<ul class="summary-list"><li>The first-term Rep. <keyword id="9842793" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="xochitl-torres-small">Xochitl Torres Small</keyword> has lost <keyword id="163030" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="new-mexico">New Mexico</keyword>'s 2nd Congressional District to her Republican challenger, <keyword id="9842794" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="yvette-herrell">Yvette Herrell</keyword>, according to Decision Desk HQ. </li><li>Herrell, a staunch conservative, made it through a bitter primary fight in June to face Torres Small, who defeated her by under 2 points in the 2018 midterm.</li><li>See the live coverage and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2020-house-elections-results">full results from all US House elections</a>.</li><li>The district encompasses the entire southern half of the state, stretching from the area immediately south of Albuquerque down to the US-Mexico border, and voted for Donald Trump by 10 points in 2016.</li></ul>The former GOP State Rep. Yvette Herrell has defeated the incumbent Democratic Rep. Xochitl Torres Small to win control of New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ. <h2>The candidates</h2>When former GOP Rep. Steve Pearce retired to run for governor in 2018, Torres Small narrowly beat out Herrell — a staunch conservative and supporter of President Donald Trump — by just under 2 percentage points despite Pearce carrying the district by 6 points in his gubernatorial campaign.Before being elected to Congress, Torres Small worked as an attorney on clean-water access and other environmental issues in New Mexico and later as an aide to the outgoing Sen. Tom Udall. In Congress, she serves on the powerful House Homeland Security and Agriculture committees.Herrell defeated the energy executive and businesswoman Claire Chase and the real-estate broker Chris Mathys to secure the Republican nomination again in the <keyword id="7600569" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="2020-election">2020 election</keyword>, <a href="https://apnews.com/8735f48299855e187a9465d38075d1ee">a contentious and at-times bitter primary fight</a>.Several well-funded Democratic organizations including the EMILY's List Women Vote PAC also got involved in the primary <a href="https://twitter.com/kirk_bado/status/1264922760721174529?">by sending out mailers</a> attacking Chase as insufficiently loyal to Trump in an effort to boost Herrell, who those groups believed to be a weaker candidate than Chase.The liberal super PAC Patriot Majority also spent $250,000 on ads similarly negatively framing Chase as a Trump-critical "lobbyist" and Herrell as a "loyalist," <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/05/democratic-super-pac-nm02-gop-primary/#utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=twitt_nm02-osg-052720g-052720">the Center for Responsive Politics</a> reported.<h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2020-election-results">See live coverage and full results for the US presidential election</a></h3><h2>The district</h2>The vast 2nd Congressional District encompasses the entire southern half of the state, stretching down from the area immediately south of Albuquerque down to the US-Mexico border.The 2nd District is over a quarter Hispanic and is also home to a substantial oil- and natural-gas industry presence. The district has traditionally leaned Republican, with <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/11/19/1163009/-Daily-Kos-Elections-presidential-results-by-congressional-district-for-the-2012-2008-elections">Trump carrying it by 10 points</a>, 50% to 40%, over Hillary Clinton in 2016. Trump's sizable 2016 margin of victory in the district made Torres Small one of the most vulnerable freshman Democrats up for reelection in 2020.<h2>The money race</h2>Torres Small built up a sizable cash advantage while Herrell fought to win her hotly contested primary.Torres Small raised over $7.5 million, spent $6.6 million, and has $1.1 million in cash on hand compared with $2.5 million raised, $2.5 million spent, and a little over $212,000 in cash on hand for Herrell, <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?cycle=2020&amp;id=NM02&amp;spec=Np;spec=N">according to the Center for Responsive Politics</a>.<h2>What some of the experts say: </h2>New Mexico's 2nd District was rated a "toss-up" by <a href="https://cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings">The Cook Political Report</a> and <a href="https://insideelections.com/ratings/house">Inside Elections</a> and "leans Democratic" by <a href="http://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/2020-house/">Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics</a>.Expanded Coverage Module: insider-voter-guide

