Carlos Curbelo
The Public Record
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May 10, 2025
Democrats were wrong to believe that Hispanic voters would never prioritize border security and the deportation of the undocumented.
— Carlos Curbelo
This is why Republicans didn't have a red wave in 2022, because 2022 was about 2020, and Donald Trump is making 2024 about 2020.
There is a difference between Kristi Noem and other Republicans and Donald Trump on this issue in particular. She supports a federal abortion ban. She supports no exceptions in cases of rape and incest.
This is the Trump trap, right? Republicans need to check the box, 'appease Donald Trump,' and then put some of their more vulnerable members in peril.
If you want to beat Donald Trump in a Republican primary, you're not going to do it by being a cheap imitation of Donald Trump.
The moderates have an opportunity this week with this rules package. They can make a statement. They can amend it somehow. They can bring it down. They have to do that, otherwise they're going to be sitting in this position of, you know…
One of the big problems especially on the right is that social media has sown a lot of distrust because the right feels under attack by big institutions. It has hurt our democracy. Why? Because it has diminished trust in society.
What the federal government needs to do is provide the infrastructure, provide the security so that people can go back and access their home.
Clearly, Matt Gaetz is not following those instructions. He`s in another world.
The difference between Mitch McConnell and many other Republicans is that Mitch McConnell, aside from not liking Donald Trump, is also not afraid of Donald Trump.
These candidates have chosen to pray at the altar of Donald Trump to worship there.
by inviting Donald Trump to invest in the campaigns of these horrible Senate Republican candidates, he is going to expose him as one of the most selfish people, no, no, no, the most selfish person ever to participate in American politics.
By inviting Donald Trump to invest in the campaigns of these horrible Senate Republican candidates, he is going to expose him as one of the most selfish people, no, no, no, the most selfish person ever to participate in American politics.
This is just another example of the train wreck that Senate Republicans are facing ahead of the November election.
That kind of rhetoric, I know why the governor is doing it. He wants to signal to the Trump face that he`s with them and that he`s one of them.
So, Republicans really need to level with the people and say, hey, either we`re for law enforcement or not, either we`re for law and order or we`re not.
Republicans have to decide if they are actually the party of law and order. And if they`re the party of law and order, they need to explain what that means.
I think a lot of people are staying quiet. They don`t want to continue following Donald Trump, but a lot of the Republican leaders continue following him.
CPAC has become just unrecognizable from what it used to be. He used to be a place where conservatives we don’t talk about ideas, proposals, the role of government in our country, legitimate conversations. Now it is a place where lies get…
This country only has two parties. We really need both to be viable options, to be decent alternatives, because one party is always going to get swept out of power. So, we want the alternative to be tolerable.
This was a big mistake. And, you know, it just feeds this narrative that Democrats are mounting a bit of a comeback.





