Following Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s press convention earlier this week, betting markets noticed him surge into the lead for probably winner of the 2028 presidential race. This apparently didn’t sit nicely with the Cackling Coven of ABC’s The View as faux Republican Ana Navarro and staunchly racist Sunny Hostin tried to stymie his rise with ideas that he was a race traitor. Navarro even engaged in some fairly egregious revisionist historical past that ought to depart her too embarrassed to point out her face in her house of Miami, Florida.
Following a soundbite of Rubio’s viral “hope for America” feedback, Friday moderator Pleasure Behar scoffed at it with incendiary accusations that would encourage much more political violence from the left.
“How about cease taking our voting immediately?!” she decried. “How about not rounding up immigrants unlawfully?”
Persevering with to make use of rhetoric that would incite violence (stochastic terrorism), Pleasure Behar claims the Trump administration is “taking our voting rights away” and “rounding up immigrants unlawfully.” pic.twitter.com/AgrmFN9jdn
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) Might 8, 2026
Navarro was the primary to reply Behar’s preliminary about the way it seemed like a presidential speech, confirming that it probably was. She then delved into doomerism as she lamented how all of Rubio’s optimistic qualities now ring “hole” as a result of he supposedly betrayed Latinos for President Trump.
She even accused him of being “complicit” with the “torturing” of his individuals and different minorities:
NAVARRO: However it all rings so hole now for him to say that we stay this a rustic the place the colour of your pores and skin does not matter, the place the place you got here from does not matter.
BEHAR: Please.
NAVARRO: When he has been silently complicit –
HOSTIN: Sure!
NAVARRO: – serving in an administration that targets individuals, racially profiles individuals, you understand, is mainly persecuting and torturing Latinos and Latino immigrants, is taking away voting rights from the African People, firing individuals for the colour of their pores and skin.
She additionally predicted that Rubio would stab Vice President J.D. Vance within the again, like he supposedly did to Jeb Bush.
Ana Navarro suggests America is now not a great nation and Marco Rubio was “complicit” in ruining it. Hinting at Rubio being a race traitor and again stabber, she claims the Trump administration is “persecuting and torturing Latinos and Latino immigrants.” pic.twitter.com/U58Gdghmbt
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) Might 8, 2026
In response to co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin admitting Rubio was “[t]he odds on favourite for the Republican nominee for 2028,” Hostin unleashed her contempt for him. “Properly then the Republicans are going to lose as a result of I don’t assume that Marco Rubio can take away the stench of the Trump administration from his very being!” she bitterly shouted and sneered.
Hostin was additionally pretty express along with her rhetoric accusing Rubio of being a race traitor. She invoked his Latino heritage and decried how he was not looking for “black and brown nations”:
He’s the son of immigrants from Cuban that got here right here in 1956. How dare he stand by complicity and permit Latinos to be rounded up, permit Americans to be shot within the face and shot within the chest and shot within the again! How dare he permit the voting — stand by idly whereas the Voting Rights Act is gutted and disenfranchising African American voting! One thing that African People who constructed this joint totally free, who constructed this nation totally free be disenfranchised of their vote!
And in the intervening time because the secretary of state immigrants from — journey ban nations are presently in limbo. The Trump administration has expanded journey restrictions to incorporate 39 nations going through full or partial bans. Loads black and brown nations.
Staunchly racist Sunny Hostin doubles down the incendiary suggestion that Rubio is a race traitor:
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: The percentages on favourite for the Republican nominee for 2028, as of right this moment, are completely Marco Rubio.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Properly then the Republicans are going to lose… pic.twitter.com/3hwTTCXIBo
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) Might 8, 2026
After all, she didn’t point out which nations and why. As Cornell College listed, the nations with full journey bans included: “(New) Burkina Faso, Laos, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, and Syria. (Persevering with) Afghanistan, Burma (Myanmar), Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.” And many of the nations with partial restrictions border most of the absolutely restricted ones.
What did these nations have in widespread? They both didn’t have functioning governments that would vet vacationers and challenge reliable documentation, had been run by terrorists/within the strategy of being taken over by them, had been actively in in a civil warfare, or actively hostile to america.
Navarro bookended their smears of Rubio as a race traitor by participating in revisionist historical past about his household and the Cuban Revolution. “They did not depart political turmoil. They left as you talked about in 1956,” she prefaced. “So, they left earlier than the Cuban Revolution. They left as a result of they had been poor. They left like so many individuals depart Mexico, depart another nations, as a result of they had been searching for higher — for financial alternatives.”
