Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) sparred with conservative personality Laura Loomer on X Wednesday, exchanging insults with Loomer over whether he is exiting Congress to run for Mayor of Miami.

Loomer says Gimenez is “pissed” he lost his bid to become the Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee. He would lose out to Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) after launching his bid earlier this month.

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Gimenez snapped back at Loomer.

“Once again, Loomer doesn’t have the faintest idea of what she’s talking about,” he said.

The Florida Republican claimed Loomer doesn’t like that Gimenez supports Venezuelans.

“She doesn’t like that I stand with the Venezuelan people in their fight for freedom. Instead, she would rather funnel millions into the pockets of the leaders of the Cartel de los Soles, a criminal narco-terrorist regime headed by none other than Nicolas Maduro and an officially designated global terrorist organization by President Trump,” he added.

Loomer continued the discourse, accusing him of being an “America Last RINO Congressman” and being a “member of the Congressional Cuban Mafia.” She said she doesn’t “support gangs” but supports the United States beating the Chinese Communist Party in access to oil in Venezuela

She’s attacked Gimenez and other Miami Republicans for opposing Maduro’s Venezuelan regime in the past in favor of importing oil from the region. “If this is true,” she wrote in a May X post of Gimenez and other Republicans opposing oil licenses for Chevron, “it will prove that the bias of these reps … because they would rather have a Hispanic tit for tat over Maduro instead of safeguarding energy resources from going to the CCP.”

Then the Miami Republican said Loomer’s English “isn’t her strong suit.”

“My first point was simple: you have no idea what you’re talking about, and you just keep proving it. Also, real Republicans don’t support criminal terrorist organizations. I’ve been a Republican longer than you’ve been alive,” he said in response to her.

She then accused him of running his son in his congressional seat while he runs for mayor of Miami, and declared that “Congress and Miami City Hall are no place for a Telenovela, Carlos!”

The congressman replied, “I guess you’re trying to write your own telenovela, but just so you know, telenovelas are fiction.”

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Gimenez, if he ever decides to, will not run for Miami mayor this year because the city’s commission pushed its mayoral election to 2026. Gimenez has been floated as a candidate, but hasn’t declared any intention to run. Incumbent mayor Francis Suarez, a Republican, is term-limited.

Xavier Suarez, Francis’ father and the city’s 35th and 39th mayor, is running again to take his son’s seat atop the city. One of his top Democratic competitors, if he makes it out of the Republican primary, is Democratic Miami-Dade County commissioner Eileen Higgins.