Republican Yvette Herrell has defeated incumbent Rep. Xochitl Torres Small to win control of New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Rep. Yvette Herrell is running against Democrat Gabriel Vasquez in New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District.</li><li>The 2nd District encompasses western portions of of Albuquerque, the largest city in New Mexico. </li></ul>Republican New Mexico Rep. Yvette Herrell faces off against Democrat Gabriel Vasquez in New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District.<h2>New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District candidates</h2>Herrell, a Cherokee, joined the ranks of the very few Native Americans in Congress following her victory in 2020. She is the <a href="https://www.cherokeephoenix.org/news/herrell-first-native-gop-woman-elected-to-u-s-house/article_25e4df90-801d-11eb-9413-5fc8a7bfbb36.html">first</a> Native American Republican woman elected to the US House. The 58-year-old New Mexico native ran for the seat in 2018, but was narrowly defeated by her opponent, Democratic attorney and former Rep. Xochitl Torres Small. Herrell <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/us/politics/new-mexico-yvette-herrell.html">defeated</a> Small two years later.Prior to her time in Congress, Herrell represented New Mexico's 51st District for four terms in the New Mexico House of Representatives.<a href="https://gabeforcongress.com/meet-gabe/">Vasquez</a>, Herrell's challenger, is an outgoing Las Cruces city councilor. He defeated his opponent by a wide margin in the Democratic primary, bringing in more than two-thirds of the vote. Prior to running for Congress, Vasquez worked for US Sen. Martin Heinrich in southern New Mexico. He is <a href="https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/11/04/every-vote-counts-in-gabe-vasquez-run-to-unseat-yvette-herrell-in-congress-cd2-new-mexico/69620035007/">endorsed</a> by President Joe Biden. <h2>Voting history for New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District</h2>New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District encompasses the city of Las Cruces, the second largest city in the state, and western portions of Albuquerque, the largest. Former President Donald Trump had a 12 percentage point margin of victory over Biden under the district's previous boundaries in 2020 before it was <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/new-mexico/">redrawn to concede portions of the northeast</a> in redistricting following the 2020 Census, changing its political leaning from Republican to Democratic.Previously, the district spanned the entire southern portion of New Mexico, from one state line to the next. <h2>The money race</h2>According to <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?cycle=2022&amp;id=NM02">OpenSecrets</a>, Herrell has raised $3.9 million, spent $3.3 million, and has $683,057 of cash on hand, as of October 19. Her opponent, Vasquez, has raised $3.2 million, spent $2.9 million, and has $348,172 of cash still left to spend, as of October 19.As of early November, super PACs, national party committees, and other non-candidate committees had combined to <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/outside-spending?cycle=2022&amp;id=NM02&amp;spec=N">spend</a> about $13.4 million to advocate for or against candidates in this race, including during the primaries.<h2>What experts say</h2>The race between Herrell and Vasquez is rated as a "toss-up" by <a href="https://insideelections.com/ratings/house">Inside Elections</a>, a "toss-up" by <a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings">The Cook Political Report</a>, and "leans Republican" by <a href="https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/2022-house/">Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics</a>.

