Explicitly stayed out
“responder a cada persona que dice algo ofensivo realmente es algo que no me interesa hacer, nunca he hecho.”
Díaz-Balart declined to address Loomer's remarks and redirected discussion to Nixon.
- Speaker
- Mario Díaz-Balart
- Capacity
- United States representative from Florida
- Observed
- September 9, 2026
- Published here
- September 9, 2026
- Targets
- Laura Loomer
- Classification rationale
- His express refusal to engage supports this classification; it does not establish endorsement.
Surrounding material
Full context
Before the quotation
Calderón asked whether Trump and Republicans should condemn Loomer's attacks.
After the quotation
He contrasted an internet speaker with a Senate candidate, then criticized Nixon.
Evidence
Complete source record
Mario Díaz-Balart interview on Laura Loomer — Esta Semana (opens in a new tab)00:53.660–01:03.300; follow-up question and response 01:30.420–02:29.940
Broadcaster-hosted interview. Exact Spanish wording checked against the linked official caption file. N+ version runs 2:45; Univision lists 2:55, so timestamps refer to N+.
N+ official Spanish captions — Mario Díaz-Balart interview (opens in a new tab)Caption cues 12–13, 00:53.660–01:03.300
Official timed Spanish captions linked by the broadcaster's video page. The extracted quotation preserves the caption wording, with sentence punctuation normalized. This is caption verification, not an independently produced verbatim audio transcript.