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If you’re reading this, there is exactly zero chance you don’t know what happened on Election Day. To recap, with the interest of brevity in mind: The Democrats retook the U.S. House and Senate, they kept every statewide office in New Mexico \u2014 with a cast of mostly new characters \u2014 and expanded their advantage in the state House to a supermajority. Their proposed changes to the state Constitution are happening, too.\u00a0
In most instances, the margins at the polls were massive.\u00a0
We haven’t made any live TV on Election Night \u2014 or any other night, for that matter \u2014 here at NMPBS in several years. (Though, you may have heard NMiF Host Nash Jones and me doing some live hits on KUNM Tuesday night before the polls closed.) So, what is a show like New Mexico in Focus, where elections are central to our mission, to do given that we air three days after the votin’s done?\u00a0
How about assemble a big group of political experts and local journalists to explain how and why the results came in as they did, then look toward the future at what they’ll mean for New Mexicans in the days, weeks, months and years ahead?\u00a0
I hope you said yes, because that’s exactly what we did.\u00a0
This week’s episode begins with a relatively quick trip through some of the results. To help bring those to life, our crew got out to a bunch of watch parties on Election Night to capture the sights and sounds from some of the winners and losers. Yes, we have a lengthy clip from Democratic Gov.-elect Deb Haaland, who made history Tuesday night when voters overwhelmingly chose her as the nation’s first Native American woman governor.\u00a0
Then the analysis starts.\u00a0
To help us break things down, we leaned on the expertise of folks who will be familiar to NMiF viewers.\u00a0
Our politics pros are, as it happens, both refugees from the two major political parties: PR executive and former Naval officer Merritt Allen, who for 36 years proudly called herself a Republican, then fled the GOP after reading its 2024 platform; and Eric Griego, who served on the Albuquerque City Council and in the state Senate as a Democrat, then left the party a decade ago and now teachers public policy and political science at the University of New Mexico.\u00a0
The journalist team includes one of our own, NMiF Politics Correspondent Gwyneth Doland, plus Source NM’s Joshua Bowling and Shaun Griswold, who covered the elections for High Country News and Buffalo’s Fire.
Nash led these deep dives into the election results, repercussions and recriminations, as always, with poise and precision.\u00a0
Enjoy!\u00a0
-Jeff Proctor, Executive Producer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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