Republican Rep. Yvette Herrell faces off against Democrat Gabriel Vasquez in New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District election

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Rep. Yvette Herrell was defeated by Democrat Gabriel Vasquez in New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District.</li><li>The 2nd District encompasses western portions of of Albuquerque, the largest city in New Mexico. </li></ul>Republican New Mexico Rep. Yvette Herrell lost her bid for reelection against Democrat Gabriel Vasquez in New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District.Vasquez beat Herrell by less than a 1 percentage point margin. Polls closed in the state at 7 p.m. local time, or 9 p.m. EST. 2022 General Embeds <iframe id="embed-30456a9d-34e4-444e-a978-19022cb83a79" src="https://embeds.ddhq.io/app/v2/client/1.0/index.html?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" frameborder="0" width="100%"></iframe><h2>New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District candidates</h2>Herrell, a Cherokee, joined the ranks of the very few Native Americans in Congress following her victory in 2020. She is the <a href="https://www.cherokeephoenix.org/news/herrell-first-native-gop-woman-elected-to-u-s-house/article_25e4df90-801d-11eb-9413-5fc8a7bfbb36.html">first</a> Native American Republican woman elected to the US House. The 58-year-old New Mexico native ran for the seat in 2018, but was narrowly defeated by her opponent, Democratic attorney and former Rep. Xochitl Torres Small. Herrell <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/us/politics/new-mexico-yvette-herrell.html">defeated</a> Small two years later.Prior to her time in Congress, Herrell represented New Mexico's 51st District for four terms in the New Mexico House of Representatives.<a href="https://gabeforcongress.com/meet-gabe/">Vasquez</a>, Herrell's challenger, is an outgoing Las Cruces city councilor. He defeated his opponent by a wide margin in the Democratic primary, bringing in more than two-thirds of the vote. Prior to running for Congress, Vasquez worked for US Sen. Martin Heinrich in southern New Mexico. He is <a href="https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/11/04/every-vote-counts-in-gabe-vasquez-run-to-unseat-yvette-herrell-in-congress-cd2-new-mexico/69620035007/">endorsed</a> by President Joe Biden. <h2>Voting history for New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District</h2>New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District encompasses the city of Las Cruces, the second largest city in the state, and western portions of Albuquerque, the largest. Former President Donald Trump had a 12 percentage point margin of victory over Biden under the district's previous boundaries in 2020 before it was <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/new-mexico/">redrawn to concede portions of the northeast</a> in redistricting following the 2020 Census, changing its political leaning from Republican to Democratic.Previously, the district spanned the entire southern portion of New Mexico, from one state line to the next. <h2>The money race</h2>According to <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?cycle=2022&amp;id=NM02">OpenSecrets</a>, Herrell raised $3.9 million, spent $3.3 million, and had $683,057 of cash on hand, as of October 19. Her opponent, Vasquez, raised $3.2 million, spent $2.9 million, and had $348,172 of cash still left to spend, as of October 19.As of early November, super PACs, national party committees, and other non-candidate committees had combined to <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/outside-spending?cycle=2022&amp;id=NM02&amp;spec=N">spend</a> about $13.4 million to advocate for or against candidates in this race, including during the primaries.<h2>What experts say</h2>The race between Herrell and Vasquez was rated as a "toss-up" by <a href="https://insideelections.com/ratings/house">Inside Elections</a>, a "toss-up" by <a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings">The Cook Political Report</a>, and "leans Republican" by <a href="https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/2022-house/">Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics</a>.

Results: Republican Rep. Yvette Herrell defeated by Democrat Gabriel Vasquez in New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District election

<keyword id="11996224" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="new-mexico" source="Orion">New Mexico</keyword> held primary elections on June 7. Polls closed at 7 p.m. local time. <h2>The races and the stakes: </h2>New Mexico held primary elections for gubernatorial and congressional races on Tuesday. Republicans selected former television meteorologist Mark Ronchetti to challenge Democratic Gov. Michelle Luján Grisham, who was elected to the governorship in 2018 and is now running for a second term.The <a href="https://www.kob.com/archive/poll-mark-ronchetti-leading-gop-candidates-for-governor/">leading contenders on election night for the GOP gubernatorial nomination</a> included Ronchetti, state Rep. Rebecca Dow, and Jay Block, the Sandoval County Commissioner. Luján Grisham defeated her Republican opponent, former Rep. Steve Pearce, <a href="https://www.politico.com/election-results/2018/new-mexico/governor/">by more than 14 points in 2018</a>, and is heavily favored to win another term in the Democratic-leaning state. None of New Mexico's three incumbent House members, Democratic Reps. Melanie Stansbury and Teresa Leger Fernandez and Republican Rep. Yvette Herrell, faced any primary opposition. After the 2020 Census, New Mexico Democrats <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/new-mexico/">redrew their three congressional districts to be significantly more favorable turf for Democrats</a>, which