Rep.-elect Melanie Stansbury's 24-point win Tuesday has Democrats feeling more optimistic about their fragile House majority
, House Democrats got some good news on Tuesday: They’re still in the fight for 2022.
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney questions former White House national security aide Fiona Hill, and David Holmes, a U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, as they testify before the House Intelligence Committee in Washington. | Andrew Harrer/Pool Photo via AP “Those blows did not land,” Leger Fernández said of the Republican attacks, adding: “People wanted to make sure that we keep our majority, and they saw that keeping this seat was a part of it.”
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz speaks to the media in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. | Joe Raedle/Getty Imagesin a Texas special election. In that race, no Democratic candidate advanced to the two-person runoff in a rapidly diversifying suburban district here. But ahead of the New Mexico race, “It provides a playbook for candidates across the country, but I think it's a one-two punch,” Maloney said. “You've got to talk about growing the economy, creating jobs, ending the pandemic, delivering results — and also respond aggressively to these lies and distortions about defunding the police.”
Rep. Tony Cardenas speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington.AP | J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo Haaland, who in 2018 became one of the first two Native American women ever elected to Congress, won reelection by 16 points in 2020, as Biden notched a 23-point win in the district. According to unofficial results, Stansbury cruised to a 24-point win over Moores, a state senator and former football player for the University of New Mexico who centered his campaign entirely on crime.
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