Far-left Democrat Deb Haaland used a friendly national television appearance on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” this week to promote her new memoir, tout her Biden administration record, and frame her campaign for governor as a direct fight against President Donald Trump.
Haaland, who recently won the Democratic nomination for New Mexico governor, appeared on the program to discuss her book, “A Voice Like Mine,” while the hosts repeatedly highlighted her biography and potential to make history again if elected governor.
The segment opened by noting that Haaland was one of the first Native American women elected to Congress and later became the first Native American to serve in a presidential cabinet when Joe Biden selected her as secretary of the interior.
Haaland leaned heavily into that theme, saying the title of her book came from her first congressional campaign.
“My media consultant, she said, we were all on a call one day and she just said, well, Congress has never heard a voice like yours,” Haaland said. “And I was like, yeah.”
She added that the phrase became a campaign slogan: “Congress has never heard a voice like mine.”
Haaland told the program that “representation matters,” pointing to her work on missing and murdered Indigenous people and federal Indian boarding schools.
But the interview quickly shifted from biography to politics, where Haaland gave voters plenty to notice.
Asked about running as a former Biden administration official after Democrats have faced anger over how Biden’s presidency ended, Haaland defended the record.
“I have a long record of accomplishment serving with President Biden as the secretary of the interior,” Haaland said.
She specifically touted placing “millions of acres of land into conservation” and claimed the Biden administration “stood up a clean energy transition for our entire country.”
“We have a strong record of accomplishment and nothing can take away from that,” Haaland said. “We did those. We did that work.”
For conservatives, that line may be one of the most revealing in the interview. Haaland is not distancing herself from Biden. She is running directly on the Biden-Haaland record, including the administration’s aggressive land and energy agenda.
Haaland also pointed to her time running the Department of the Interior, saying her executive experience separates her from other candidates.
“I have the experience of leading a department of 70,000 career staff and an $18 billion annual budget,” she said. “I did that for four consecutive years.”
Then came the anti-Trump pitch.
Haaland said that “right now leadership is important in our country” and declared that “governor is the first line of defense against the worst policies coming out of the Trump administration.”
When asked how she would deal with the Trump administration if elected governor, Haaland immediately listed deportations, Medicaid, and food stamps.
“It’s not just deportations, it’s cutting of Medicaid and SNAP benefits,” she said, claiming those policies “could close five rural hospitals in my state.”
She then blamed Trump for rising costs.
“Trump is making things more expensive,” Haaland said, citing gas prices “over four and a half dollars a gallon.”
Then she escalated the attack.
“Trump is making people in my state sicker, poorer and hungrier,” Haaland said.
Haaland said New Mexico would need to “push back against this administration” and “sue the administration for the things that they are obligated to our state for.”
“I know how the federal government works and I’m going to work hard to make sure that New Mexicans are protected against these worst policies that are coming out of the White House,” she added.
The comments offer a clear preview of Haaland’s general election strategy: nationalize the race around Trump, defend the Biden administration, and portray herself as the governor who would fight Washington Republicans.
The interview also included comments likely to raise eyebrows among conservatives concerned about land use, energy, and private property. Haaland described New Mexico and the broader United States through the lens of ancestral land, saying, “The United States was all Indian land at one time and it is our ancestral homeland.”
“And so we care deeply about the land, the water, our natural resources,” she said.
That worldview tracks closely with Haaland’s record at Interior, where she pushed conservation, clean energy, and federal land policies that many Western energy producers, ranchers, and rural communities have criticized as hostile to traditional land use.
Haaland also promoted the Biden administration’s green energy agenda, saying it produced “12 offshore wind projects and 50 solar projects in the southwest alone.”
The appearance was largely friendly, with hosts praising Haaland’s story and history-making political career. One host called her story “incredible,” while another highlighted her “thirty fifth generation New Mexican” background.
But for New Mexico conservatives, the substance was more important than the soft-focus framing.
Haaland used the national platform to embrace the Biden record, push a climate-heavy federal résumé, attack Trump over immigration and spending fights, and promise to use the governor’s office as a weapon against the current administration.
If elected, Haaland made clear she would not be a check on the far-left policies coming from national Democrats. She would be one of their most eager state-level enforcers.
God help New Mexico
For sure….
a more accurate statement would be that Haaland has declared war on reality. she has no plans, no knowledge, no skills, no anything to fix NM which has nothing to do with trump. as dumb as she is she knows her voters are even dumber and think that fighting trump is an answer. to something. The Good ship New Mexico Titanic II about to set sail. Captain Deb at the helm. we are all going to drown.
