The View Tries to Stymie Rubio 2028 Surge, Suggests He’s a Race Traitor

Nicholas Fondacaro
May 8th, 2026 2:21 PM

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Following Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s press conference earlier this week, betting markets saw him surge into the lead for likely winner of the 2028 presidential race. This apparently didn’t sit well with the Cackling Coven of ABC’s The View as fake Republican Ana Navarro and staunchly racist Sunny Hostin tried to stymie his rise with suggestions that he was a race traitor. Navarro even engaged in some pretty egregious revisionist history that should leave her too embarrassed to show her face in her home of Miami, Florida.

Following a soundbite of Rubio’s viral “hope for America” comments, Friday moderator Joy Behar scoffed at it with incendiary accusations that could inspire even more political violence from the left.

“How about stop taking our voting right away?!” she decried. “How about not rounding up immigrants unlawfully?”

 

 

Navarro was the first to answer Behar’s initial about how it sounded like a presidential speech, confirming that it likely was. She then delved into doomerism as she lamented how all of Rubio’s positive qualities now ring “hollow” because he supposedly betrayed Latinos for President Trump.

She even accused him of being “complicit” with the “torturing” of his people and other minorities:

NAVARRO: But it all rings so hollow now for him to say that we live this a country where the color of your skin doesn't matter, where where you came from doesn't matter.

BEHAR: Please.

NAVARRO: When he has been silently complicit -

HOSTIN: Yes!

NAVARRO: - serving in an administration that targets people, racially profiles people, you know, is basically persecuting and torturing Latinos and Latino immigrants, is taking away voting rights from the African Americans, firing people for the color of their skin.

She also predicted that Rubio would stab Vice President J.D. Vance in the back, like he supposedly did to Jeb Bush.

 

 

In response to co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin admitting Rubio was “[t]he odds on favorite for the Republican nominee for 2028,” Hostin unleashed her contempt for him. “Well then the Republicans are going to lose because I do not think that Marco Rubio can remove the stench of the Trump administration from his very being!” she bitterly shouted and sneered.

Hostin was also fairly explicit with her rhetoric accusing Rubio of being a race traitor. She invoked his Latino heritage and decried how he was not looking out for “black and brown countries”:

He is the son of immigrants from Cuban that came here in 1956. How dare he stand by complicity and allow Latinos to be rounded up, allow American citizens to be shot in the face and shot in the chest and shot in the back! How dare he allow the voting -- stand by idly while the Voting Rights Act is gutted and disenfranchising African American voting! Something that African Americans who built this joint for free, who built this country for free be disenfranchised of their vote!

And at the moment as the secretary of state immigrants from -- travel ban countries are currently in limbo. The Trump administration has expanded travel restrictions to include 39 countries facing full or partial bans. A lot black and brown countries.

 

 

Of course, she didn’t mention which countries and why. As Cornell University listed, the countries with complete travel bans included: “(New) Burkina Faso, Laos, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, and Syria. (Continuing) Afghanistan, Burma (Myanmar), Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen.” And most of the countries with partial restrictions border many of the fully restricted ones.

What did those countries have in common? They either didn’t have functioning governments that could vet travelers and issue legitimate documentation, were run by terrorists/in the process of being taken over by them, were actively in in a civil war, or actively hostile to the United States.

Navarro bookended their smears of Rubio as a race traitor by engaging in revisionist history about his family and the Cuban Revolution. “They didn't leave political turmoil. They left as you mentioned in 1956,” she prefaced. “So, they left before the Cuban Revolution. They left because they were poor. They left like so many people leave Mexico, leave some other countries, because they were looking for better -- for economic opportunities.”

 

 

The Cuban Revolution went on for over five years between 1953 and 1959, which meant his family left right in the middle of it. It also didn’t make sense give that in her earlier comments she touted that “[h]is personal story is so poignant,” which included his family history.

