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<div style="text-align:start">We are continuing to receive reports that Steve Pearce is calling around the state trying to gauge how much support he has for yet another run for governor.</div>
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<div style="text-align:start">This was first reported to us by State Senator Joshua A. Sanchez (R-Bosque) in early March. Apparently, Pearce remains clueless regarding his inability—after three tries at statewide office—”to catch on” with New Mexico voters.</div>
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<div style="text-align:start">We are further told that if he doesn't run, then his erstwhile “fundraiser” Mark Murphy of Roswell will take the plunge. This is remarkable, if true, in that Murphy has a record of strongly backing Democrats—from Jeff Bingaman to former State Senator Tim Jennings.</div>
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<div style="text-align:start">We’ll see how Murphy’s political background plays out in a GOP primary against solid conservative Republicans. (And that’s without even considering his record—with Pearce, Billingsley, Galassini Ford Tinnin, and Harvey Yates—in literally destroying the Republican Party of New Mexico in 2016, 2018, and 2020.) Disaster: thy name is Pearce and Murphy.</div>
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<div style="text-align:start">Both these people are non-starters. The GOP already has several highly qualified conservative candidates lining up. There’s just no place for Pearce or Murphy to fit in.
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<div class="blogItemTitle"><h2><a href="Default.aspx?f8c38a75aa484b4dbf205c150d8d029fblogPostId=aa24ae4dd63b4919ae2ec60717abf32b#BlogContent">Bombshell! Melanie Stansbury linked to Jeffrey Epstein Associate Ghislaine Maxwell—Who is in Jail Right Now on Child Sex Abuse Charges</a></h2></div><div class="blogDateTitleContainer"><div class="blogDateTitle">04/23/2021</div></div><div class="blogItem"><p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>The CD1 Democratic Nominee Working for TerraMar? Wow!</strong></span></p>
<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/imagesblog/Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein.jpg" style="float:left; height:197px; margin:4px; width:350px" /><img alt="" src="/uploads/imagesblog/Stansbury%2C%20Melanie%20Ann.jpg" style="float:left; height:200px; margin:4px; width:200px" />Melanie Stansbury, the Democrats’ nominee in the CD1 Special Election, released her Federal financial disclosures on February 21, 2021. (All federal candidates are required to list their source(s) of income for the prior year.) </p>
<p>Melanie Stansbury claims to be a "scientist" any time her occupation is mentioned, but has been somewhat vague about what all that entails. The financial disclosure she produced revealed five consulting contracts:</p>
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<li>Wildlife Conservation Society—Bethesda, Maryland</li>
<li>Thornburg Foundation—Santa Fe, New Mexico</li>
<li>TerraMar—Woburn, Massachusetts</li>
<li>Turner Foundation—(no location listed)</li>
<li>University of New Mexico—Albuquerque, New Mexico</li>
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<p>Ms. Stansbury in her federal form also discloses the location of these various companies:</p>
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<p>The first glaring issue that arises from viewing Melanie Stansbury's employment history (which she signed and electronically verified) is the TerraMar Project which is located in Woburn, Massachusetts.</p>
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<p>This raises a giant red flag. The TerraMar Project is a non-profit whose mission was saving the oceans. It was founded by the nefarious socialite and alleged child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell who was also the organization's president.</p>
<p>Yes, <u><em><strong>that</strong></em></u> Ghislaine Maxwell who travelled hand in hand with the now deceased Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell has been accused of acting as the convicted sexual predator’s accomplice, recruiting underage girls and abusing them alongside Epstein. Maxwell was recently arrested and indicted by the FBI. Maxwell who was arrested in July 2020 was charged with six felony counts related to the sexual abuse and trafficking of minors and lying to investigators.</p>
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<p>The Maxwell indictment states G.M. groomed minors for Epstein and it focuses on the years between 1994-1997.</p>
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<p>The Ghislaine Maxwell indictment. Charges include:</p>
<p>1) Conspiracy to entice minors to engage in illegal sex acts</p>
<p>2) Conspiracy to transport minors to engage in illegal sex acts</p>
<p>3) Transportation of a minor to engage in illegal sex acts</p>
