Rio Rancho is a hard repub enclave suburb neighbor of revolutionary socialist Albuquerque. It was never going Democrat. Rio Rancho is the place people flee to if you live in the Santa Fe/Albuquerque area so you can have a good police department, affordable houses, low crime etc.
The old mayor is running for Governor and may he win! But RR is not a bellwether that New Mexico is about to swing Repub. It isn’t going to happen. They are as bad as California. It’s a one party state where Repubs lost every statewide election last time. The Gov is a Rat, the entire congressional delegation is Rat, the State supreme court is Rat. Both houses of the Legislature are near supermajorities, and fully majority female.
And not just female, but young virulent ones with educations at Stanford, Yale, Brown, William and Mary, and other libtard schools. They are developed, trained and funded by national RAT programs and come back to NM to push the national agenda. Gun control was essentially unknown in NM and now every session they take another bite at the apple, they just passed free college and unlimited free day care for every kid in the state (takes little imagination to know how that goes).
They are tearing down power plants, fully behind homosexuality, abortion, and were brutal during covid.
Be happy for this win so the Rio Rancho enclave can persevere, but take it for what it is.
Other threads and info indicate Hispanics are continuing to move away from the rabid Democrats. There are many in New Mexico and I feel that, sans voting fraud, the political landscape in greater New Mexico would look quite different today.