Coudn’t have said it better…. You are so right.
a more accurate statement would be that Haaland has declared war on reality. she has no plans, no knowledge, no skills, no anything to fix NM which has nothing to do with trump. as dumb as she is she knows her voters are even dumber and think that fighting trump is an answer. to something. The Good ship New Mexico Titanic II about to set sail. Captain Deb at the helm.
This is like a bad dream.
More like the Twilight Zone.
Deb Haaland seems to me an angry, jealous person, who uses her office to get back to people she hates.
Headlines in morning Journal “ NM ranks 49th in nation for child well-being. NM ranks 49th in education, NM ranks 49 in healthcare, NM ranks 49th in economic development, NM ranks 49th in retaining our medical professionals ETC .
NM is 1st in crime, NM is 1st in drug trafficking, NM is 1st in performing late term abortions, NM is FIRST with homeless population growing due to our leadership. It is a S—t Show.
If she gets sister it will be by cheating and we will be screwed. She is a stupid person when she says Biden that says it all
I hope people are waking up they will pay the price for being stupid and voting for her
She’s right, no one has heard a voice like hers. All she can get out is ( huh, duh, well, hum ). She is incapable of being Governor , she’s incompetent. Watched her on the Hill in front of Congress and she was a dumpster fire. Had no clue of what she was doing. She would be a disaster for New Mexico.
I’d say that Congress has far too often, for far too long, heard a voice like hers.
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New Mexico is doomed, as a conservative state (when you ask people their values) that believes they are democrats. Hate Trump is a stupid way to go, we currently have higher gas prices but do to the Iran issue, but during Biden fuel was higher, Trump has brought down the costs of medications, he has slowed the grow of prices that went up considerably during Biden and we know once prices go up they do not go down. I did not hear how our most likely next governor is going to accomplish anything, I know the current governor did the child day care across the state but we still do not have enough care givers for the children so was that a success or a failure, I wait for your answer. I am just glad I am a disable vet so my property taxes are low and Texas is less than a mile away. When will New Mexicans learn electing the same failure type leadership over and over with the same results is just ludicrous. Oh agree with all above.
“Orange man bad” is the red meat of the left. I’m tired of it. Anyone who praises Biden has rocks in their head.
I’m impressed with the like minded posts here Ken!!!!!! It’s nice to see common sense for a change
ORANGE MAN GOOD. pass the word. watch the heads explode when they hear it.
Orange man bad. The blue morons in this state will eat this up, hook line and sinker. TRUMP hate is all they have. Let’s alienate half of the population here in NM. Hell I’d vote blue if they actually had so common sense or had real ideas that would help NM. Criminal loving idiots that actually care more about them and themselves. To hell with the average taxpayers. I haven’t heard one word about the homeless or crime. Free this and free that…….unbelievable stupidity. Well that’s what has been running our cities and state for years now. Maybe just maybe this state will finally wake up and turn red, I seriously doubt it though
Never heard a voice like mine…you mean a US taxpayer funded dividend getting, rent free living, everything handed to her, no tax paying, 2 DUI having, unwed single mother who got divorced from another man later in life…yeah, Congress hasn’t. New Mexico shouldn’t but white liberal women propel women like her into Post Turtle positions all the time. It’s past time to repeal the 19th.
MSNBC should of asked her about her voice for the Castro regime inspired Venceramos Brigade that her and her daughter are involved in. She is just another stupid communist.
PRAY FOR NEW MEXICO!
https://youtu.be/702H8xU3oGY?is=YQZpVKOiWTcvP9z7
Voter Fraud is alive and well in NM and until we fix it, we are doomed.
46% of registered NM voters are Republican, yet we don’t have representation in Washington? Things just don’t add up.
Something stinks with our Secy of State.
We need clean voter rolls. Once we get rid of fraudulent votes, then we may have a chance. Right now Trump Admin is suing states, including NM for access to voter rolls. Why would the NM Secy of State refuse to give up the rolls? Because they’ll likely show dead voters, illegal voters, duplicate names, bogus addresses, etc. I’m not making this up, as even in red states who turned over their rolls, these voter fraud instances were found. Thousands and thousands of fraudulent votes. Enough to swing elections the wrong way!
We don’t have a chance unless this gets fixed! The Republican Party of NM is nowhere to be found. Repub Chair needs to resign now.
I agree with you about Republicans having no representation in Washington. In the video referenced here, Deb talks about her Native American representation saying ‘we all deserve to be represented.’ Republicans were gerrymandered out of our one seat in WA several years ago.
I think we are much like CA – if Dems need more votes, they WILL find them. Hopeless state of affairs.
Haaland was incompetent in the NM health dept job.
Incompetent as the CD1 rep.
Incompetent as the Secretary of the Interior.
Reviled by all indigenous communities but her own for doing nothing for them while at Interior.
