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The president once boasted of New Mexico "Hispanics love me!" And for a time he did quite well with that critical voting block. Today? Not so much.The respectable six point Trump loss in Blue New Mexico in '24 is starting to seem like a distant memory. Polling today shows that Hispanic voters who were largely responsible for bringing Trump's numbers up here are now headed in the...

The least Trumpy of the three GOP governor candidates is not shy about cozying up to the president and his pals as the campaign enters its final frantic weeks and still with no clear front-runner.ABQ businessman Doug Turner, a longtime moderate, raised Republican eyebrows with his response when he was asked if he was a MAGA Republican. He replied that he is more of "an independe...

It was only a brief sugar rush for Sam Bregman. Deb Haaland's weaker than expected performance in the Emerson College-KRQE poll released last week was quickly washed away when the ABQ Journal survey was released Sunday and showed her not only above the 40 percent support of Democratic primary voters Emerson had her at, but at 52 percent--above the magic 50 percent...

Deb Haaland has work to do and state Republicans have some major deciding to do. Those are the messages from the first public polling of the '26 gubernatorial primary races released Wednesday.The April 18-19 survey conducted by Emerson College for KRQE-TV gave a jolt to the political community showing Haaland beating Sam Bregman 40.4% to 23.9% with a large 35.7 percent...

Sam Bregman got a shot of momentum when the campaign of Deb Haaland stumbled after posting information about the locations of four homes owned by the BernCo District Attorney. Now he's trying to keep it going with his harshest attack yet on the front-runner for the '26 Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Bregman's new TV ad throws the proverbial kitchen sink...