could threaten Herrell. The new maps kept Stansbury's and Leger Fernandez's districts safely Democratic but split the heavily blue city of Albuquerque down the middle to turn New Mexico's 2nd District, represented by Herrell, into a highly competitive district in the general election.Herrell, elected in 2020, defeated former Democratic Rep. Xochitl Torres-Small in the former 2nd District, which previously comprised most of the southern half of the state. The 2nd District is now rated as a toss-up seat by election forecasters at <a href="https://www.cookpolitical.com/ratings/house-race-ratings">the Cook Political Report</a>, <a href="https://insideelections.com/ratings/house">Inside Elections</a>, and <a href="https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/2022-house/">Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. </a>The <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?cycle=2022&amp;id=NM02">two Democrats who fought in the primary</a> to take on Herrell in the general election were Gabe Vasquez, a former Las Cruces councilmember, and Darshan Patel, a physician. <h2>New Mexico state legislative primaries:</h2>

RESULTS: Mark Ronchetti wins GOP gubernatorial primary in New Mexico

<ul class="summary-list"><li>On Tuesday, <keyword id="163030" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="new-mexico">New Mexico</keyword> held Republican primaries in all its congressional districts, including a competitive GOP primary in New Mexico's second congressional district, a swing seat.</li><li>Former state Representative Yvette Herrell, who narrowly lost to Democratic Rep. Xochitl Torres-Small in 2018, defeated energy executive Claire Chase and businessman Chris Mathys for the GOP nomination. </li></ul><h2>The stakes:</h2>The most high-stakes Republican election in New Mexico today is the GOP primary in New Mexico's 2nd congressional district, a crucial battleground district that Trump carried by 10 percentage points in 2016 but is now in Democratic hands. When former GOP Rep. Steve Peace retired to run for governor in 2018, Democrat Xochitl Torres-Small narrowly beat out former state representative Yvette Herrell, a staunch Trump ally, by just under two percentage points despite Pearce carrying the district in his gubernatorial campaign.Now, Herrell defeated energy executive and businesswoman Claire Chase and real estate broker Chris Mathys for the Republican nomination in the 2020 district, which encompasses much of the southern part of the state and has a substantial oil and gas industry presence. This highly-watched primary took an ugly turn at points, however, with both Herrell's and Chase's camps lobbing salacious and nasty attacks at each other. Herrell has been accused of spreading rumors insinuating that Chase was unfaithful to her first husband while he was deployed — a charge that both Chase and her ex-husband vehemently deny — and even gave copy-editing advice to a cartoonist looking to distribute a meme about the rumor, <a href="https://apnews.com/8735f48299855e187a9465d38075d1ee">according to text messages obtained by the Associated Press.</a>In response, Chase called the rumors "despicable, untrue, and [a] deeply personal attack," with her campaign attacking Herrell over her record in the state legislature and a separate PAC <a href="https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/voters-to-decide-on-gop-nominee-in-southern-new-mexico-house-seat-after-heated-campaign/article_d178fdb2-424f-50d9-892b-6f6f5cde15fc.html">airing an ad accusing Herrell</a> of being at a party in California where attendees hit a piñata in the likeness of President Donald Trump. Several well-funded Democratic-aligned organizations including EMILY's List's Women Vote! PAC also got involved in the primary by sending out mailers attacking Chase as insufficiently pro-Trump in an effort to boost Herrell, who those groups believe to be a weaker candidate than Chase. The liberal super PAC Patriot Majority also spent $250,000 on ads similarly negatively framing Chase as a Trump-critical "lobbyist" and Herrell as a "loyalist," <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/05/democratic-super-pac-nm02-gop-primary/#utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=twitt_nm02-osg-052720g-052720">the Center for Responsive Politics</a> reported.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Kirk A. Bado (@kirk_bado) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1264922760721174529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2020</a></blockquote>Now, Republican strategists are worried that the mud-slinging in the primary — some of which has been come from Democratic groups — could end up hurting the GOP nominee against Torres-Small, according <a href="https://apnews.com/8735f48299855e187a9465d38075d1ee">to the Associated Press</a> and <a href="https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/706990/will-the-lowest-hanging-fruit-bruise-before-november">National Journal Hotline. </a>

Yvette Herrell wins the high-stakes Republican contest in New Mexico's 2nd congressional district

