Xochitl Torres-Small: A Compulsive Liar On The Second Amendment

Above, a snapshot from Torres-Small's 2018 campaign ad.

It has been said of Democrats that if they honestly ran on their policy positions they'd never get elected.

Such was the case of Rep. Xochitl Torres-Small of New Mexico. She ran as a pro-Second Amendment Democrat in 2018, but her actions since that election were the exact opposite.

To put it bluntly, she lied to get elected.

From Bearing Arms:

Rep. Xochitl Torres Small is a first-term congresswoman representing New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional district; a sprawling and typically conservative portion of the state that hadn’t sent a Democrat to Congress in years before Torres Small scored an upset in the 2018 blue wave. Back then Torres Small presented herself as a supporter of the Second Amendment, even cutting an ad featuring her firing a shotgun while pretending to hunt. 

CBS News covered the ad upon its release, calling it a signal “to the conservative district she hopes to represent that she’s not the kind of Democrat who wants to take away its guns.” 

After she narrowly won election, however, Torres Small quickly embraced the Democrats’ gun control agenda, voting in favor of universal background checks while still presenting herself as a “gun owner and hunter” in interactions with residents. The Las Cruces Sun-News highlighted one exchange back in 2019. 

Well, here’s one question a gun owner would ask: why on earth would anyone claiming to be a Second Amendment supporter hire a veteran of Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety to be her campaign manager?

From the Columbia Basin Herald:

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — A new campaign manager for Democratic U.S. Rep. Xochitl Torres Small is facing attacks from Republicans for once working for a gun control group funded by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. 

The Las Cruces Democrat recently announced that she had hired Emma Caccamo to win reelection in what is expected to be a close race in southern New Mexico’s swing district. Caccamo is the former campaign manager for Democratic U.S. House hopeful Teresa Leger Fernandez in northern New Mexico. 

Before working for Leger Fernandez, Caccamo served as deputy political director for Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonpartisan advocacy group that pushes for gun control and against gun violence. But some conservatives see the group and any proposed gun control measures as an attack on gun rights.

Everytown for Gun Safety is hardly a "nonpartisan" advocacy group. Their prime benefactor Michael Bloomberg backs radical leftists in local state campaigns.

Torres-Small presents a nice facade, but she'll lie to you in your face. Just ask Robert Scott Windhorst.