In New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District — a district President Donald Trump decisively carried in 2024 — far-left Democrat Gabe Vasquez continues to alienate his constituents by doubling down on radical opposition to the president’s commonsense agenda.
Since Trump’s second inauguration in January 2025, Vasquez has taken every opportunity to obstruct policies overwhelmingly supported by working Americans. Earlier this year, Vasquez voted against the Laken Riley Act, a commonsense bill requiring the detention of illegal aliens accused of serious crimes. Despite bipartisan support for this basic public safety measure, Vasquez instead sided with open-borders extremists, choosing the interests of criminal aliens over the safety of American citizens.
Worse yet, Vasquez opposed President Trump’s efforts to strengthen election integrity, including legislation to ban non-citizens from voting in local, state, and federal elections. Even though the overwhelming majority of Americans — including many Democrats — support restricting voting rights exclusively to U.S. citizens, Vasquez showed where his loyalties lie: with the radical left, not the voters of southern New Mexico.
At a recent town hall event in Las Cruces, Vasquez launched into a bitter tirade against President Trump, blasting the administration’s “immigration crackdowns” and accusing Trump of promoting “fear and division” — rhetoric more at home in deep blue New York City or Washington, D.C. than in Trump country New Mexico.
His contempt for the president is especially clear in his unhinged fundraising emails.
In two recent blasts to his donor list, Vasquez ranted about Trump’s investigation into ActBlue, the Democrat fundraising giant facing mounting scrutiny for suspected widespread fraud. In one email, Vasquez seethed:
“Donald Trump just signed a memorandum targeting ActBlue — the grassroots fundraising platform that powers nearly every Democratic campaign in the country — in an attempt to shut it down… Trump knows that grassroots movements like ours are the only thing standing between him and total control.”
Rather than addressing the credible allegations of financial misconduct surrounding ActBlue — including concerns about illicit foreign donations and donor fraud — Vasquez played the victim, calling Trump’s efforts to safeguard campaign finance laws an “attack” and a “rigging of the system.”
In another desperate appeal, Vasquez went even further, lashing out at Trump’s economic policies and bizarrely blaming the president for New Mexico’s economic woes:
“Trump’s economic policies are a disaster for the country and the world… Instead, they’re falling in line and remaining silent. They are letting Trump drag our economy into chaos.”
Vasquez even bragged about teaming up with radical leftist Senator Cory Booker to introduce legislation targeting private companies like those owned by Elon Musk — a transparent publicity stunt that does nothing to help New Mexico’s struggling farmers and ranchers.
For a man representing a district that overwhelmingly voted for President Trump, Vasquez’s nonstop hostility toward the administration is nothing short of political malpractice. Instead of working with President Trump to secure the border, lower inflation, and restore law and order, Vasquez seems more concerned with playing resistance warrior for a Washington, D.C. donor class out of touch with New Mexican values.
With his reckless and sketchy voting record, repeated attacks on the president, and open disdain for his own constituents’ priorities, Gabe Vasquez is making it clear: he’s not interested in representing the people of southern New Mexico — he’s only interested in fighting Trump at every turn.
Voters will remember.
John Block represents New Mexico House District 51 — Alamogordo — in the state Legislature. He is the founder and editor of the Piñon Post — New Mexico’s #1 online conservative news source.
What else can one expect from a gang banger from Cruces? The demtards got the 2nd to include parts of valencia and bernie and leo county to get this thug elected. Great photo of him in his natural attire: a bandido mask!
He was born in El Paso and lived in Juarez also. He is not a New Mexican. He’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing .
Vasquez simply is following the commie party line cause he has zero ideas of his own. He is like the rest of NM congressional delegation who do the same because they were placed in their positions by fraud , gerrymandering and dark money that want NM to fail under communism and leftist policies. This current group shows that it is easier to destroy than to build, to criticize than to employ real solutions that can take NM from last in every meaningful category to improvement in schools, public safety etc.
The GOP needs a dynamic, articulate, and charismatic candidate to beat Vasquez in the next election. He didn’t win by that much and informed voters would see a difference.
Grubby Gabe only focuses on Dem-Com issues. You will never hear action plans to better the state or country. Destroy the state and keep NM in poverty while scamming the system.
I’m surprised Vasquez didn’t join Senator Van Hollen in toasting fellow hood Kilmer Abrego Garcia in El Salvador.
Whatever Trump is for, Vasquez and the other radical leftists will be against.
Resistance is futile, Gabe.
Investigation of who he is tied to is in order
Most def!
Vazquez forgets which side of the border he’s supposed to represent.
Gabe… read the room…you are missing some screws. You rant and rave but all that comes out of your mouth is verbiage New Mexican’s are not buying…
Stop your tirade so you don’t look so dumb, uneducated and just plain stupid
Agreed, that he would be a suspect of someone in collusion with the cartels. These people will continue to smear and slant the truth while their followers will continue to behave as insects with a hive-mind mentality. This is what those that still have discernment and critical thinking skills will be witnessing.
Why aren’t republicans looking into his familial ties to cartel.
agree with all the messages but what is the plan to get a conservative to run. I hate to say it but a Spanish name gets people elected in NM, maybe not necessaraly informed citizens but none informed citizens definitely go with the name.
ALL DEMOCRATS ARE THIEFS AND VAZQUEZ IS PART OF THE CARTELS AND HE IS A BABY KILLER I STILL WONDER IF ANY DEMOCRAT IN OFFICE IF THEIR PARENTS HAVE ANY KIDS THAT LIVED GABE IS PROOF HE HATES AMERCIA AND GOD I HATE IILEGLES