“Dem men look like women, and the women look like men,” he texted. “We used to be about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Now we’re just boring.”
Arizona Democrat Senator Ruben Gallego is scrambling to contain the fallout after bombshell leaked texts exposed his savage critique of his own party — calling out their “woke image problem” and complaining they’ve become the “not fun” side of American politics.
In the explosive messages, which have been verified by multiple sources, Gallego goes scorched-earth on Democrat leadership, mocking fellow lawmakers’ appearances and lamenting that the Left “doesn’t let women be hot anymore.”
In a series of texts exchanged with a longtime political ally, the 46-year-old senator mocked his party’s increasingly androgynous image.
“Now Dem women look like Dem men,” he wrote, “and Dem men look like women.”
The friend had sent him a meme of 80-year-old Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), captioned: “If erectile dysfunction had a face.”
Gallego’s reaction? “They aren’t wrong.”
The same friend had tried to encourage Gallego to push for more leadership visibility, texting, “Start making moves… you could become the one who rebuilds and leads them.”
Gallego agreed — but not without trashing the vibe of his own party first.
“We look like the not fun party. Always correcting people. Not allowing men to be men. Women to be hot,” Gallego wrote. “We used to be the party of sex, drugs, and rock and roll.”
Rather than deny the messages, Gallego owned up to the comments when confronted by local Arizona media. (Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9vqnuabR44)
“I’m disappointed someone I trusted for over 20 years would leak private conversations,” he told ABC15 Phoenix. “But this is a reflection of things I’ve already said publicly.”
He doubled down, calling the Democratic Party’s image “exclusionary” and “narrow.”
“Our tent is too small,” Gallego said. “We need to be the party that welcomes everyone — and right now, we’re just not that.”
Despite the crude tone of his private texts, Gallego maintained that he’s been “open” about trying to reform the party’s appeal to working-class and culturally moderate voters — a segment President Trump overwhelmingly won again in 2024.
Gallego’s comments have further exposed the Democratic Party’s growing identity crisis heading into the 2026 midterms.
Once the party of Bill Clinton’s charisma and Obama’s cool factor, today’s Democrats are increasingly defined by gender-neutral language guides, internal policing of language, and online cancel mobs — a reality that has turned off many independents and moderates.
Political commentator Tomi Lahren weighed in on the scandal, tweeting, “Ruben Gallego is just saying what most moderate Dems think but are too afraid to admit. Their party’s become the scolding, joyless squad that nobody wants to hang with.”
Even onetime Democrat voter Elon Musk previously wrote:
“They’ve become the party of division and hate… I can no longer support them.”
Podcasting icon Joe Rogan echoed the same shift:
“They had me. I was one of them. But they drove me away.”
Gallego, who flipped a Senate seat in 2024 by appealing to Latino and independent voters, is now walking a tightrope.
Arizona voters have swung increasingly red under President Trump’s renewed border enforcement push and crackdowns on crime. With the state’s demographics shifting rightward, Gallego’s internal struggle mirrors a bigger question facing Democrats nationwide:
What does the modern Left stand for — and who’s it actually trying to attract?
As one GOP strategist put it bluntly:
“If Ruben Gallego thinks Dems have an optics problem, wait until voters start paying attention to their policies.”
Source: Leaked texts confirmed by ABC15 Arizona, social media statements, and direct quotes from Ruben Gallego. For more updates, subscribe to our daily newsletter.
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