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Dems notch easy win in New Mexico special election

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Ally Mutnick
Tue, June 1, 2021, 5:13 PM
 
 

Democrat Melanie Stansbury claimed a resounding victory Tuesday night in a contested special election for Congress in New Mexico, easing her party’s fears of a closer result that could have portended a brutal midterm next year.

Stansbury, a state representative, led Republican Mark Moores, 63 percent to 33 percent, when The Associated Press called the race in her favor, a little more than an hour after polls closed. While that margin was likely to narrow somewhat as additional votes were tallied, Democrats hailed her comfortable win as a sign that their base enthusiasm has not waned and that the GOP’s doubling down on “defund the police” attacks backfired.

"While Mark Moores and the GOP spent this special election doing their best Trump impression, Melanie focused on building our country back better, getting folks back to work, and creating an economy for all New Mexicans," said Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.), the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

The district, which includes Albuquerque and its suburbs, is deep-blue territory. Now-President Joe Biden carried it by 23 points in 2020 and the former incumbent, Democrat Deb Haaland, won it by 16 points before vacating the seat to become Interior secretary.

 

Both candidates were nominated by local party officials at conventions. Moores, a state senator and former football player for the University of New Mexico, trailed Stansbury significantly in fundraising and spent far less on TV ads. And neither party committee — or any affiliated outside groups — spent any serious money in the race, a sign that the seat was unlikely to change hands.

The parties used the district as a way to test their midterm messaging. For Democrats, that meant selling Biden’s recovery packages and a brighter post-pandemic future. But Republicans mostly repeated their 2020 strategy of portraying all Democrats as insufficiently supportive of law enforcement.

Moores' campaign was centered entirely on that message. And while his lopsided loss suggests it didn’t appeal to Democratic-leaning voters in Albuquerque, the GOP hopes it will still be salient in swing districts.

But Democrats now have a template to follow for warding off their attacks. Stansbury responded to the “defund the police” hit by running an ad starring a law enforcement official praising her commitment to public safety funding. She called for a comprehensive approach to criminal justice reform that addresses the underlying causes of crime.

It appears to have worked, even as Moores seized on her initial support of a activist-authored proposal, the BREATHE Act, to paint her as radical and Stansbury never seemed to offer a clear answer on the trail of if she supported some of the more extreme policy prescriptions in the act that called for disbanding ICE and Border Patrol.

The large win by Stansbury is a sign of relief to Democrats who have been facing uncomfortable questions about their base enthusiasm after they were shut out of a runoff in a congressional race in Texas last month. In that race, two Republicans advanced to a runoff later this summer, despite some promising signs that Democrats could compete in the fast-changing Fort Worth suburbs.

Now party recruiters and strategists have a win on which to lean as they turn toward recruiting for 2022. And an encouraging proof point that Democratic voters remain motivated even with Trump out of office.

In an election-night victory speech, Stansbury hailed the win as an endorsement of united Democratic government

"Leaders all across the country have been watching this race because of the leadership of Secretary Haaland, because of the importance to this race for delivering for President Biden's agenda," she said.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be eagerly awaiting Stansbury’s swearing in, after which she will have four votes to spare as she tries to hold together her thin majority on major votes throughout the summer. There will be 220 Democrats and 211 Republicans in the House, with four vacancies still outstanding.

And Stansbury, who describes herself as a pragmatic progressive, will be joining the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Her win also pads their margins, though she wasn’t explicitly endorsed by some key progressive organizations, such as the Justice Democrats, who waded into an earlier special election in Louisiana.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dems-hold-mexico-house-seat-211332349.html

 

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2 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

That seems to be a Republican controlled state problem.  

 

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2018 Bloomberg pretty much bought the entire Virginia midterm elections.....as usual....follow the money....

 

From May 1 to May 19, [Stansbury] aired $194,000 worth of TV ads to Moores’s $18,000. And overall, for the entire year and counting all campaign spending (not just TV ads), Stansbury outspent Moores $875,000 to $470,000 as of May 12. She also had more than four times as much cash on hand ($525,000 to $126,000) ready to deploy for the final stretch.

 

You can buy elections......and you can steal elections......just how life works.....

