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SANTA FE — Donald Trump’s rambling and incoherent speech during his Oct. 31 rally clearly showed why New Mexicans have rejected his candidacy twice, and why we’re going to do it again on Nov. 5. While visiting the most Hispanic state in America, Trump continued to lob slurs at Hispanics and defend his rally calling our Puerto Rican brothers and sisters ‘garbage.’

The former president trashed the Affordable Care Act, and made it clear that his only ‘concept of a plan’ is to kick 324,000 New Mexicans off of their health coverage and jack up rates on 843,000 New Mexicans with pre-existing conditions. New Mexicans are rejecting Donald Trump’s anger, division, lies and...

ALBUQUERQUE — A Washington D.C. federal appeals court upheld the conviction of Couy Griffin for his participation in the Jan. 6, 2020, attack on the U.S. Capitol on Oct.22. Griffin is a disgraced former Otero County Commissioner, founder of the Cowboys for Trump mob of extremists, and a close political ally of Yvette Herrell who has a long record of espousing far-right conspiracy theories and election denial after Trump lost in 2020.

As prominent figures in the New Mexico GOP, Griffin and Herrell have been steadfast political allies and share many of the same far-right views. Herrell claimed that the Cowboys for Trump founder’s endorsement was one she was "most proud of.”  One...

ALBUQUERQUE — A week from Election Day, Democratic turnout is outpacing Republicans’ by an increasingly significant margin as early voting progresses. At this point, Democrats make up the majority of all voter turnout in New Mexico’s general election with 34% more votes cast than Republicans.

As of Oct. 21, the majority of votes cast in New Mexico’s general election were from Democrats, with just under 100,000 votes. Republicans had only cast just under 70,000 votes and Declined to State voters have cast 25,000 votes.

Democrats have built on their lead as voting surged on the first day of expanded early voting. Democrats’ advantage is most pronounced in absentee voting...

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