Navarro’s lies about the Cuban Revolution should make her too embarrassed to show her face in the Cuban-American and Latino social circles of Miami, her hometown.

The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:

ABC’s The View
May 8, 2026
11:02:17 a.m. Eastern

(…)

SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO: My hope for America is what it's always been. I think it's the hope I hope we all share. We want it to continue to be the place where anyone from anywhere can achieve anything. Where you're limited by the circumstances of your birth, the color of your skin of ethnicity, but, frankly, it’s a place you are able to overcome challenges and achieve your full potential.

I think that should be the goal of every country in the world, frankly. But I think, in the U.S., we're not perfect. Our history is not one of perfection, but it's still better than anybody else's history. And ours is a story of perpetual improvement. Each generation has left the next generation of Americans freer, more prosperous, safer, and that is our goal, as well.

[Cuts back to live]

JOY BEHAR: How about stop taking our voting right away?!

SUNNY HOSTIN: How about that?!

BEHAR: How about that?! How about not rounding up immigrants unlawfully?

That sounds an awful lot like a campaign speech. Is he doing damage control so he can run in 2028?

ANA NAVARRO: It actually is a campaign speech. I have been hearing the same version of these words from Marco for, I don’t know, 20-plus years. I've known Marco since we were in our 20s.

And it kind of breaks my heart because I remember finding him so inspiring. You know, he just has this aspirational quality to him. He's incredibly eloquent. His personal story is so poignant. But it all rings so hollow now for him to say that we live this a country where the color of your skin doesn't matter, where where you came from doesn't matter.

BEHAR: Please.

NAVARRO: When he has been silently complicit -

HOSTIN: Yes!

NAVARRO: - serving in an administration that targets people, racially profiles people, you know, is basically persecuting and torturing Latinos and Latino immigrants, is taking away voting rights from the African Americans, firing people for the color of their skin. So it just -- To me it's heartbreaking and disappointing but I do think Marco is going to end up running in 2028.

I know he tries to play nice that J.D. Vance and him try to play like they're buddy-buddies. I've seen this movie before. I remember when he was Jeb Bush's mentee. When he was incredibly buddy-buddy with Jeb Bush and stabbed him in the back. So, if I were J.D. Vance, I wouldn't -- I wouldn't look the other way.

(…)

11:05:33 a.m. Eastern

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: The odds on favorite for the Republican nominee for 2028, as of today, are absolutely Marco Rubio.

SUNNY HOSTIN: Well then the Republicans are going to lose because I do not think that Marco Rubio can remove the stench of the Trump administration from his very being!

He is the son of immigrants from Cuban that came here in 1956. How dare he stand by complicity and allow Latinos to be rounded up, allow American citizens to be shot in the face and shot in the chest and shot in the back! How dare he allow the voting -- stand by idly while the Voting Rights Act is gutted and disenfranchising African American voting! Something that African Americans who built this joint for free, who built this country for free be disenfranchised of their vote!

And at the moment as the secretary of state immigrants from -- travel ban countries are currently in limbo. The Trump administration has expanded travel restrictions to include 39 countries facing full or partial bans. A lot black and brown countries.

And what about Haiti. You think a Haitian should -- is allowed to be here with their temporary status just thrown away and going back to a country that is in complete political turmoil, when his very parents left political turmoil and found asylum here? It's disgusting!

NAVARRO: Can I tell you something. They didn't leave political turmoil. They left as you mentioned in 1956.

HOSTIN: 1956.

NAVARRO: So, they left before the Cuban Revolution. They left because they were poor. They left like so many people leave Mexico, leave some other countries, because they were looking for better -- for economic opportunities.

HOSTIN: Even worse, even worse then on Marco Rubio!

NAVARRO: And his grandfather at one point had a deportation order. His grandfather who he adored -

HOSTIN: That's right!

NAVARRO: - had a deportation order against him. Would have been deported under Trump.

(…)

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