Laura Loomer: Carlos Gimenez to ‘abandon’ Trump, run for Miami mayor

Is Congressman Carlos Gimenez really thinking of jumping ship in D.C. because he didn’t get a fancy committee chair? That’s what the queen of conspiracy, Laura Loomer, says. And while Loomer has made a career out of conspiracy theories, stunts, and playing the victim every time someone dares to call out her nonsense, for once, Ladra has to admit, the chisme kinda tracks.
This might not be one of her regular tinfoil-hat chats.
Loomer has been banned from more platforms than Ladra has cafecitos in a day — and that’s saying something. Twitter, Facebook, Uber, Lyft, PayPal — even GoFundMe had banned her at one time because of her hate speech. But she’s back on Twitter, where she posted Wednesday that she allegedly got a scoop about Gimenez licking his wounds after losing out on the Homeland Security Committee chairmanship and is now seriously considering a run for City of Miami mayor in 2025.
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And that started a Twitter beef with Gimenez, who struck back.
“Once again, Loomer doesn’t have the faintest idea of what she’s talking about. She doesn’t like that I stand with the Venezuelan people in their fight for freedom,” Gimenez posted. “Instead, she would rather funnel millions into the pockets of the leaders of the Cartel de los Soles — a criminal narco-terrorist regime headed by none other than Nicolas Maduro and an officially designated global terrorist organization by President Trump.”
As one could imagine, Loomer responded with long screeds about false accusations and Gimenez being a RINO who didn’t deny he’s leaving congress — and he did not — and who has promised his son, onetime Trump lobbyist Carlos “CJ” Gimenez, his District 28 seat.
No, Laura. It would be his daughter-in-law, Tania Cruz Gimenez, who would run for congress. Cruz Gimenez, who ran the successful campaign of the newly-elected Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosanna “Rosie” Cordero-Stutz, is a Republican now and made a big deal out of switching from the Democratic Party with a totally unnecessary swearing-in ceremony, pledging her loyalty to the GOP, officiated by none other than House Speaker Mike Johnson.
The photos will make for great campaign mailers.
Ladra’s been hearing about a possible run for months. The rumors started circulating long before the chairmanship opened up and a new the Homeland Security chair was named last week. But maybe that was el colmo ya.
Gimenez, who was mayor of Miami-Dade from 2011 to 2020, was the first Republican to launch a bid to chair the powerful committee after U.S. Rep. Mark Green stepped down earlier this month. In a letter announcing his candidacy, Gimenez highlighted his background in public safety, executive leadership, and crisis management as qualifications for the position.
But the gavel went to Rep. Andrew Garbarino of New York instead, and reportedly that didn’t sit well with Carlos. Word is, he’s stewing in his district during August recess, plotting a potential homecoming.
Loomer frames it like a betrayal of Trump and the House GOP — which is hilarious, considering Gimenez has been the political equivalent of a wind sock when it comes to Trump. Don’t forget: he voted for Hillary in 2016, only climbed aboard the Trump Train after it was already barreling down the tracks, and got booed at a Miami Trump rally like he walked onstage wearing a Fauci T-shirt and handing out vaccine cards.
There is some room for doubt because Gimenez loves the national spotlight. He is on every cable news show he can And he is still chairman of the Homeland Security Committee’s Transportation and Maritime Security subcommittee as well as a member of its Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection subcommittee. He is also a member of the Readiness subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee and the U.S. House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the U.S. and Chinese Communist Party, which sounds made up but it’s not.
Also, the idea of a former county mayor parachuting into a city mayor’s race is classic Gimenez. He started his career as a firefighter in Miami and has always loved the idea of saving people. This gives him the chance to pitch his campaign as a hero coming home to save us from Commissioner Joe Carollo, who is also threatening a run for mayor.
Gimenez also likes being a big fish in a small putrid pond more than being a small fish in a big, dark swamp. And he might be sick of taking the hits for Trump’s chaotic and cruel immigration policy and mass deportation fiesta, which is affecting his own constituents more than Gimenez would like.
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And if he does resign his congressional seat, it could trigger a special election in a swingy district — exactly the kind of opening Democrats are dying for as they try to flip the House. They only need three seats. Gimenez, who has been included in a number of mayoral election polls, has until September 20 to qualify in the Miami mayoral race. So he can still mull it over for a while.
He would be entering a crowded clown car clusterbunch race, but that might help him stand out and become the frontrunner right away.
“If Gimenez does, in fact, resign from Congress to run for Mayor of the City of Miami, he would be abandoning President Trump’s agenda and would set his congressional seat up for a special election, which could be disastrous for the Republicans as they fight to keep the House majority in 2026,” Loomer wrote in her Twitter post. 
Disastrous? Sure, the right Democrat could seize the opportunity and take that seat. But it seems a safely red district that State Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez can just slide into without breaking a sweat. Other potential wannabes include Miami-Dade Commissioner Roberto Gonzalez, who is ultra-right and has been super active on the dais lately, since he won the veto overturn on removing the fluoride in the water.
You know the type. They get one little win — maybe a headline, a hashtag, a handshake from someone with a title — and suddenly they think they’re the second coming of Lincoln. Or at least the next savior of South Florida.
Ladra calls it “getting drunk on their own press clippings.” One sip of success and they’re already measuring the drapes at City Hall, forgetting that local voters are not as easy to charm as the three people liking their Facebook post.
So is Laura Loomer suddenly a reliable source? No, she’s more like a performance artist — and not even a good one. More like bad improv at a MAGA open mic event.
But if The Simpsons is prophetic and a broken clock is right twice a day, then why can’t Loomer be onto something?
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