Far-left Democrat Deb Haaland is being promoted by national Democrats as the candidate who will help New Mexico children “read sooner” — even as the state remains buried at the bottom of the nation in education after years of Democrat control in Santa Fe.
The Democratic Governors Association posted a clip from Haaland’s MS NOW interview, writing, “Deb Haaland is running for governor of New Mexico so kids can read sooner, families can get the healthcare they need, and life can be more affordable for every New Mexican.”
But the short clip, which appears tightly edited, offered another reminder of Haaland’s halting and awkward public speaking style. Critics have long noted that Haaland often leans heavily on scripted lines, biography, and broad talking points rather than clear, detailed answers — a problem that followed her during her time in Washington and during congressional hearings while she served as Joe Biden’s secretary of the interior.
In the clip, Haaland attempted to frame herself as the most experienced candidate in the race.
“When I was secretary, of course, I have a record of accomplishment,” Haaland said. “I managed a department with 70,000 career staff, an $18 billion annual budget.”
She added, “I’m the only one with experience like that who is running for governor, and I want to use that experience and knowledge for the benefit of New Mexico.”
For Haaland’s allies, that is supposed to be the pitch: she ran a massive federal agency, so she is ready to run New Mexico.
But for conservatives, her tenure at Interior looked far more ceremonial than impressive. Haaland became a national symbol for the Biden administration’s identity politics and climate agenda, but when pressed in congressional hearings on basic policy questions involving energy, public lands, and federal land management, she often struggled to give direct, coherent answers.
That matters because Haaland is now asking voters to trust her with New Mexico’s education system, health care access, affordability crisis, and public safety problems.
In the MS NOW clip, Haaland continued, “I was also a congresswoman, so I know how the federal government works.”
She then said she is “ready to work for New Mexicans, so kids can read sooner, so people can get health care when they need it, so life can be more affordable for every New Mexican, regardless of where they live.”
The line about children reading sooner is especially rich.
New Mexico’s education system is already in crisis. After years of Democrat control of the governor’s office, Legislature, and education bureaucracy, the state remains at or near the bottom nationally. Recent national reading data show New Mexico fourth graders and eighth graders performing well below national averages, with only about one in five students at or above proficient in reading.
That is not a messaging problem. That is a generational failure.
Democrats have had every lever of power in Santa Fe. They have increased spending. They have expanded bureaucracy. They have pushed woke education priorities. And yet New Mexico children still cannot read at acceptable levels.
Now national Democrats are packaging Haaland as the answer.
But the DGA clip may have created the opposite impression. Instead of showing a dynamic leader with a specific plan to turn around New Mexico schools, it showed Haaland leaning on vague promises and federal credentials.
There were no specifics in the clip about how Haaland would improve reading scores. No explanation of what she would do differently from outgoing Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. No plan for fixing a broken education system controlled by Democrats for years.
Instead, voters heard the familiar Haaland formula: mention the Biden administration, cite the size of the federal department she nominally led, and promise broad outcomes without telling New Mexicans how she would actually deliver them.
For conservative New Mexicans, the irony is hard to miss.
A candidate whose public interviews often require careful packaging is being sold as the leader who will help children read sooner. A Democrat backed by the same political machine that presided over New Mexico’s education collapse is now promising to fix it. And a former Biden cabinet secretary with a record of vague, halting answers is asking voters to believe she can competently manage the state.
Haaland is not running away from the Biden-Haaland record. She is running on it.
The same goes for New Mexico Democrats’ education record. They own it. The low reading scores, the national embarrassment, the decades of excuses, and the failure to produce basic results all happened under their watch.
The DGA wants voters to see Haaland as a historic candidate with federal experience and a feel-good promise to help kids “read sooner.”
But New Mexicans may see something else: another far-left Democrat wrapped in national media polish, offering scripted slogans, Biden-era credentials, and no real evidence that anything would change. Haaland’s Republican competitor is former Rio Rancho Mayor Gregg Hull, who has years of executive experience.
Is the sesame street version of the communist manifesto a good read ?
You beat me to it.
Give her 1 year to turn things around and if she doesn’t get rid of her………………
She can do too much damage in a year.