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Republicans Say Election Fraud Theories Made GOP Voters Stay Home In New Mexico Special Election

 
 
Paul Blumenthal
Paul Blumenthal
·Reporter, HuffPost
Thu, June 3, 2021, 5:14 PM
 
 

The Republican Party of New Mexico blamed GOP congressional candidate Mark Moores’ loss in a Tuesday special election on “low voter turnout” sparked by “angry” Republican voters who “questioned election integrity,” in an email sent on Thursday.

If that were true, the party would only have themselves to blame.

After the 2020 election, the state GOP echoed former President Donald Trump’s lies about widespread voter fraud after the election. State party leaders also claimed that Trump lost New Mexico by nearly 11% solely due to fraud. (There was no widespread voter fraud in New Mexico or any other state.)

They claimed, incorrectly, that votes appeared out of nowhere and that Republican observers were not allowed to watch post-election canvasses. Neither of these were true. The party sued to invalidate the state’s results after state electors voted for Biden, the winner of the state’s popular vote, on Dec. 14. The lawsuit was dismissed.

Even after the Trump-inspired riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the party endorsed legislation introduced by a state GOP legislator to disenfranchise the 500,000-plus New Mexicans who voted for President Joe Biden and award the state to Trump. Since the New Mexico legislature and governor’s mansion are controlled by Democrats, the bill went nowhere.

The party remains under the control of proponents of the stolen election myth that propelled the riot and continues to justify the GOP’s swing against democracy.

“Our democracy has been tarnished,” New Mexico GOP chair Steve Pearce, a former congressman, said after the Jan. 6 attack, by “anomalies and issues that were never addressed.”

Moores lost the special election to fill the seat vacated by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to Democrat Melanie Stansbury by a nearly 25-point margin. The voter turnout was less than half of the 2020 general election. But significantly lower turnout is normal for a special election.

The voter turnout drop-off for Republicans was more pronounced than the drop-off for Democrats. Stansbury received 42% of the vote total that Haaland received in 2020, while Moores got 34% of the votes of 2020 GOP candidate Michelle Garcia Holmes.

There is, however, no direct evidence that Republicans stayed home because they believed that the election would be stolen and their votes wouldn’t count.

Perhaps the best explanation for the Republicans’ loss is that their candidates lost this seat by double-digits in five straight elections as the district swung further toward Democrats. Also, the national Democratic Party sent resources and high profile surrogates to help Stansbury win while the national Republican Party stayed out of the race entirely.

But the stolen election myth offers a better salve. Those who “stole the election” also stole the will of Republican voters. The blame for losing this election then lies at the feet of the mythical election thieves and not the underfunded candidate running in a district tilting heavily against their party. The party is absolved of all responsibility.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/new-mexico-gop-election-integrity-211435757.html

 

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12 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:
HuffPost

Republicans Say Election Fraud Theories Made GOP Voters Stay Home In New Mexico Special Election

 
 
Paul Blumenthal
Paul Blumenthal
·Reporter, HuffPost
Thu, June 3, 2021, 5:14 PM
 
 

The Republican Party of New Mexico blamed GOP congressional candidate Mark Moores’ loss in a Tuesday special election on “low voter turnout” sparked by “angry” Republican voters who “questioned election integrity,” in an email sent on Thursday.

If that were true, the party would only have themselves to blame.

After the 2020 election, the state GOP echoed former President Donald Trump’s lies about widespread voter fraud after the election. State party leaders also claimed that Trump lost New Mexico by nearly 11% solely due to fraud. (There was no widespread voter fraud in New Mexico or any other state.)

They claimed, incorrectly, that votes appeared out of nowhere and that Republican observers were not allowed to watch post-election canvasses. Neither of these were true. The party sued to invalidate the state’s results after state electors voted for Biden, the winner of the state’s popular vote, on Dec. 14. The lawsuit was dismissed.

Even after the Trump-inspired riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the party endorsed legislation introduced by a state GOP legislator to disenfranchise the 500,000-plus New Mexicans who voted for President Joe Biden and award the state to Trump. Since the New Mexico legislature and governor’s mansion are controlled by Democrats, the bill went nowhere.

The party remains under the control of proponents of the stolen election myth that propelled the riot and continues to justify the GOP’s swing against democracy.

“Our democracy has been tarnished,” New Mexico GOP chair Steve Pearce, a former congressman, said after the Jan. 6 attack, by “anomalies and issues that were never addressed.”

Moores lost the special election to fill the seat vacated by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to Democrat Melanie Stansbury by a nearly 25-point margin. The voter turnout was less than half of the 2020 general election. But significantly lower turnout is normal for a special election.

