Democrats have been scrambling to explain away their massive election losses.
They’ve been pointing fingers at everyone except themselves.
But top Democrats just made one jaw-dropping admission about the border that has Trump grinning from ear to ear.
Democrats finally confess their border failures
A bombshell New York Times report dropped on Sunday with Democrats making shocking confessions about their border failures.
These admissions prove what Trump supporters have been saying for years – Democrats got destroyed on immigration because they ignored what voters actually wanted.
Border Democrats are now scrambling to explain how they lost districts that hadn’t gone Republican in generations.
Representative Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) delivered one of the most damning admissions about his party’s border disaster.
"When you have the most Latino district in the country outside of Puerto Rico vote for Trump, that should be a wake-up call for the Democratic Party," Gonzalez said.¹
The Times report highlighted that Gonzalez witnessed President Donald Trump "win every county in his district along the border with Mexico."¹
Gonzalez’s 34th district in Texas had voted heavily Democrat in recent presidential elections but flipped to Trump in 2024.
"This is a Democratic district that’s been blue for over a century," Gonzalez told the Times.¹
The report also highlighted a jaw-dropping moment from the 2020 Democrat primary debates.
Nearly every candidate raised their hand to support decriminalizing illegal border crossings.
That radical stance came back to destroy Democrats when voters had their say in November.
Arizona Democrat admits party "looked feckless" on border
Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) delivered another brutal assessment of his party’s border failures.
Gallego said the Democrat Party "got led astray by the 2016 and the 2020 elections, and we just never moved back."²
"We looked feckless, we weren’t decisive, we weren’t listening to voters, and the voters decided that we weren’t in the right when it comes to what was happening with the border," Gallego told the Times.²
The Arizona Senator released his own border security plan in May that would speed up asylum seekers’ claims and make other countries do their "fair share" in receiving asylum seekers.
But it was too little, too late.
Voters had already made up their minds about Democrats and the border.
Liberal think tank admits Democrats must embrace border security
Even liberal organizations are now panicking about Democrats’ border reputation.
The Center for American Progress just released a proposal that sounds like it came from a Republican playbook.
They want to expand legal immigration but also ramp up border security and crack down on asylum abuse.
Those used to be conservative talking points that Democrats spent years attacking as "racist."
Neera Tanden, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, admitted Democrats will have to adopt some level of border security policy.
"I’m happy to argue with Stephen Miller or anyone else about why they are wrong," Tanden told the New York Times. "But the way we’re going to be able to do that is to also honestly assess that the border has been too insecure, that it allowed too many people to come through and that we need to fix that."³
Obama administration official admits Democrats created a "vacuum"
Cecilia Muñoz served as director of the Domestic Policy Council under Barack Obama.
She delivered one of the most damning admissions about Democrats’ border failures.
"We, and I include myself in this, created a vacuum on this issue that we allowed the current president to fill," Muñoz said.⁴
She added that "the country is now living with the results. And the results are appalling."⁴
Muñoz’s admission is particularly significant because she was involved in crafting Obama’s immigration policies.
Even Obama administration officials are acknowledging they screwed up on the border.
Texas Democrat saw the writing on the wall in 2022
Representative Veronica Escobar (D-TX) said she "first realized Democrats were in trouble in December 2022," when illegal immigrants flooded into El Paso.⁵
"Living through what El Paso lived through, feeling how unsustainable all of this was, and frankly how challenging this was, I knew this would cause a massive shift in the perspective of Americans about immigration," Escobar said.⁵
"There was a failure on the part of the Democrat Party altogether during the last administration in adequately recognizing what was happening," she added.⁵
Escobar’s confession reveals that Democrats saw the train wreck coming but couldn’t stop it.
The party was too committed to open borders ideology to change course.
Even when their own districts were getting hammered, Democrats refused to listen to voters.
Trump’s border crackdown vindicated by Democrat confessions
These admissions from top Democrats prove that President Trump was right about the border all along.
Trump campaigned on securing the border and stopping the invasion of illegal immigrants.
Voters gave him a mandate to fix the mess that Democrats created.
Since taking office, Trump has launched an unprecedented crackdown on illegal immigration.
He ended "catch-and-release," shut down the CBP One app, and restarted construction of the border wall.
Trump also signed the Laken Riley Act into law, which requires illegal immigrants arrested or charged with theft or violence to be detained.
The President has moved quickly to undo the damage from four years of Biden’s open borders policies.
Democrats spent years calling Trump’s border policies "racist" and "xenophobic."
Now they’re admitting he was right and they were wrong.
These confessions from top Democrats prove that Trump’s America First agenda isn’t just popular – it’s necessary.
The American people demanded secure borders and Trump delivered.
Democrats are finally learning that ignoring the will of the people has consequences.
Sources:
- Rachel del Guidice, "Top Democrats admit ‘failure,’ fecklessness on border in scathing NY Times report," Fox News, July 7, 2025.
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