ICYMI: FOX NEWS: Vasquez ripped for ‘phony’ working-class narrative

This morning Fox News EXPOSED Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) for pretending to grow up poor.

Gabe tells voters he “never had the luxury of financial wealth,” pointing to his mother working long hours in a factory to make ends meet.

But Gabe has never been poor. He even threw himself a fake wedding for $90,000!

Gabe’s mother held corporate finance roles at GE and enjoys luxury trips to France, complete with luxury shopping trips and fancy cars.

Let them eat cake!

Read more below.

Luxury travel, shopping, six-figure income: Battleground Dems ripped for ‘phony’ working-class narrative
By Alec Schemmel
Fox News
August 20, 2026

Several battleground Democrats running in competitive House races have leaned on working-class, blue-collar biographies to connect with voters’ economic anxieties, but financial records and other materials reviewed by Fox News Digital complicate the images they have presented on the campaign trail.

In New Mexico, Rep. Gabe Vasquez, D-N.M., has said he “never had the luxury of financial wealth,” argued voters are drawn to candidates who do not “come from wealth,” and described his mother as working long hours in Mexico’s “maquiladora industry” to make ends meet. But records reviewed by Fox News Digital show his mother held corporate finance roles at GE, including as a finance manager and comptroller in Mexico and later as a senior finance analyst in Indiana, while social media screenshots shared with Fox News Digital show repeated European travel, luxury shopping and other upscale family photos.

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Vasquez has also repeatedly pointed to his mother’s work in Mexico’s “maquiladora industry” as part of his family’s working-class story…

But Banuelos’ own professional profile and other publicly available records reviewed by Fox News Digital show she held senior finance roles at GE during much of Vasquez’s childhood…

The professional record is also accompanied by social media material showing a more affluent family lifestyle. Posts from Banuelos’ Facebook and Instagram accounts, screenshots of which were shared and reviewed by Fox News Digital, showed repeated European travel, including a three-month stay in France, while other posts showed Banuelos and Vasquez’s sister shopping at luxury brands. Several photos from upscale locations also included Vasquez himself, including one in which he posed with a Corvette.

Read the full article here.

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