<p>4) Perjury</p>
<p>Most importantly, GM is accused of abusing minors in New York, Florida, <em><u><strong>New Mexico</strong></u></em>, and London.</p>
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<p>Why would "scientist" and Democrat politician Melanie Stansbury choose to have any association with the TerraMar Project in Woburn, Massachusetts which was founded by Ghislaine Maxwell in 2012 and linked to Jeffery Epstein and allegedly his child trafficking activities?</p>
<p>Without question, TerraMar was very well known on the global stage. In fact, Ms. Maxwell personally presented her ocean conservation program to the United Nations General Assembly.</p>
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<p><em>"These high-profile events dovetailed with Maxwell’s and the Project’s high-profile partnerships and wealthy donors. The Project’s effort to hold the United Nations to sustainable promises made regarding the ocean were praised and supported by the Clinton Global Initiative."</em></p>
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<p>Why would anyone with a resume like Melanie Stansbury who claims she could work just about anywhere, work for TerraMar and Ghislaine Maxwell?</p>
<p>Wouldn't a "scientist" recognize that any ties to anything affiliated with an organization under Ghislaine Maxwell’s brand have the potential to allow prospective voters to question Ms. Stansbury's judgment? And, more important, question her values and moral authority to hold public office?</p>
<p>It appears to us that many questions need to be asked as voters complete their vetting of all the CD1 nominees.</p>
<p>Anyone associated with carrying water for such diabolical figures as Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein needs to be closely scrutinized.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Can anyone imagine what the outcry would be if Republican CD1 candidate Mark Moores had worked for Maxwell/Epstein? </strong></span></p>
<p>Be honest: You know good and well that it would be wall-to-wall for the next six weeks on every TV station in New Mexico, and it would be the subject of <em><u>very grave </u></em>coverage from all New Mexico newspapers as well as the <u>very most serious kind of introspective editorials</u> from the <em>Santa Fe New Mexican</em>. Every. Single. Day.</p>
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<div style="text-align:start">We are fans of both Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, but they both need to shut up about the Derek Chauvin trial.</div>
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<div style="text-align:start">As we noted in our issue of April 9, the verdict is (was) a foregone conclusion. And that was not based on some conspiracy or trick by the media. It was based on testimony that we could all see. And we listened as more and more evidence was piled on to the visual.</div>
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<div style="text-align:start">Don’t get us wrong: the media are doing many evil things. Their allies on Capitol Hill are engaged in much that is evil and detrimental—obviously—to the future of our country. But the conviction of Derek Chauvin is not one of those things. And howling about his conviction actually hurts all conservatives because it makes it appear that none of us understand right from wrong and that we’re going to gripe about every single thing.</div>
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<div style="text-align:start">We have more and more on the national plate that is crucial to our country and our constitutional republic. So it is vitally important that we pick our fights because we are in a position to win very few right now.</div>
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<div style="text-align:start">The bottom line is that Derek Chauvin was in fact guilty, certainly of manslaughter, but most of all guilty of inordinate pride, stubbornness, and stupidity.</div>
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<div style="text-align:start">He was yelled at over and over to stop what he was doing but he was too stubborn—too egotistical—to admit even for a second that what he was doing was wrong.</div>
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<div style="text-align:start">All of us who live to be a certain age need to examine ourselves. If we have reached a point in our lives where experience should have taught us better, but we’re still unable to admit in the heat of the moment that we are in error or that we’re doing something wrong, well, we may have just learned nothing from life.</div>
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<div style="text-align:start">It certainly appears that Derek Chavin is one of those people who reached a certain age but had learned very little.</div>
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<div style="text-align:start">Mount Chauvin is not a hill to die on.
