, whom he mentioned “the left has taken for granted for far too long.”

“Younger voters, independents, urban voters and suburban women — all of whom I’ve carried in previous elections — among others, should find a comfortable home in the G.O.P. and its policies,” he mentioned.