New Mexico Special Election Could Further Reduce Pelosi’s House Majority

Voting begins today in a surprisingly important House race.

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New Mexico Republican State Senator Mark Moores (left) and Democratic State Representative Melanie Stansbury

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Nancy Pelosi’s majority in the House of Representatives continues to shrink. The recent swearing-in of Republican Julia Letlow of Louisiana has taken the House Democrats’ majority down to 218–212. This means that Pelosi has a mere three-vote governing majority with which to push the Biden administration’s big-government agenda.

The GOP will soon have another chance to reduce Pelosi’s margin for error when voters in New Mexico’s first congressional district (which includes Albuquerque and its environs) go to the polls to elect a replacement for Biden’s newly minted secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, a Democrat. Early voting begins today, while Election Day itself is June 1.

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Paul J. Gessing

Paul J. Gessing is the president of the Rio Grande Foundation, a think tank based in Albuquerque, N.M., dedicated to promoting prosperity for New Mexico based on principles of limited government, economic freedom, and individual responsibility.

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