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Democratic Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury held up a sign directly next to President Trump that read 'this is NOT Normal' as he entered the House chamber. The president was making his way through the crowd ahead of his address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night when he came directly face-to-face with the New Mexico lawmaker. The sign appeared to be handwritten in black in on a piece of white paper. The president appeared to look directly at it. He then rolled his eyes before turning away and continuing to greet Republican lawmakers on the opposite side of the...

Melanie Stansbury, a Democrat, won a landslide victory in a special House election in New Mexico on Tuesday, claiming the seat previously held by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and easily turning back a Republican effort to make the race a referendum on rising crime in the Albuquerque-based district.

The link provides updated election results every 5 minutes. This is the only slated special election for a House seat between now and 2022.Feel free to jump in and discuss.

Nancy Pelosi’s majority in the House of Representatives continues to shrink. The recent swearing-in of Republican Julia Letlow of Louisiana has taken the House Democrats’ majority down to 218–212. This means that Pelosi has a mere three-vote governing majority with which to push the Biden administration’s big-government agenda. The GOP will soon have another chance to reduce Pelosi’s margin for error when voters in New Mexico’s first congressional district (which includes Albuquerque and its environs) go to the polls to elect a replacement for Biden’s newly minted secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, a Democrat. *** *** The candidates to...