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Supporters gather ahead of New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's first major campaign rally as the Democrat seeks reelection in Albuquerque, on Thursday, June 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
Noisy protest disrupts governor's 1st reelection rally

By Susan Montoya Bryan And Morgan Lee Jun. 03, 2021 04:57 PM EDT

FILE - In this June 11, 2019, file photo, store manager Ruby Amsden, left, attends to medical marijuana customer and retired nurse Jan Stewart, who uses cannabis to relieve pain associated with her recovery from bone cancer and help with sleeping, at the Minerva medical cannabis dispensary in Santa Fe, N.M. Legislation to legalize cannabis in New Mexico advanced Thursday, March 18, 2021, toward a decisive Senate floor vote under a framework that emphasizes government oversight of pricing and supplies and social services for communities where the criminalization of pot led to aggressive policing. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)
Democrats rally behind recreational pot bill in New Mexico

By Morgan Lee Mar. 19, 2021 03:30 PM EDT

FILE - In this June 11, 2019, file photo, store manager Ruby Amsden, left, attends to medical marijuana customer and retired nurse Jan Stewart, who uses cannabis to relieve pain associated with her recovery from bone cancer and help with sleeping, at the Minerva medical cannabis dispensary in Santa Fe, N.M. Legislation to legalize cannabis in New Mexico advanced Thursday, March 18, 2021, toward a decisive Senate floor vote under a framework that emphasizes government oversight of pricing and supplies and social services for communities where the criminalization of pot led to aggressive policing. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)
New Mexico pot legalization bill advances as time runs short

By Morgan Lee Mar. 18, 2021 09:54 PM EDT

Supporters of President Donald Trump campaign at a busy intersection in Cranberry Township, Pa., during rush hour on Friday, Oct. 16, 2020. To win Pennsylvania, Trump needs blowout victories and historic turnout across the state in conservative strongholds like this one north of Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
'We need you': GOP hunts for new voters in Trump territory

By Josh Boak Oct. 28, 2020 12:25 AM EDT

Cows graze in a pasture in Sarver, Pa., in Butler County, on Oct. 15, 2020. Al Lindsay, who leads the Butler County Republicans, says the push to register voters has been made easier by frustrations over pandemic lockdowns and a growing belief that Democrats don't understand people who are religious and rural. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
'We need you': GOP hunts for new voters in Trump territory

By Josh Boak Oct. 28, 2020 12:24 AM EDT

This Friday, Oct. 16, 2020, image provided Amanda Jaronowski shows her in Cleveland, Ohio. The lifelong Republican who lives in the suburbs of Cleveland supports the president's policies and fears her business could be gutted if Democrat Joe Biden wins in November. But she abhors Donald Trump personally, leaving her on the fence. (Joy Lewis Photography via AP)
Policy vs. personality: Undecideds torn as election nears

By Jill Colvin And Aamer Madhani Oct. 18, 2020 01:19 PM EDT

FILE - In this Friday, June 5, 2020, file photo, Republican congressional candidate Alexis Johnson awaits final results in New Mexico's primary election outside a public works building where local election officials tallied absentee votes in Santa Fe, N.M. Johnson of Santa Fe has won the Republican primary nomination in New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District. Johnson emerged victorious Saturday in the three-way primary amid a surge in absentee balloting that took several days to tally in the district's most populous county. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)
Northern New Mexico district to pick its 1st congresswoman

By Morgan Lee Oct. 08, 2020 08:32 PM EDT

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2006, photo, KRQE-TV meteorologist Mark Ronchetti prepares the weathercast at the KRQE studios in Albuquerque, N.M. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., is vastly outspending well-known Republican former television meteorologist Ronchetti, a first-time political candidate with a tough-on-crime message, in the race to succeed retiring Sen. Tom Udall. (Jaelyn deMaria/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)
Senate race pits political scion against TV-savvy Republican

By Morgan Lee Oct. 02, 2020 03:47 PM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2020, file photo from left, Democratic presidential candidates, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., former Vice President Joe Biden, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., participate in a Democratic presidential primary debate in Charleston, S.C. Calls for pragmatic centrism helped Joe Biden clinch the Democratic presidential nomination. But they left many of the party’s strongest liberals worried that little progress would be made toward their sweeping goals. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Biden aims to move left without abandoning centrist roots

By Will Weissert And Bill Barrow May. 25, 2020 12:15 AM EDT

FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2019, file photo Rep. Justin Amash, I-Cascade Township, holds a constituent meeting at Rising Grinds Cafe, in Grand Rapids, Mich. The first major third-party candidate is emerging in the contest between President Donald Trump and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Amash wants to seek the White House as a Libertarian after switching from Republican to independent last July 4 and voting in favor of Trump’s impeachment. (Cory Morse/The Grand Rapids Press via AP, File)/The Grand Rapids Press via AP)
Spoiler? Amash's 3rd-party presidential bid raises concerns

By Will Weissert Apr. 30, 2020 12:10 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 10, 2020, file photo, a pedestrian is reflected with a temporary closed sign in the window of a wax museum where a statue of Pope Francis is on display in San Antonio. For libertarians the very thought of massive government aid or the enforced closings of businesses is usually indefensible. But those beliefs can change in a time of crisis, like now. The spread of the coronavirus has renewed a long-running debate among libertarians over such core beliefs as private enterprise and individual autonomy. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Libertarians debate: How to respond to coronavirus pandemic?

By Hillel Italie Apr. 11, 2020 03:02 AM EDT