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<div style="text-align:start">Was anyone "killed"? Yes. One person. Ashli Babbitt.</div>
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<div style="text-align:start">She was a 35-year-old military veteran from San Diego. She was unarmed. But she was shot as she tried to crawl through a broken window. That’s all we know. Authorities have refused to release the name of the man who shot her. They also have refused to explain why she was shot. We may never know the answer to why her life was taken from her.</div>
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<div style="text-align:start"><strong>ROSANNE BOYLAND</strong>, a 34-year-old woman from Georgia. Authorities say she died of a “medical emergency.” Some have said she “may have been trampled accidentally.” But that is speculation. The cause of death remains unclear.</div>
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<div style="text-align:start"><strong>KEVIN GREESON</strong>, a 55-year-old who had a history of high blood pressure. His wife said, “In the midst of the excitement, he suffered a heart attack."</div>
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<div style="text-align:start"><strong>BENJAMIN PHILLIPS</strong>, 50 years old. He died of a stroke. But he died outside on the grounds of the Capitol. He never entered the building and there is no evidence he was part of the mob attack.</div>
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<div style="text-align:start"><strong>BRIAN SICKNICK</strong>, a 42-year-old Capitol police officer. His police union chief announced that he “died of a stroke.” Media reports have stated—falsely—many times, that he was “beaten to death with a fire extinguisher.” But this is simply not true. He was not beaten with a fire extinguisher or anything else. No one knows where this story came from. But it has been repeated over and over by those in media and in politics. For whatever reason, his body was immediately cremated, and his autopsy has been sealed.</div>
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<div style="text-align:start">We hope this clears up a lot of things for people.</div>
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<div style="text-align:start">Bear in mind that none of what happened in the invasion of the Capitol by the mob is in any way excusable. All those who violated the law should be prosecuted and sentenced to jail. The rioters were, and remain, idiots. But the amount of disinformation about the event is massive. And it adds to concerns that the US media are no longer sources of "news," but merely vehicles for manipulation of public opinion.
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<div style="text-align:start">We don’t know. But we can take a guess.</div>
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<div style="text-align:start">The Minnesota Statutes cover deaths caused by negligence with the felony crime of manslaughter in the second degree and it has a maximum penalty of ten years imprisonment along with up to $20,000 in fines. A person may be found guilty of this offense under circumstances such as:</div>
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<div style="text-align:start">Our best guess: she is likely to be offered a plea deal that will probably result in some where around 4 to 5 year prison sentence. She will take that deal and probably end up serving about 2 1/2 years.</div>
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<div style="text-align:start">On the other hand, in the Derek Chauvin case, should his conviction be for involuntary manslaughter, he would most likely receive the maximum sentence of 10 years. It is our understanding that he could also be convicted of manslaughter or second-degree murder, which could result in a much longer sentence.
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<div class="blogItemTitle"><h2><a href="Default.aspx?f8c38a75aa484b4dbf205c150d8d029fblogPostId=8107f7b38bf1448f9c8eac56dfd0fb5c#BlogContent">NMPJ Proved Correct: We broke the Story on Grisham and James Hallinan. Now the MSM is Admitting we were Correct. So is Lujan Grisham!</a></h2></div><div class="blogDateTitleContainer"><div class="blogDateTitle">04/14/2021</div></div><div class="blogItem"><p>One year, three months, and 19 days ago, on Thursday, December 26, 2019, <em>New Mexico Political Journal </em>broke the Sexual Assault story regarding Governor Lujan Grisham and her former aide, James Hallinan. (See excerpt below.) We had noticed a tweet from Hallinan to which no one in the media anywhere was paying any attention. We did.</p>
<p>Only after our story ran, did the <em>Albuquerque Journal</em> decide to do a story. Then, the next day, the <em>Santa Fe New Mexican </em>followed suit. Some four days later, Albuquerque Democrat blogger Monahan reluctantly took notice.</p>
<p>The comically rogue party switcher and former campaign aide to Mayor Tim Keller and Udall, John Block—now a "Republican" poser— attacked our story, taking up for Grisham, calling the story illegitimate.</p>
<p>His sometime ally Eddy Aragon (they both have run the gamut from Republican bashers to claiming to be "conservatives"), the erstwhile semi-deranged radio station scam artist, joined him in viciously criticizing our story, hollering that "no police report" has been found—which was a detail that had not stopped him (or anyone else) from discussing the reports surrounding Justice Kavanaugh—and many others.</p>
<p>Here's what Aragon said 15 months ago:</p>
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<p><em>“This is not a story”…“Sorry folks…I smell BS…PAY NO ATTENTION TO THIS!..."It has to be corroborated…” Has he gone to law enforcement? Does he have an attorney? “As much as I would like to cover this and wouldn’t mind this being true, he’s going to need a lawyer and a criminal report before his claim can be legitimized. There’s no one to corroborate his claims…If he actually contacts law enforcement then we can “play ball” folks! Let’s see what happens.</em></p>
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<p>Again, this is NOT a courtesy that Aragon extended to Justice Kavanaugh or ANY Republican accused of wrongdoing. All those were discussed regardless of the existence of a police report.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Aragon, others, Now Lying About the Hallinan Case</strong></span></p>
