| This week, Florida Politics named Salazar the #9 most cringeworthy “political car wreck” in the entire Sunshine State thanks to her constant flip-flopping and failure to stand up for Miami-Dade’s immigrant communities.
For years, Salazar openly cheerleaded Donald Trump’s immigration agenda, only to now “[recoil] as the Trump administration does precisely what it said it would do.”
“Salazar is discovering what happens when you enthusiastically help build the Face-Eating Leopards Party,” Florida Politics says.
DCCC Spokesperson Madison Andrus:
“Maria Elvira Salazar tried to have it both ways, and now she’s finding out that Floridians aren’t falling for her desperate attempts to save face, and they will vote her out of office next November.”
Read the full piece on Salazar’s hypocrisy below:
Florida Politics: A dozen Florida political car wrecks you won’t be able to avoid in 2026
No. 9: María Elvira Salazar
- María Elvira Salazar is discovering what happens when you enthusiastically help build the Face-Eating Leopards Party.
- For years, Salazar was reliably pro-Trump on immigration, border security, and the broader enforcement-first posture that played well among Republican Primary voters and conservative media. Now she’s recoiling as the Trump administration does precisely what it said it would do.
- Suddenly, Salazar is heartbroken. She’s issuing letters. She’s posting videos. She’s reintroducing her long-stalled “Dignity Act.” She’s pleading for mercy for Venezuelans, Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who make up the backbone of her Miami-Dade district. And yet, when it mattered, she lined up with the very administration now torching the immigration framework she claims to defend.
- The result is a politician who finds herself “entre la espada y la pared.” Democrats accuse her of performative outrage. Immigration hardliners see weakness in apostasy. Hispanic voters, meanwhile, are watching friends and family members get swept up in enforcement actions.
- Would it be shocking if she drew a serious Primary challenge from her right or found herself in a General Election dogfight fueled by collapsing Hispanic support? Do leopards eat faces?
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