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="3828720" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="President-Donald-Trump">President Donald Trump</keyword> attacked former Vice President <keyword id="99719" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Joe-Biden">Joe Biden</keyword> during Thursday night's debate for promising to "transition from the <keyword id="34539" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="oil-industry">oil industry</keyword>."</li><li>Biden argued that the oil industry, which he said "pollutes significantly," should no longer receive federal subsidies and needs to be replaced by renewable energy "over time."</li><li>Trump claimed that Biden is "going to destroy the oil industry" and a slew of Republicans attacked Biden over his comments. </li><li>The idea that Democrats want to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources is nothing new. </li><li>Polling shows Americans are increasingly concerned about <keyword id="6361617" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="climate-change">climate change</keyword>, think Trump hasn't done enough to address the issue, and want more drastic action to be taken going forward.</li></ul>President Donald Trump attacked former Vice President Joe Biden during Thursday night's debate for promising to "transition from the oil industry" as part of his plan to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Biden argued that the oil industry, which he said "pollutes significantly," should no longer receive federal subsidies and needs to be replaced by renewable energy "over time.""Basically what he's saying is he is going to destroy the oil industry," Trump interjected.The president then warned voters in states with large fossil fuel industries that Biden is coming for their jobs. "Will you remember that Texas? Will you remember that Pennsylvania? Oklahoma? Ohio?"Notably, Trump won all four of these states in 2016, but polling shows Biden is narrowing the gap in <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/texas/">Texas</a> and <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/ohio/">Ohio</a> and outperforming Trump <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/21/politics/cnn-polls-pennsylvania-florida/index.html">in Pennsylvania</a>. Biden may have regretted his wording, as he clarified his position after the debate, telling reporters he meant he would wean the oil industry off of federal subsidies, but not immediately eliminate fossil fuels. "We're not getting rid of fossil fuels," Biden said. "We're getting rid of the subsidies for fossil fuels, but we're not getting rid of fossil fuels for a long time." But the idea that Democrats, including Biden, want to eventually fully replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources is nothing new. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/americans-increasingly-see-climate-change-as-a-crisis-poll-shows/2019/09/12/74234db0-cd2a-11e9-87fa-8501a456c003_story.html">A slew</a> of recent <a href="https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2020/9/2/voters-want-to-cancel-fossil-fuels">polling</a> shows that Americans are increasingly concerned about climate change, think Trump hasn't done enough to address the issue, and want more drastic action to be taken going forward. In <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/10/06/how-important-is-climate-change-to-voters-in-the-2020-election/">an October Pew poll</a>, 68% of Americans said climate change will play a very or somewhat important role in determining who they'll vote for in the upcoming election. Republicans were quick to target Biden over his comments on fossil fuels. Texas Republicans like Gov. Greg Abbott, former Gov. Rick Perry, and Sen. Ted Cruz sought to weaponize the remarks and warned Biden's policies would eliminate fossil fuel jobs. "Hey Texas and Pennsylvania, @JoeBiden just admitted he would transition from the oil industry, effectively killing an estimated 11 million jobs," Rick Perry, Trump's former Secretary of Energy and the former GOP governor of Texas, <a href="https://twitter.com/GovernorPerry/status/1319468769744400384">tweeted</a>. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1319470228498251776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2020</a></blockquote>Some vulnerable Democrats also publicly distanced themselves from Biden's position. "I disagree with VP Biden's statement tonight," Rep. Xochitl Torres Small, who represents a rural swing district in New Mexico, <a href="https://twitter.com/XochforCongress/status/1319489170784608256">tweeted</a> on Thursday night. "Energy is part of the backbone of New Mexico's economy. We need to work together to promote responsible energy production and stop climate change, not demonize a single industry." Kendra Horn, a Democratic candidate for the House in Oklahoma, <a href="https://twitter.com/HornForCongress/status/1319474800901951493">tweeted</a> that Democrats "must stand up for our <keyword id="43177" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Oil-and-gas">oil and gas</keyword> industry.""We need an all-of-the-above energy approach that's consumer friendly, values energy independence, and protects OK jobs," she said. Trump has long denied the threat of climate change, even calling it a "hoax" perpetrated by the Chinese, and his administration has aggressively rolled back regulations and other policy designed to protect the <keyword id="6356826" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ENVIRONMENT">environment</keyword> and slow climate change. The Trump administration had reversed or eliminated at least 70 environmental regulations and 30 additional policy reversals were in progress as of mid-July, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks.html">a New York Times report</a> found. Biden, who calls climate change an "existential threat," says he doesn't support the Green New Deal -- a sweeping progressive bill spearheaded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -- but his campaign website refers to the proposal as a "crucial framework." "We're told by all the leading scientists in the world we don't have much time," Biden said on Thursday. "We're going to pass the point of no return within the next eight to 10 years. Four more years of this man … will put us in a position where we'll be in real trouble." Trump and his allies have aggressively attacked the Green New Deal, and Trump said Ocasio-Cortez and three other freshman congresswomen of color who support the proposal "know nothing about the climate" during Thursday's debate.

