“How did formerly solid R N.M. flip to have a State Gov riddled with Leftwing Democrap nutballs?”
When was NM ever solid republican?
I thought it was . In the past
Southern NM was almost always pretty hardcore conservative, and is still, mostly, except Las Cruces, the biggest city in the southern half which turned hard left and got corrupt vote counters in 2018. Heck, even Albuquerque was moderately conservative until Bill Richardson gave illegal aliens a pathway to voting when he was Governor.
Even parts of Northern NM are still pretty conservative.
But, like nearly every state. The larger cities are swinging the statewide vote from fairly conservative to completely insane.