There’s no provision to impeach a governor in NM. That’s why MLG is still here. Now we want someone dumber than MLG????
Why give her a year? She was bad as a Rep here in the north and even worse as a cabinet secretary. Listen to the way the senators asked her questions and how she didn’t know how to answer. It was always don’t know ask my staff, We don’t need her as our Governor
understand that NM dems will vote for deb without knowing ANYTHING about her other than her gender, skin color and ancestry. her voters cannot tell you any of her plans , ideas, programs. they dont care. the fact that she is a dem and not a white straight male is more than enough for them. and did i mention trump ? she is going to fight trump ! over what exactly ? its so stupid it makes you sick. the public is so stupid its painful.
well said. it’s a done deal. very unfortunate for the people living in NM.
get the healthcare we need says deb. Presbyterian just announced that in 2027 they are kicking 30 thousand senior citizens off their Medicare program. where are they going to go ? this is the level of medical care under years of a democrat run NM. if you are on medicare by law you pay premiums, but good luck finding a doctor or seeing one on a timely basis. this is a ponzi scheme bernie madoff would be proud of.
all above good comments, I can only suggest we talk to NMs and ask conservative questions that the majority of NM are for, then follow up with why are NMs that are conservative voting in democrats? At the last presidential election I talked to a democrat that voted for Trump and he was justly proud, I then asked if he voted for a Democrat for congress or the senate, they did, so I asked how is that helping Trump get his agenda through. If you could have seen the regret in his eyes, but it is one person at a time.
MLG said the same things as deb for 8 years. she failed at everything. now we have another 4 or 8 years of failure ahead of us with deb. NM is not going to survive thanks to its voters.
We will be trading a fool for an idiot if Dumb Deb gets elected!
But will Haaland hep stoodents/stewdints/pewpills read more better?
I’m guessing not. Slogans do not create outcomes; only drivel for the easily misled.
Heck, NM Dems, even when they actually present a plan of action they end up never following it nor achieving the promised results; outcomes ignored by autopilot Dem voters even though they never, ever receive the rewards (free stuff) they are promised.
NM already has won the race to the bottom but Dems keep increasing the pace and distance so no other contender even is remotely close to catching up.
Given the current demographic in NM there is no hope for any GOP candidate to be elected to statewide office. Adding to all the “traditional” democrat voters now add all the libtards that fled other blue states to come here with their crappy politics. We just don’t have enough republican voters in NM to defeat democrats. And, there are a lot of GOP voters that have given up and don’t even bother to vote. Just look at the last three or four election cycles. Republicans get 40 or so percent of the vote and the Dem gets 55+.
I wonder when the information comes out that the democrats stole the election, so Biden did not win. That means She was part of a Stolen election. Joe was never president as he had already been tribunaled. There were Hollywood masks and robots playing him. Hence whey they needed the the auto pen. She took no orders from Biden and had to be aware of it!
Biden was a child trafficker and pedo. The cabal was running things. Deb was part of this!
Deb didn’t do good in school herself; she can’t even spell her own name. “Holland” right.
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Oh my, such a leader. Senator Hawley interviewing her on her Leadership (?) on the interior. Ole Deb knew nothing about her “job”, & said everything was decided by her aids….
Yep, she gonna be real good at nothing but further destroying this State.
Just how successful was the Department of Interior under her administration? I believe it was stagnant or a failure. We as good common sense conservatives have to do our part to get her to lose the run for governor. We have to stop ballot harvesting in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. We also have to fight to get rid of the unmonitored drop boxes. We know that cheating is happening in NM and the places it is happening most is Albuquerque. Plus we have to get the voters in the southeast corner to get out and vote.
A lying piece of shit like all Democrats lie they hate America thy are all communist she dumber then a bag of hammers
I don’t think Haaland ever past the Bar exam..I know she failed it twice….as far as health care, the caregivers that are here are suffering burnout…who wants to stay when we were once again 49th in quality of life.
We have to educate the voters that common sense matters not emotions or empty promises given by the democrats…I’m telling you it’s gotta change or we will all be in a hell hole of a State…and that’s exactly what the democrats want…God please help us
Says the moron who couldn’t pass the bar exam. NM and it’s corrupt politicians are like a water waste treatment tank. Turds endlessly swirling around and around.