Trump seized on Biden's promise to 'transition away from oil,' but the move away from fossil fuels is nothing new

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Forty-four percent of Americans and registered voters say they've seen a political ad featuring Rep. <keyword id="7018494" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</keyword>, according to recent Insider <keyword id="43669" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Polling">polling</keyword>. </li><li>The freshman congresswoman is being mentioned in political ads to motivate voters by politicians across the spectrum, including by the president. </li><li>Notably, the ads motivated liberals and conservatives at relatively similar levels.</li></ul>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York won her Democratic primary in June with nearly 75% of the vote in her safe blue district.But Ocasio-Cortez's political appeal is being tested far beyond the Bronx and Queens.Politicians across the country and the political spectrum are juxtaposing or aligning themselves with Ocasio-Cortez and her progressive <keyword id="6358883" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="politics">politics</keyword> in their <keyword id="1767535" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Campaign-Ads">campaign ads</keyword>. About 44% of Americans and registered voters have seen an ad featuring or mentioning the freshman congresswoman, according to recent Insider polling conducted over SurveyMonkey Audience. About 15% of registered voters said they saw an ad featuring AOC and were "more inclined to vote for Republicans" after seeing it, while about 14% saw one and were "more inclined to vote for <keyword id="6534156" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Democrats">Democrats</keyword>." Sixteen percent saw one and said it wouldn't affect their vote. A third of respondents said they hadn't seen any such ads, 8% said they don't watch political ads, and 14% said they hadn't seen one, and even if they had it wouldn't affect their vote. Notably, the ads motivated Democrats and Republicans at relatively similar levels. About 45% of "very conservative" voters, 39% of "moderately conservative" voters, and 21% of "slightly conservative" voters said they were inclined to vote for the GOP after seeing the ads. On the flip side, 37% of "very liberal" voters, 25% of "moderately liberal" voters, and 16% of "slightly liberal" voters said they were more inclined to vote for Democrats. <h2><div type="image" title="A Trump campaign ad links Democratic nominee Joe Biden to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders." height="640" width="1280" msid="77943367" hostid="261"></div></h2><h2>A champion and a bogeywoman</h2>President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign have long attempted to tie Ocasio-Cortez's political brand and policy proposals to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. And in some of the most conservative states and districts across the country, Republicans are using Ocasio-Cortez as a bogeywoman and symbol of the so-called "radical" socialist left. Ocasio-Cortez's name, image, and policies have been used in several competitive GOP primary races, in which candidates positioned themselves as the most pro-Trump and anti-left option. "AOC wants to plunge us into Communism — she is clueless about how capitalism even works," Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, a QAnon supporter who last month won the GOP primary runoff in a deep-red Georgia district, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oP99HiZ_iA">said in a campaign ad</a>. Greene has featured Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive freshman congresswomen, including Reps. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley, in several social media posts. On Friday, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-deleted-gop-candidates-post-threatening-violence-against-aoc-2020-9">Facebook removed an image Greene posted</a> of herself holding an assault rifle next to images of Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, and Tlaib. The social media giant said the image violated its policy on "violence and incitement." Lauren Boebert, a far-right Republican nominated for <keyword id="1575" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Congress">Congress</keyword> in Colorado's third district, ran explicitly as <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/2020/07/01/lauren-boebert-ran-against-aoc-and-the-squad-and-beat-rep-scott-tipton-in-the-process/">an anti-AOC candidate</a>, tying GOP incumbent Rep. Scott Tipton to "left-wing lunatics.""Scott Tipton cosponsored HR 6467, teaming up with AOC and her squad to give Boulder a