New Mexico doesn't require ID to vote in statewide elections. Hull's campaign site says he'd change that — 'uniform enforcement of voter identification requirements' statewide — while refusing to answer a questionnaire asking whether people should be able to vote without photo ID.
Medicaid covers about 42% of New Mexicans — the highest rate in the country. Asked how he'd govern through Trump's cuts, the Republican nominee for governor said if it 'requires some scaling back, then we'll have to look at that.'
Hull opposes a pause on new data centers and says they should be sited where 'produced water is available.' New Mexico's own scientists say that water is a toxic soup that can't be treated safely — and the state banned discharging it last year.
Harris won New Mexico with 51.9% of the vote to 45.9%, a margin of 6 points. (Full 2024 presidential results, state by state.)
0 of 5 — 0%. In the U.S. House, New Mexico has 0 Republicans and 3 Democrats; in the Senate, 0 Republicans and 2 Democrats. (Source: Current members of Congress from New Mexico, on Wikipedia.)
New Mexico ranks #44 of 50. That is the average of its rank on the 17 measures in the report card above — violent crime, gun deaths, life expectancy, food insecurity, maternal and infant mortality, household income, public education, voter turnout and more. #1 is the best state to live in, #50 the worst.
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1, listed above. We grade Republicans running in 2026 — U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives and governors — on their record: how they voted, who funds them, and what it has cost New Mexico. Democrats and independents do not get report cards.
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