.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
Melanie Stansbury, left, hugs her mother Sunny Birklund as results come in for New Mexico 1st Congressional District special election to replace former U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland. Haaland resigned her seat after being nominated United States Secretary of the Interior. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)
Democrats continued their dozen-year winning streak in the 1st Congressional District, with state Rep. Melanie Stansbury prevailing in Tuesday’s special election for the post.
Journal pollster Brian Sanderoff called the race for Stansbury after early returns showed she had built an insurmountable lead over state Sen. Mark Moores, an Albuquerque Republican. Stansbury was beating Moores by a 2-to-1 margin, according to early, unofficial results posted on the Secretary of State’s website shortly after polls closed. Stansbury had 64% of the vote.
WASHINGTON — Democrats avoided a potentially embarrassing upset in New Mexico on Tuesday with state Rep. Melanie Stansbury’s victory over Republican state Sen. Mark Moores in the special election for
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris will have all her staff with her on the White House grounds for the first time since she took office beginning in July.