Incompetent now and in any political position she can either be appointed to or somehow win by election.
Democrats have had a complete monopoly in state governmental affairs for 96 years and counting (in that time Republicans NEVER have had a trifecta, and in only two of those 96 years … in the 1980s … did they control both chambers of the state legislature … but with a Dem governor, so no conservative issues got advanced. Democrats OWN the pathetic and continuing state of decline in the state condition where we uniformly are last in the nation in every important/critical metric.
This HAS to be deliberate as no intelligent person could mistakenly accrue such failure. Like Milton’s Paradise Lost, Dems would rather rule (it’s all about power, not service) over a failed state than allow anyone not aligned with the party to show them it’s possible to climb out of the shithole Dems have created here.
That said, Republicans continually promote candidates who simply cannot and will not be elected; made worse in recent years by the party backing people who are aligned with and spew whatever bullshit Trump advances in their tiny minds.
NM may be predominantly Democratic, but a large portion of that constituency is comprised of rural Hispanics who have demonstrated they WILL vote for conservatives who honor their heritage and concerns. The Republican party refuses to understand this and raise moderate conservative candidates who CAN win election.
We are incredibly poorly led by both major parties and neither has any incentive to change. Democrats rely on generational autopilot voting by an electorate that does not take the time to learn and understand what the Democrats do to them; Republicans, in recent years seem to deliberately advance un-electable candidates who are predestined to lose in every cycle, thus allowing the party to whine and be aggrieved rather than having to demonstrate any competence in governing should one of them gain office.
I agree with almost everything you said. except there isnt ANY candidate repubs could put forth that will win. NM wont vote for a repub. who that person is doesnt matter look at calif as proof. we are just like them. every NM election is won with ABQ voters. they vote blue every time. i will also say that the NM repub party as a whole is the worst marketing organization in history. they do not discuss, create radio or TV ads to tell how the dems have wrecked the state, citing the policies democrats push in this state. ( john block and this website is the exception to that statement) the repubs didnt even push the fact that the dems in NM will continue to tax your overtime wages, tips, and social security. where are you repubs ? you are PATHETIC
As stupid as they come. God help us is she get’s elected. NM needs to wake the Hell up and vote some sense for a change. Is it time to move to Texas?
radio station claims deb had 2 DUI. where is the media coverage ? i didnt know NM needed a party animal to be governor.
can you imagine a voter so stupid they would pick deb over bregman ? you dont have to imagine it. its your next door neighbor. way to go NM . last in everything to include the ability to think and reason. add legal weed to the mix and it goes down hill from there.
The blind leading the blind are those people who keep voting for these ungodly people and they are getting what they deserve. Unfortunately, we who understand and have good brain cells, do not and will not vote for people who have no common sense or do not know what is best for this state. However; we will have to live in a state that is last in everything. And you can start with the schools, when they voted in “no one left behind” they created young adults that cannot read and have no understanding of common english.
Haaland is on the top of the dumb and dumber pile of stupidity at it’s finest! She will be a puppet governor if she for some ungodly reason (corruption at it highest) get voted into office. She will do the bidding of the far left socialist/communists and do as they say.
May God have mercy on us all.
The TDS infected sheep will put her in office. If you think Loser-Gruesome screwed the state, you are in for a bumpy ride, New Mexico.
This is just the first talk show with many more to come as the MSM media will lift her on par with Mother Teresa and anyone disagreeing will be called a racist.
Today Sec Mullins (DHS) says that we have found 146,000 UACs who trekked to America and they are still looking for 300,000. Most are in Santa Fe, Las Cruces, Albq, the SANCTUARY Cities because they figure they are safe there.
They are presumably with illegals who broker them (sell them for porn) and they have 💔 s.
Deb’s front pg message, SF New Mexican, June 10th is she wants to defend the State from Pres Trump, who has his people out looking for these children. ICE often finds them. I hope this offers some clues on what is going on with Democrats ♥ s.
Many children are raped 600 to 700X, they say and this must be beyond painful. Teachers can SEE it.
Yet, who is Deb wishing to protect? Criminal aliens who did not deliver the UACs, or if they did, it’s to an illegal in YOUR CITY.
Schools cannot protect these 💔 children in this type of City. The Governor wannabe will protect the torturer (state), she claims.
Well Audrey I heard deb deb deb was on Epstein Island three times. So that should tell everyone a story. You won’t here anything about that on the fake news. They don’t care about our children or the average taxpayers………..it’s all about their power and orange man bad.
She meets the two criteria that Democrat voters care about–she’s a “woman of color” and she hates Trump. Gregg Hull is far more qualified, but the preponderance of Democrat voters in the state does not bode well.