Ana Navarro addressed the 2024 Democratic National Convention as a registered Republican.
Now she told the whole country exactly why she still carries that card.
What she admitted on live television this week explains everything – and she said it laughing.
Ana Navarro Admitted on The View She Votes Against Republicans in the Florida Primary
On The View, actor Michael Douglas asked co-host Ana Navarro a question conservatives have been asking for years.
Why is she still a Republican?
The audience laughed before she answered.
"I live in Florida where the primaries are closed, and I want to be able to vote in the primaries and vote against those sons of b—es," she said.
She wasn't ashamed of it – she was proud of it, and the audience cheered.
This is the same woman who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, voted for Democrat Andrew Gillum for Florida governor in 2018, campaigned openly for Joe Biden, and then stood on stage at the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
All of it – every vote, every speech, every TV hit – done as a registered Republican.
The card isn't her identity – it's her weapon.
She has used it for a decade to vote against the candidates Florida Republicans actually want, and she just bragged about it to millions of viewers.
In a separate interview with Entertainment Weekly this week, Navarro went even further.
She admitted she used to be a "Republican hack" who received talking points from the RNC and Republican campaigns and ran them on television.
Now she claims she doesn't "get guidance from anybody."
Sure.
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How a Fake Republican Uses Florida's Closed Primary to Undermine GOP Candidates
What Navarro just described is primary rigging from the inside.
Stay registered Republican, get access to the Republican primary ballot, vote against every Republican candidate you can reach.
Florida built a closed primary system specifically to stop this, but it didn't work on Navarro because she never tried to sneak in.
She stayed.
She planted herself inside the Republican voter rolls while spending a decade voting Democrat and actively working to elect Democrats across Florida.
The Republican registration card is the only thing separating her from every other liberal co-host on daytime television.
Republican consultant Mary Marslender told Fox News Digital exactly what this is.
"Ana Navarro doesn't represent a broader phenomenon of GOP dissidents; she represents a total grift," Marslender said.
"'The View' needs a fake Republican who will constantly criticize actual Republicans, the president, and party donors, and she's keeping the title because it's her business plan to pull the Republican card meaninglessly," she added.
The RINO Business Model That Keeps Ana Navarro on The View and CNN
Navarro wasn't always running this play.
She came to the United States from Nicaragua in 1980 – a child fleeing the communist Sandinista regime – and Ronald Reagan's Republican Party was the one fighting to save her country.
That's why she became a Republican.
She served on Jeb Bush's Florida transition team in 1998, became his first director of immigration policy in the governor's office, and co-chaired John McCain's Hispanic outreach effort in 2008.
For nearly two decades, she was a legitimate Republican operative working for legitimate candidates with real money and real jobs on the line.
Trump beat Jeb in 2016, the work dried up, and Navarro made a choice: keep the card, switch the team.
CNN needed a "Republican" to bash Trump on camera, and The View needed one to give its liberal panel a fig leaf of balance. Navarro was the answer to both.
The entire pitch – the CNN contributor role, the co-host seat at ABC, the Entertainment Weekly profile – depends on that single word: Republican.
Drop it, and she's just another liberal co-host with a decade-old grudge against the man who ended her candidate's career.
Keep it, and she's the credible crossover voice corporate media can point to when someone notices the panel leans only one direction.
Her husband, Al Cárdenas, is the former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida – the very organization whose primaries she just admitted she has been working to undermine.
She laid out the whole business model – stay registered Republican, vote against every Republican on the primary ballot, and collect a paycheck for calling yourself one while doing it.
The Florida GOP should be asking hard questions right now – not about whether what she's doing is legal, but about how many other Ana Navarros are sitting in their voter rolls, registered to vote in their primaries, working against every candidate they field.
She's not the only one.
That's what Trump understood that the party establishment never did – he forced the issue by making loyalty to the actual voters the price of admission, and every Navarro who self-selected out made the party stronger for it.
The ones who stayed registered while going full Democrat are just the ones who can't afford to drop the label.
The party is better off knowing exactly who they are.
Sources:
- Mary Kay Linge, "Ana Navarro Tells Michael Douglas the Key Reason She Still Identifies as a Republican," Fox News Digital, October 2026.
- Staff, "The View Co-Host, CNN Commentator Ana Navarro to Host Night 2 of Democratic National Convention," Fox News, August 2024.
- Staff, "Ana Navarro Reveals Why She Still Calls Herself a Republican," Entertainment Weekly, October 2026.