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Trump Shocks the World
President Barack Obama has invited Donald Trump to the White House after the Republican shocked the world with
Tuesday night. If you went to bed early,
with Trump's victory speech.
Hillary Clinton supporters are
on FBI Director James Comey this morning.
Libertarian Party nominee
and a little more than 8 percent in New Mexico. The impact of all the third party candidates still isn’t clear.
All three of New Mexico's congressional incumbents, Steve Pearce, Michelle Lujan Grisham and Ben Ray Lujan,
.
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New Mexico Democrats
and kept control of the state Senate. Still, longtime Senate leader
, a political newcomer, and won’t return to the Roundhouse in January.
KRQE reports, “Now that Democrats have the majority in both the State House and Senate, it may seem like the possibility of passing new policy is promising, but
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“The governor’s going to still have veto power and she’s going to use it very effectively, so I don’t expect there to be major shift or change. In fact, you’re just going to have more of the same, a lot of gridlock and not a lot of policy that’s going to happen,” explained KRQE News 13 political analyst and professor Gabe Sanchez.
Justice Judith Nakamura will
after narrowly defeating Michael Vigil.
Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver
as New Mexico Secretary of State on Jan. 1.
SFR reports that Marco Serna, a Democrat who rose to prominence championing diversion programs for addicts, will be the
for Santa Fe, Los Alamos and Rio Arriba counties. In Doña Ana County, Mark D’Antonio
after defeating Republican challenger Brad Cates.
Voters approved a constitutional amendment to allow judges
to the most dangerous defendants.
Until now, the state constitution guaranteed people the opportunity to get out of jail before trial, with the narrow exception of those accused of the most serious felonies. Critics said the system routinely allowed violent defendants out on the streets.
Voters legalized marijuana for
in California, Nevada and Massachusetts, and for
. In Colorado, voters
that will allow physicians to assist a terminally ill person in dying, but defeated a first-in-the-nation universal health care measure.
Santa Fe Reporter