Whereas noting his household left Cuba in 1956, Navarro falsely claims Rubio’s household did not flee Cuba throughout the Cuban Revolution. The revolution befell between 1953 and 1959, in order that they left in the course of it:
NAVARRO: Can I inform you one thing. They did not depart political… pic.twitter.com/UX7D1HS3C6
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) Might 8, 2026
The Cuban Revolution went on for over 5 years between 1953 and 1959, which meant his household left proper in the course of it. It additionally didn’t make sense give that in her earlier feedback she touted that “[h]is private story is so poignant,” which included his household historical past.
Navarro’s lies in regards to the Cuban Revolution ought to make her too embarrassed to point out her face within the Cuban-American and Latino social circles of Miami, her hometown.
The transcript is beneath. Click on “increase” to learn:
ABC’s The View
Might 8, 2026
11:02:17 a.m. Jap(…)
SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO: My hope for America is what it is at all times been. I believe it is the hope I hope all of us share. We wish it to proceed to be the place the place anybody from anyplace can obtain something. The place you are restricted by the circumstances of your start, the colour of your pores and skin of ethnicity, however, frankly, it’s a spot you’ll be able to overcome challenges and obtain your full potential.
I believe that needs to be the objective of each nation on the planet, frankly. However I believe, within the U.S., we’re not good. Our historical past isn’t one among perfection, nevertheless it’s nonetheless higher than anyone else’s historical past. And ours is a narrative of perpetual enchancment. Every era has left the following era of People freer, extra affluent, safer, and that’s our objective, as nicely.
[Cuts back to live]
JOY BEHAR: How about cease taking our voting immediately?!
SUNNY HOSTIN: How about that?!
BEHAR: How about that?! How about not rounding up immigrants unlawfully?
That sounds an terrible lot like a marketing campaign speech. Is he doing harm management so he can run in 2028?
ANA NAVARRO: It truly is a marketing campaign speech. I’ve been listening to the identical model of those phrases from Marco for, I don’t know, 20-plus years. I’ve identified Marco since we had been in our 20s.
And it form of breaks my coronary heart as a result of I keep in mind discovering him so inspiring. You realize, he simply has this aspirational high quality to him. He is extremely eloquent. His private story is so poignant. However it all rings so hole now for him to say that we stay this a rustic the place the colour of your pores and skin does not matter, the place the place you got here from does not matter.
BEHAR: Please.
NAVARRO: When he has been silently complicit –
HOSTIN: Sure!
NAVARRO: – serving in an administration that targets individuals, racially profiles individuals, you understand, is mainly persecuting and torturing Latinos and Latino immigrants, is taking away voting rights from the African People, firing individuals for the colour of their pores and skin. So it simply — To me it is heartbreaking and disappointing however I do assume Marco goes to finish up working in 2028.
I do know he tries to play good that J.D. Vance and him attempt to play like they’re buddy-buddies. I’ve seen this film earlier than. I keep in mind when he was Jeb Bush’s mentee. When he was extremely buddy-buddy with Jeb Bush and stabbed him within the again. So, if I had been J.D. Vance, I would not — I would not look the opposite manner.
(…)
11:05:33 a.m. Jap
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: The percentages on favourite for the Republican nominee for 2028, as of right this moment, are completely Marco Rubio.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Properly then the Republicans are going to lose as a result of I don’t assume that Marco Rubio can take away the stench of the Trump administration from his very being!
He’s the son of immigrants from Cuban that got here right here in 1956. How dare he stand by complicity and permit Latinos to be rounded up, permit Americans to be shot within the face and shot within the chest and shot within the again! How dare he permit the voting — stand by idly whereas the Voting Rights Act is gutted and disenfranchising African American voting! One thing that African People who constructed this joint totally free, who constructed this nation totally free be disenfranchised of their vote!
And in the intervening time because the secretary of state immigrants from — journey ban nations are presently in limbo. The Trump administration has expanded journey restrictions to incorporate 39 nations going through full or partial bans. Loads black and brown nations.
And what about Haiti. You assume a Haitian ought to — is allowed to be right here with their non permanent standing simply thrown away and going again to a rustic that’s in full political turmoil, when his very dad and mom left political turmoil and located asylum right here? It is disgusting!
NAVARRO: Can I inform you one thing. They did not depart political turmoil. They left as you talked about in 1956.
HOSTIN: 1956.
NAVARRO: So, they left earlier than the Cuban Revolution. They left as a result of they had been poor. They left like so many individuals depart Mexico, depart another nations, as a result of they had been searching for higher — for financial alternatives.
HOSTIN: Even worse, even worse then on Marco Rubio!
NAVARRO: And his grandfather at one level had a deportation order. His grandfather who he adored –
HOSTIN: That is proper!
NAVARRO: – had a deportation order in opposition to him. Would have been deported below Trump.
(…)