NM was circling the drain. When she gets elected, it’s sewer time
Haaland’s “so kids can read sooner ” statement is cringe- worthy.
New Mexico: ” We don’t need no education.” (Pink Floyd)
Deb still hasn’t paid off her student loans, she says that she has no money…
Haaland’s big accomplishment while at Interior was to have the US Geological Survey remove the word “squaw” from all locations on their topographical maps such as creeks, mountains, etc.
Deb Squaawland
MEMO TO REPUBLICAN PARTY(alb.): for once get your head out of your ass with this guv. candidate. Promote him in every county with a message that hits home and hits hard.
DEB HAALAND is a HOAX. Always has been. She was born in Winslow,AZ. to a very nordic white european father surname Haaland.Her mother was a native american . But deb was not from New Mexico, not from Laguna Acoma Reservation to begin with. She did get through high school and college with diploma and degree. After that she stepped onto the DEI train of infinite goodies. UCLA
admitted her , in a very underqualified state, and dismissed her from
their somewhat rigorous Law School after one year. Then along comes UNM School of Law to pick up this flailing fledgling law student. They conferred a Juris Doctorate upon her after five years. Then she failed to pass any and all attempts at the state bar exam.
Along the way she also padded her resume with degrees in drinking (DWI) and driving (DUI). So, drunken Dr. Deb then steps onto the very
lucrative plain of social advocate, indigenous people uplift, bllah blah,bla. She eventually becoomes a US congress woman and then head of the Dept of Interior. nothing she did in these high titled positions helped anybody from where she claims home. Look up the student performance for the schools K12 in Laguna Acoma. The results from a span of 15 years …Pre Covid, Covid, Post Covid are the
same, at the lowermost part of all of New Mexico which at the lowermost part of the entire United States. The community is not improved in economics, health, crime or education because of her titles, her programs or her initiatives. She is a fraud on her proclaimed heritage, a pox on her people and she will drive New Mexico as a state further into the abyss of poverty, crime and dependency. That is her experience and her modus operandi. Be careful if you criticize her , she will doxx you, your family, your friends. Just ask Sam Bregman.
Way back when Susana Martinez was wanting to focus on reading and writing in schools and making sure kids could read by third grade, THIRD GRADE!!!!, the Democrats in the state were hell-bent against the idea. Now our kids are even further behind the rest of the nation due to Democrat policies forcing teachers to reward students doing NOTHING and getting “F” grades 50% automatically. Since when can anyone get paid half salary for doing nothing?
This sends absolutely the WRONG message to children. Not to mention trying to indoctrinate our children in “social justice” lessons that ignore concepts such as equality of opportunity and excellence.
Haaland seems to be absolutely the wrong choice for someone who knows how to excel.
So she is going to get our students to read because as the in the video she stated she was in charge of 7000 individuals. So ask her how is this resume going to help the students. She doesn’t say we will get us from 50 (last) to at least 48. No she will do a MLG and get more money to the schools. More money for Superintents, Principles, Staff, Athletics, and new buildings. Nothing for students. Don’t let anyone you know speak about her being a woman raising children on her own, going to school as we all know someone who has been in this position and they don’t bring it up like she does. What about paying her school loan. What did she do with all the money the government paid her?
Yada, yada; same ole, same ole rhetoric I have been hearing from the demorats for over 70 years! How do you plan to get kids up to reading level?
My daughter showed me a clip of a journalist in Albuquerque asking 20 something year olds how many minutes were in a quarter of an hour? I was floored! I think that only one tenth of the people queried provided the correct answer! Two areas of vital importance and all these illustrious elected officials have not done what they promised to do, oh wait..they threw more money at the problem! Those poor people in south eastern NM in the gas and oil industry who provide the majority of funding for education. How are the counties of Chavez, Lea, and Roosevelt being paid back for their contributions to NM? It’s no wonder they are considering seceding. Texas will take care of them.
Haaland, Vasquez, Fernandez, Heinrich, Lujan, Stansbury and MLG don’t give one flying leap about NM, they just want to continue to feed their egos (like a really bad drug dependency).