bailout," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0yYeOWmU30&amp;feature=emb_titleitle">one of her ads</a> said. Both Greene and Boebert will likely win the general elections in their conservative districts and become Ocasio-Cortez's colleagues next year.Running in a similarly competitive Senate primary in Tennessee, Republican Bill Hagerty flashed an image of Ocasio-Cortez's face in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&amp;v=TipXgmpNMYg&amp;feature=emb_titlemb_title">a campaign ad</a> as the narrator says, "The Washington liberals have wanted to impeach President Trump since day one of his presidency. They know they can't beat Trump at the ballot box, so they're trying to steal the next election." <div type="image" title="Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is featured in an ad for Sen. Ed Markey's reelection campaign." height="640" width="1280" msid="77943369" hostid="261"></div>Ocasio-Cortez has somewhat eclipsed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the right's bogeywoman. While Pelosi was mentioned in more than 130,000 House and Senate campaign ads during the 2018 cycle, she's been mentioned in just 44 ads during the 2020 cycle, <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2020/09/04/why-republicans-arent-really-campaigning-against-pelosi-490256">Politico reported Friday</a>. The GOP may have dropped their attacks on Pelosi in part because Democrats took back the House — flipped 41 seats — in 2018.For her part, the 30-year-old democratic socialist has leveraged her massive social media following and influence on the left to endorse and campaign for fellow progressives.Sen. Ed Markey leaned heavily on Ocasio-Cortez's support to win his competitive Massachusetts primary against Rep. Joe Kennedy on September 1. Markey ran as the more progressive Democrat in the race, touting his work with Ocasio-Cortez on the Green New Deal and positioning himself as a fighter for a younger, grassroots left. Ocasio-Cortez cut <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk0M-qk--LY">a 30-second ad</a> for Markey, while the senator featured her prominently in another ad that went viral. But Democrats looking to win independent or right-leaning voters have stayed away from Ocasio-Cortez — and in at least one recent case, touted their opposition to her policies. Democratic Rep. Xochitl Torres Small, who represents a rural purple New Mexico district, noted in <a href="https://twitter.com/JacobRubashkin/status/1301603952287416320">a recent campaign ad</a> that she voted against "AOC's fracking ban bill." INSIDER conducted a SurveyMonkey Audience poll on a national sample August 7-8. We had 1,150 respondents and a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.SurveyMonkey Audience polls from a national sample balanced by census data of age and gender. Respondents are incentivized to complete surveys through charitable contributions. Generally speaking, digital polling tends to skew toward people with access to the internet. SurveyMonkey Audience doesn't try to weight its sample based on race or income. This survey had a total 1,150 respondents, a margin of error plus or minus 3 percentage points with a 95% confidence level.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Today, nine states and the District of Columbia are holding presidential, congressional, or other down-ballot primaries.</li><li>Indiana, DC, Maryland, Montana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and South Dakota are holding presidential primaries.</li><li>Iowa and Idaho, which already had their presidential primaries, are holding primaries for congressional races.</li><li>Follow along here for live updates as results come in tonight and over the next few days.</li></ul><h2>What's at stake:</h2>Sen. Bernie Sanders officially dropped out of the presidential primary on April 8, making former Vice President Joe Biden the presumptive Democratic nominee.Though Sanders will stay on the ballot in upcoming primaries and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sanders-will-continue-gathering-delegates-to-influence-dnc-platform-2020-4">earn delegates from those contests</a> for his representatives to have a seat on important Democratic National Convention committees that determine the convention rules and party platform going forward, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-endorses-joe-biden-2020-election-2020-4">Sanders formally endorsed Biden on April 13.