A South Florida Republican congressman ripped Miami Mayor Francis Suarez’s nascent 2024 presidential bid Thursday, saying he is “not qualified to be anything.”

Rep. Carlos Giménez (R-Fla.), who spent nine years as mayor of Miami-Dade County and whose House district includes the city’s outer southwestern suburbs, told “Fox & Friends First” he considered Suarez a “fraud” who lacks leadership skills.

“I don’t think that he’s qualified to be president of the United States in any way, shape, or form,” Giménez said. “He’s not qualified to be VP, he’s not qualified to be anything.”

Suarez, 45, filed paperwork to run for president Wednesday and publicly announced his candidacy Thursday. Giménez has endorsed former President Donald Trump in the Republican primary

“He hasn’t demonstrated the ability to lead any large organization,” Giménez said of Suarez. “He’s a ceremonial mayor of the City of Miami. He has very little power, he got elected by a total of 20,000 people.”

“He does have the gift of gab, trying to fool people into thinking that he’s the big city mayor,” the congressman added. “But the big city mayor is actually the mayor of Miami-Dade County.”

The city of Miami has a population of about 449,000 people, while Miami-Dade County has a population of 2.7 million, according to the census.

Suarez, the son of Miami’s first Cuban-born mayor, has been in office since 2017.

He is reportedly entangled in a federal investigation pertaining to payments directed at him from Miami real estate developer Rishi Kapoor’s subsidiary company Location Ventures.

The inquiry revolves around whether those payments, roughly $10,000 a month and up to $170,000 total, were made in exchange for favors and approvals related to a $70 million Coconut Grove development project, the Miami Herald reported.

Suarez, who also works as a private real estate attorney, and Kapoor have both denied wrongdoing.

Suarez is now the third Florida Republican to enter the 2024 primary contest alongside Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis.

“What people want is someone to bring them together,” Suarez told ABC News. “This isn’t about me. This isn’t about my generation. This is about our children.”

Despite his Republican affiliation, Suarez voted for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Democrat Andrew Gillum in the 2018 Florida gubernatorial election.

Suarez has earned high praise from Trumpworld luminary Kellyanne Conway, the former president’s 2016 campaign manager.

“I’ve not been shy about telling President Trump that Suarez should be on the short list for VP should Trump be the nominee,” Conway told Politico last month.

Suarez is slated to deliver a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation Thursday evening laying out his campaign platform.

A Suarez rep did not immediately respond to a request for comment.