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Note: This is an edition of the NM Political Report Elections Roundup, which comes out twice a month on Tuesdays (and will increase to ever week when elections near) as an email newsletter. Sign up to get the newsletter here. Quick hits

This week, U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján announced he supports impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. See my story on it.U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland announced her support last week.Speaking of Haaland, after endorsing Elizabeth Warren for president, she has been a fairly active surrogate on behalf of the Massachusetts U.S. Senator, especially on Native issues.Andy wrote about how political parties can’t hold raffle fundraisers according to a state agency.It’s not officially a campaign event, but VP Mike Pence will be in Artesia this week.Any links you think I should include in the next edition? Email matthew [at] nmpoliticalreport [dot] com.

2018 elections

NM Elections Roundup: Three weeks to Election Day

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The NM Elections Roundup comes out every Tuesday morning through email. The following is an excerpt from this week’s email. To get the full version each week, including a look at the ads on the air, sign up here. The Associated Press reported that Republican candidate Steve Pearce invested millions of dollars in companies that lease equipment for oil and gas exploration. One of those companies, Trinity Industries, was previously described as renting party equipment.

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NM Elections Roundup: Campaign cash and ‘bull___t’

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The NM Elections Roundup comes out every Tuesday morning through email. The following is an excerpt from this week’s email. To get the full version each week, including a look at the ads on the air, sign up here. Michelle Lujan Grisham once again outraised and outspent Steve Pearce in the race for governor. But Pearce has more cash on hand for the final for weeks of the campaign, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.

Elections Roundup

NM Elections Roundup: Youngblood convicted, Gary Johnson updates and more

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The NM Elections Roundup comes out every Tuesday morning through email. The following is an excerpt from this week’s email. To get the full version each week, including a look at the ads on the air, sign up here. It’s just five weeks until Election Day, and campaigns are entering their final stretch.State Rep. Monica Youngblood was convicted of one count of aggravated DWI last week. The bench trial took place exactly six weeks before Election Day.

2018 elections

NM Elections Roundup: Two debates, while focus is on 2nd CD

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Every Tuesday, NM Political Report sends out an elections roundup email. Here’s a portion of this week’s email. To sign up for the full version, sign up here. It’s almost October, which means the election is just around the corner. Which means you’re seeing a lot of TV ads featuring smiling candidates.

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NM Elections Roundup: Polls, ad wars and straight-ticket voting goes down

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Every Tuesday, NM Political Report sends out an elections roundup email. Here’s a portion of this week’s email. To sign up for the full version, sign up here. The Albuquerque Journal released its first round of polling on some big races. The short story: Democratic incumbent Martin Heinrich leads by a lot in the U.S. Senate race (Gary Johnson is in third), while Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham leads Republican Steve Pearce by 7 percentage points in the race for governor.

2018 elections

NM Elections Roundup: Straight-ticket voting, campaign finance reports and more…

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Every week from now until the Nov. 6 election, we’ll recap the big election stories each week. The full version of this recap comes out every Tuesday morning—if you aren’t signed up yet, you can do so here. On to the recap! Straight-ticket party voting is a major campaign issue, since Democratic Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver announced late last month that she would put the option back on ballots for 2018.

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NM Elections Roundup: Fundraising emails slowing down

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The flood of campaign emails is over, and will recede into its normal trickle of one or two a day instead of three or four from every campaign every day. That’s because the deadline for federal races for the first quarter of the year was March 31. Those financial numbers will be available on April 15. The deadline for statewide, legislative and a host of other races was April 2. Those numbers are due on the state website on April 9.

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NM Elections Roundup: Two GOP House members say no to reelection and more elections news…

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There was some big news in the land of elections over the last week here in New Mexico. The biggest news was probably two Republican member sof the House who decided not to run for another term: House Minority Leader Nate Gentry and Sarah Maestas Barnes. Both are from Albuquerque. They are also both in districts that increasingly lean towards Democrats and would have been tough for Republicans to hold even with the incumbency advantage. You can see more analysis of these and other legislative seats here.

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Elections roundup: Rio Rancho, Santa Fe and more go the polls

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Starting this week, I’ll be writing a weekly election recap to keep you updated through the primary in June. If you have any tips, email to matthew@nmpoliticalreport.com. Want to get the full version for free each Tuesday morning? Sign up here

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