New Mexico chooses status quo in 2024 election

The 2024 election was extremely good for Republicans and those concerned about the way our country had been managed over the last four years. With Trump appearing to win more than 300 electoral votes (and the popular vote) and the GOP picking up a number of Senate seats, New Mexico would be poised to see some big moves away from its status as a deep blue outpost in the American Southwest.

It was not to be. New Mexico went for Harris, Martin Heinrich and Gabe Vasquez retained their seats comfortably, and even the Legislature was largely unchanged in its partisan makeup. The fact that the Legislature (despite all 112 seats being up) did not shift on Election Day means that it has shifted even further to the left thanks to results from Democrat primaries back in June.

What does this all mean? MLG is staying put in New Mexico to finish out her term (no appointment in the Harris Administration);

Martin Heinrich (who won his Senate seat) is widely rumored to be planning a run for Gov. in two years.

More importantly, New Mexico moves further down the path to California-style deep “blue” status that will elect Democrats regardless of what happens nationwide. Mandatory paid leave, gun control, and all manner of far-left economic policies will likely be in the offing as the Gov. and Legislature likely agree to end their fight over crime and instead focus on growing government and handing subsidies out to their political friends.

With New Mexico having a once-in-history economic opportunity thanks to a booming oil and gas industry, a failing education system, high crime, and deteriorating infrastructure, former territorial governor of New Mexico Lew Wallace’s famous quote about New Mexico rings truer than ever.