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New Mexico’s New Congressional Map Is Bad News For Its Lone Republican

A congressional map signed into law Friday by Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham could spell doom for Republican Rep. Yvette Herrell.

Herrell’s southern Second District swings from a seat Donald Trump won by twelve points in 2020 to one that Joe Biden won by six. It adds part of Democratic-leaning Albuquerque to Herrell’s district, while moving southeastern parts of the state into Democrat Teresa Leger Fernandez’s Third District.

“The gerrymandered map New Mexico Democrats have proposed shows how desperate they are to try to save Nancy Pelosi’s majority,” Herrell said in a statement to the Albuquerque Journal. “I look forward to running and winning in 2022 and providing New Mexico voters the conservative representation they deserve.”

The New Mexico legislature passed the map almost entirely along party lines, with all Republicans in the House opposing and all but one Democrat supporting the map. No Republicans in the state Senate supported the new map.

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