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Last updated on December 5, 2024.
Ana Violeta Navarro-Cárdenas is a Nicaraguan-American political strategist and commentator. She appears on various television programs and news outlets, including CNN, CNN en Español, ABC News, and Telemundo. She is also a weekly guest co-host of the daytime talk show The View, garnering Emmy Award nominations for her work. She is a member of the Republican Party.
Some Americans question Donald Trump's legitimacy as president. Others are angry any questioning occurs. Let's not forget that one of Donald Trump's claims to fame was precisely such questioning. He openly doubted the legitimacy - more than that, the citizenship - of President Barack Obama.
There's something in the Latino community called 'la promesa de Obama' - Obama's promise. He made very specific promises to the Latino community. He committed to enacting comprehensive immigration reform within his first year.
Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.
I get paid to talk politics, which I've done my entire life and I would do for free anyway.
I - look, I, you know, I find Donald Trump completely un-presidential, unacceptable. I don't like his methods. I don't think he's got any policies.
I wasn't born in Mexico - I was born in Nicaragua - but I know that, when somebody like Donald Trump says 'Mexicans,' he means all of us. He means anybody who comes from south of the border.
I cast my vote against Donald Trump. I did it without joy or enthusiasm. I did it out of civic duty and love for our country.
Candidates are up one day, down the other. Candidates' fortunes turn on a dime. They can be determined by a good or bad debate performance.
Attacking another American's qualifications solely based on his ethnic background is bigotry. Plain and simple.
I voted against Donald Trump for every American who looks and sounds like me. Because we love this country. We are proud of this country. We stand as equals in the United States of America.
I think you can applaud President Trump's efforts on health care if that's where you lie. I think you can applaud his naming of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, but I think when he does something like make a veiled threat against the former FBI Director... I think people expect for leaders to step up and condemn that.
I hate picking a bone with Paul Ryan; he's a friend of mine, but I think he needs to walk and chew gum at the same time.
Nobody does more identity politics than Donald Trump.
Republicans need to speak up, and people need to know that not all Republicans are represented by the hostile, vile voice of Donald Trump.
I believe in the redemptive need to admit mistakes, express regret, and ask for forgiveness.
I am uncomfortable with Sarah Palin. I have nothing against her. I'll say she's a very talented woman. Yet I think she owes John McCain her gratitude and loyalty.
Donald Trump is either a racist or peddling to it, and both are frankly unacceptable and make him unfit to be president of the United States.
Peddling to racism is just as bad as being a racist.
I'm not saying all Trump supporters are deplorable, but I am saying that the president of the United States has got to measure his words and be more careful about what he says.
As exhausted as they may be, Republicans need to appeal to their sense of consciousness. To their principles. To what is right and wrong. To American values.
There is nothing more American than acknowledging that even if we don't agree politically, even if we don't agree with the president, even if we don't like each other, all of us have the same rights.
It's become easy for Americans to live in a cocoon of monolithic ideology and thought. It's time to embrace diversity of thought and diversity of experience.
I know Marco Rubio very well. He's a friend of mine. He's a man of deep faith. He is a man who follows Catholic dogma and - you know, for whom religion is very important.
We must have zero tolerance for sexual harassment, even if the perpetrator is somebody we like and admire.
Romney is not funny. When he tries to be, it often comes across as awkward.
Unless I move to a desert island with poor reception, I'll never stop speaking out!
Trump enabled, allowed, peddled to, and promoted the worst in America - racism, division, discrimination, misogyny - during his campaign. I will never forget or forgive him for that.
At some point, you got to stop caring about people's expectations and care only about your expectations of yourself.
I'm not the kind of person that sits around kind of envisioning things.
I can very much look into the camera and say, 'I believe Donald Trump is a racist.' You don't get to make textbook racist remarks for a year and not be a racist. You don't get to make textbook sexist remarks for a year and not be a misogynist.
The one thing I've always tried to do in my life, in my work, on TV, is I just keep it real. I find it hard and time-consuming to try to be fake.
The Republican Party I grew up in was a Republican Party of family unity.
If you can't be president - if you cannot stand up and represent Americans, you should not be president.
Why am I a liberal? Because I don't forget that I'm an immigrant and that I'm a Hispanic and that I have a Latin accent when I speak English, and I want to defend those who get racially profiled by people who would discriminate against us?
I think what Donald Trump needs to do is quit. I think he needs to stop being the Republican nominee.
People say to me all the time, 'When did you know that you had fully become an American?' And I say, 'The day I realized I loved peanut butter.'
Here is the most important thing for us all to remember, for the sake of our common sanity and safety: In America, the right to vote and democratically elect a president is just as precious and valued as the right to protest and express yourself against that president.
I think there's such disgust and frustration because of Trump that people see me as the vessel for that frustration. They see me as the person who can give voice to what they're feeling.
Look, does gender play a part in how people perceive Hillary Clinton? Yes. But it's also not the reason people criticize her about the emails or Benghazi.
If you're going to worry about what you said on TV, then don't get on TV.
I'm a Latina from Miami. I pity you if you think you're going out-shout me.
People ask me if I have comedy writers, and I'm like, 'Are you kidding me?'
Miami is one of these places where diversity is in our blood, where, you know, if you want to go have a Nicaraguan breakfast, a Cuban lunch, and an American diner dinner, you do.
Politics is a pendulum.
The fake news and the lying doesn't surprise me anymore. The one thing we know he is consistent about, Trump, is lying.
I'm not sure gay marriage was an issue that made or didn't make any single election that I can think of.
I have been a Republican since I came to this country, fleeing communism when I was eight years old and Ronald Reagan was president.
When someone shows you who they are, the first time, believe them.
I think if there aren't Republicans standing up to Trump and showing America that he does not represent the Republican Party, then he has the potential to ruin the brand and turn it into toxic waste for generations.
I became a Republican, before I knew what a Republican even was, because of Ronald Reagan.
I fled communism as a child. That's an experience that can shape you forever.
It must be so nice to be a white male.
I love Marco Rubio, and I love Jeb Bush. But I've loved Jeb longer.
For too long, I think the African-American community has been taken for granted by one party and completely ignored by the other. It is not acceptable. It's not good for the parties, for the country, or for the community.
Donald Trump has shown us his dark heart, has shown us his racism.
There is a minimum requirement of morality, of moral compass, of decency, of moral empathy. And if you are incapable of meeting that minimum requirement, you can't even talk to me about policy.
It's crucial to democracy and good government to scrutinize our public officials.
I'm as desperate as anyone for there to be a DACA deal, for there to a deal on DREAMers.
If you can't control your tweeting habits, then stop tweeting. Go seek therapy.
The liberals love you until you say something critical about Hillary Clinton.