<p>We wouldn't be wasting time on Aragon if it weren't for the fact that he is now lying on his radio station, saying that he has "been on top of this story from the very beginning." His audience (which is quite tiny, perahps 150 or so) may be too clueless to realize that he is misrepresenting what he actually did on the story.</p>
<p>The Republican Party of New Mexico, led by Anisa Galassini Tinnin and Steve Pearce, also dismissed the story. Perhaps it was because we had called them out for the damage they have done to the Republican Party, in losing the state house and numerous other fiascos, but the reality is that they essentially defended Grisham just to be able to attack NMPJ.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Our Story was Not Only First, it was Also Accurate. Here's the First Part of Our Story from 2019:</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#B22222"> Thursday, December 26, 2019</span></strong></p>
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<h2> Grisham-gate: Sexual Assault. Where is the Coverage? New Mexico Media Continues with</h2>
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<p style="text-align:left">Think for just a moment. If some prominent political operative came up on the internet with allegations of <u><em><strong>sexual assault</strong></em></u> against Susana Martinez (or any prominent* Republican) how long do you think it would be until there was wall-to-wall coverage of the story?</p>
<p style="text-align:left">On every TV station in Albuquerque? On El Paso or Lubbock TV? On KKOB? On the front pages of the Albuquerque Journal? The Santa Fe New Mexican? The Las Cruces Sun-News? On every tweet or blog posting by the Democrat Party spokesman—little Joey Monahan?<span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:sans-serif,arial,verdana,trebuchet ms; font-size:13px"><img alt="" src="https://www.newmexicopoliticaljournal.com/uploads/imagesblog/Hallinan%202.jpg" style="border:0px; float:right; height:390px; margin:4px; width:300px" /></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left">We can answer it for you: <u>It would be non-stop</u>! It would be bigger than the headlines on Pearl Harbor.</p>
<p style="text-align:left">(Hell, it would be huge even if it was for running a red light or maybe even talking loud in a restaurant. But <em><u>sexual assault?</u></em><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:sans-serif,arial,verdana,trebuchet ms; font-size:13px"> </span>Holy moly! Heaven forbid! It would be beyond<span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:sans-serif,arial,verdana,trebuchet ms; font-size:13px"> HUGE!) </span></p>
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<p style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>We Contacted Hallinan's Lawyer Almost Immediately When the Story Broke</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left">We later Corresponded with Hallinan's Attorney, Rachel Berlin Benjamin, who sent us the following email on January 16, 2020, during the time that major media organizations, plus small fry like Aragon, Block, Monahan, and the Republican Party of New Mexico were appearing to work in concert to cover up the story.</p>
<p style="text-align:left"> [Editor, NMPJ]</p>
<p> In response to Governor Lujan Grisham's public comments today regarding my client, Mr. Hallinan:</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12px"><em>It’s unfair to victims. It’s completely false. There are real victims every single day and in this poisonous climate that’s what happens, right? that they use these things and they hide from real things do happen. I hope he gets help, but I’m proud of who I am, what I stand for and what we are going to get done. — </em>Gov. Michelle Grisham</span></p>
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<p> I have issued the following statement:</p>
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<p><em>"Governor Lujan Grisham’s comments are inappropriate and damaging, only serving to revictimize Mr. Hallinan and countless other victims. We look forward to a court’s assessment of who the 'real victims' are and who truly seeks to 'hide' from the 'real things' they have perpetrated against employees and associates over the years. We are hopeful that other victims will come forward to further expose the truth." </em></p>
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<p> Rachel Berlin Benjamin, lead legal counsel for James Hallinan</p>
<p> Buckley Beal, LLP</p>
<p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Now Comes the Story that Grisham has "Settled" — But Many Questions Remain</strong></span></p>
<p>Of course we hate to say it, but, well we told you so. <u><em>We have to get that out of the way, but we were the ONLY voice on this story</em></u>.</p>
<p>However, much more needs to be uncovered. The sum is paltry. Many questions remain unanswered.</p>
<p>The Governor states that the money she is paying to Hallinan is coming from campaign funds. Now the Secretary of State claims that that is legal. But it clearly is not. Throwing water on someone's trouser fly and grabbing someone by the crotch is in no way "campaign related."</p>
<p>This is a fraud in many ways.</p>
<p>Plus, where are the Governor's legal fees in all this? Where are they reported? Who negotiated with the Atlanta law firm Buckley Beal, LLP?</p>
<p>There's much more to this story.</p>
<p>But for right now, it's important to know that New Mexico Political Journal was correct, and the rest of the media got it wrong. As did Aragon, Block, the RPNM, et. al.</p>
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<div><em>New Mexico Political Journal</em>'s Editor Emeritus will be the guest speaker at the Carlsbad Republican Women's Meeting in Carlsbad about two weeks from now. </div>
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<div>Former State Senator Rod Adair, a demographer and redistricting consultant, will speak to the Republican Women's Club of Carlsbad on Thursday, April 15, 2021, at 11:30 AM.</div>
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<div>The meeting will be held at the Blodgett Street Baptist Church, 1500 W. Blodgett St., Carlsbad, New Mexico.</div>
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<div>The subject will be <u><strong>Redistricting</strong></u>.
