Women are seeking the Democratic and Republican nominations in all six of the state’s primary races for three congressional seats.
RIO RANCHO, N.M. — New Mexico voters have a chance this year to send a historic all-female U.S. House delegation to Congress, no matter which party wins races. In each of those races, at least one Latina or one Native American woman is running in her respective party’s primary contests in what has turned out to be some of the most diverse political battles in the county. The women candidates have been among the largest fundraisers in races and could be their party’s nominees.
In New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional Democratic primary, for example, Yale University graduate and Stanford University-trained lawyer Teresa Leger Fernandez and former CIA operative Valerie Plame are among those running in a crowded field to represent the state’s northern region. Both are indicative of the area’s traditional Hispanic past and recent coastal liberal transplants .
They are seeking to unseat Democratic Rep. Xochitl Torres Small, the granddaughter of Mexican immigrants and who grew up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Retired University of New Mexico political science professor Christine Marie Sierra, who has followed women in politics for years, said this moment has been building for decades in New Mexico.
That surpasses even the record-breaking 2018 midterm election, in which 476 women filed to run for House seats, the center found.Much of the surge in candidate filings is in Republican primaries across the country, the center said.
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