The voter turnout drop-off for Republicans was more pronounced than the drop-off for Democrats. Stansbury received 42% of the vote total that Haaland received in 2020, while Moores got 34% of the votes of 2020 GOP candidate Michelle Garcia Holmes.

There is, however, no direct evidence that Republicans stayed home because they believed that the election would be stolen and their votes wouldn’t count.

Perhaps the best explanation for the Republicans’ loss is that their candidates lost this seat by double-digits in five straight elections as the district swung further toward Democrats. Also, the national Democratic Party sent resources and high profile surrogates to help Stansbury win while the national Republican Party stayed out of the race entirely.

But the stolen election myth offers a better salve. Those who “stole the election” also stole the will of Republican voters. The blame for losing this election then lies at the feet of the mythical election thieves and not the underfunded candidate running in a district tilting heavily against their party. The party is absolved of all responsibility.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/new-mexico-gop-election-integrity-211435757.html

 

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The "stolen election myth"is the narrative that is repeated over and over and over, the liberals tend to take the word of this narrative as truth, rather than let the audit play out to prove one of the party is correct. I would like the audit to prove to the people that in this election, if fraud or no fraud was involved so we can determine future election security. That's it, simple. I'm perplex by the push back. We the PEOPLE have that right.

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On 6/2/2021 at 12:47 PM, Shabibilicious said:

 

That seems to be a Republican controlled state problem.  

 

GO RV, then BV

Naturally, election manipulation isn't needed in a state where the voting majority is a bunch of poor Indians who require government assistance just to survive. But, hey, you go ahead and be proud of that. 

 

 

18 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

That a way.....he really loves it when folks mention him, as the greatest, that is.  :lol:

 

GO RV, then BV

Then he must surely Worship you. :lol:

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On 6/4/2021 at 1:50 PM, patrickgold said:

The "stolen election myth"is the narrative that is repeated over and over and over, the liberals tend to take the word of this narrative as truth, rather than let the audit play out to prove one of the party is correct. I would like the audit to prove to the people that in this election, if fraud or no fraud was involved so we can determine future election security. That's it, simple. I'm perplex by the push back. We the PEOPLE have that right.

 

Do you honestly believe if this audit proves no rampant election fraud existed, that DJT will accept those results, concede defeat, and tout Cyber Ninjas as a world class company with top notch employees, winners one and all?  Honest question. 

 

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In deed its an honest question, to answer it may not satisfy you. I think they'll find fraud, its the other party who will not concede, they'll do everything in their power to continue refuting it.  The evidence is there, but your resources will not expose the fraud. They'll twist the evidence. They'll make up laws against the constitution, just as the legislation did and look what they ended up with, a big mess and people are waking up to there tactic 

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8 hours ago, patrickgold said:

In deed its an honest question, to answer it may not satisfy you. I think they'll find fraud, its the other party who will not concede, they'll do everything in their power to continue refuting it.  The evidence is there, but your resources will not expose the fraud. They'll twist the evidence. They'll make up laws against the constitution, just as the legislation did and look what they ended up with, a big mess and people are waking up to there tactic 

 

Thank you for at least responding.....I was indeed hoping for a direct answer to the question, as opposed to deflection....but, as you and I both know, deflection has become an everyday part of life, a part of which, I am also adept at, not denying it.

 

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16 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

Thank you for at least responding.....I was indeed hoping for a direct answer to the question, as opposed to deflection....but, as you and I both know, deflection has become an everyday part of life, a part of which, I am also adept at, not denying it.

 

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You got my direct answer, no deflection on my part.  I truly believe that fraud occurred, so your question was not a realistic question compared to what is happening.  Shabs so much evidence is right in front of you, just open your eyes, don't depend on the news networks,  you'll get bias information with a lot of misinformation.

 

 

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7 hours ago, patrickgold said:

You got my direct answer, no deflection on my part.  I truly believe that fraud occurred, so your question was not a realistic question compared to what is happening.  Shabs so much evidence is right in front of you, just open your eyes, don't depend on the news networks,  you'll get bias information with a lot of misinformation.

 

I'm going to defer to the conservative heavy courts system on election fraud.....When people search for sources looking to satisfy a certain narrative, their information flow is automatically flawed.  As always, just my opinion.  

 

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