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<p>Wednesday evening the Democratic Party Central Committee for Congressional District 1 chose State Representative Melanie Stansbury over State Senator Antoinette Sedillo Lopez. It took a real surge on the part of Stansbury, who moved from 43 votes on the first ballot to 103, a whopping gain of 60.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Sedillo Lopez was able to persuade only 23 of the 81 voters who had been up for grabs in the wake of the first round of voting.</p>
<p>As Wednesday began, Stansbury faced what appeared to be an uphill battle, needing 67% of those voters who had supported the six bottom candidates who had lost out in the first round. She pulled that off, getting 71% of them.</p>
<p>Not only that, she picked up an additional two votes from central committee members who had abstained in the first round.</p>
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<p>Once again, the Republican Party has fielded the only Hispanic candidate in the race, as they did in the Governor's elections in both 2010 and 2014, and a number of downballot races over the past generation.</p>
<p>While there is some truth to the idea that traditional New Mexico Hispanics are moving to the Republican Party, that movement is steady, but also very very slow.</p>
<p>What has been happening much faster is the movement to the Democrats of the more newly arrived Hispanics—who tend to be much less educated, with fewer professionals—very different demographically and economically from the central and Northern New Mexico families who've been here for many generations.</p>
<p>The newer Hispanics are attracted by the Democrats' emphasis on open borders, unfettered immigration—mainly illegal—and the Democrats' enthusiasm for public assistance once the immigrants arrive: education, health care, housing, and welfare.</p>
<p>Moores, whose mother is Hispanic, faces long odds. The district has not been competitive since the redistricting process in 2011-12, when a number of precincts were adjusted. But even worse for the GOP, the city of Albuquerque has continued its rather dramatic move the Left, making Bernalillo County—which is the overwhelming bulk of the district—very difficult for Republicans to carry.</p>
<p>However, lightning could strike, as no one knows what President Biden might do, mentally or physically. Additionally, there is the possibility of overreach by the national Democrats, possibly so dramatic that it invites a backlash among voters.</p>
<p>While such a phenomenon is unlikely to manifest itself by June 1, even if it were to do so it is likely that rhe reaction in CD1 would not be as dramatic in other parts of country.</p>
<p>Some observers have referenced the Special Election of 1997, when Republican Bill Redmond upset Democrat Eric Serna, believing that it gives hope to the GOP this year.</p>
<p>However, there are a number of differences:</p>
<p>1) Stansbury is a much stronger candidate than Eric Serna was. He carried a great deal of baggage, or at least what was perceived to be.</p>
<p>2) The entire state is more Left-leaning than it was then.</p>
<p>3) There is no Green Party candidate this year—in 1998, the Green candidate got 17% of the vote, hurting Serna significantly more than Redmond (Though we believe Redmond would still have won by a whisker had the Greens been forced to vote for one of the major party candidates.)</p>
<p>4) There is apparently going to be a Libertarian Party candidate in this race, likely to pull more votes from Moores than Stansbury.</p>
<p>5) Former Republican Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn plans to run as an independent. Despite the seeming foolishness of his party-switching move AFTER he was elected Land Commissione, it's unlikely he would take more votes from Stansbury than from Moores.</p>
<p>Still, in the final analysis, we are living in strange times. Dynamic times. And a special election always has a significantly lower turnout than a general election, a factor that tends to favor Republicans. For now, it's the Democrats' race to lose. They likely won't, but it's possible they could.</p>
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