</a>There are 479 pledged delegates up for grabs in the eight presidential nominating contests taking place today. Biden currently needs 465 more to formally earn the 1,991 delegates required to clinch the nomination, meaning he is unlikely to meet the threshold today. Here's where Biden and Sanders currently stand in the delegate race, according to Decision Desk HQ and the University of Virginia Center for <keyword id="6358883" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="politics">Politics</keyword>: <iframe src="https://embeds.ddhq.io/2020demdelegatetracker/delegate-tracker-business-insider/dist/index.html" style="border: 0; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;" scrolling="no"></iframe>In addition to presidential primaries, there are also several important congressional and other down-ballot primaries taking place today, including Democratic primaries for the US Senate in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/montana-congressional-dem-primary-kathleen-williams-matt-rosendale-live-results-2020-6">Montana</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/iowa-senate-dem-primary-theresa-greenfield-mike-franken-live-results-2020-6">Iowa</a> — <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/the-pandemic-could-cost-trump-and-the-gop-senate-control-2020-5">two competitive seats Democrats are hoping to flip this cycle. </a>In the House of Representatives, the most highly-watched primary today <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-king-vs-randy-feenstra-primary-in-iowa-4th-district-live-results-2020-6">is the GOP primary challenge to embattled Rep. Steve King in Iowa's fourth congressional district</a>, a safe Republican seat.After being rebuked by his own party and losing his committee assignments over racist comments he made to The New York Times, King is facing a tough primary challenge from GOP State Senator Randy Feenstra, who has outraised King and been backed by a number of GOP groups including the US Chamber of Commerce, the political arm of the Republican Main Street Partnership, and the Republican Jewish Council. In New Mexico, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/valerie-plame-teresa-leger-fernandez-new-mexico-primary-live-results-2020-6">there is also a competitive Democratic primary in the state's third congressional district</a>, a safe blue seat which current Rep. Ben Ray Lujan is vacating to run for US Senate. Former CIA analyst Valerie Plame is competing against Teresa Fernandez Leger, an attorney, lobbyist, and long-time local community activist.New Mexico's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/new-mexico-2nd-district-yvette-herrell-vs-claire-chase-live-results-2020-6">second congressional district</a>, located in the southern portion of the state, is a highly competitive swing district that Democratic Rep. Xochitl Torres-Small won back in the 2018 midterms. Former state representative and 2018 GOP nominee Yvette Herrell is running again for the nomination again against energy executive and businesswoman Claire Chase. There are competitive Democratic and Republican primaries <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/indiana-congressional-primaries-live-results-vote-counts-2020-6">in two open Indiana congressional districts</a>: the state's solidly blue first district, where Democratic Rep. Peter Visclosky is retiring, and the fifth district, where Republican Rep. Susan Brooks is retiring. Republican State Senator Victoria Spartz and Democratic State Representative Christina Hale won their respective primaries to advance to the general election in the fifth district, a competitive contest for both parties. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pennsylvania-congressional-primaries-live-updates-results-2020-6">In Pennsylvania,</a> there are notable Democratic primaries in the state's Republican-held 1st and 10th congressional districts, both of which are set to be competitive this fall, and a crowded Republican primary in the state's Democratic-controlled eighth congressional district. Pennsylvania, which allows absentee voting without an excuse, will likely not report results from the first and tenth congressional district primaries, in addition to numerous other races, until next week.After widespread reports of voters in highly populated counties not receiving their ballots in time, Governor Tom Wolf <a href="https://www.governor.pa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200601-EO-Deadline-Extention.pdf">issued an executive order</a> extending the deadline for voters in six counties — Philadelphia, Allegheny, Dauphin, Delaware, Erie, and Montgomery — to have their ballots counted. In those places, ballots will be accepted if they are postmarked by June 2 and arrive by 5 p.m. on June 9. Maryland is holding primaries <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/maryland-congressional-dem-primary-kathleen-williams-matt-rosendale-live-results-2020-6">in its seven congressional districts</a>, in addition to a crowded and highly-watched <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/who-won-baltimore-mayors-race-primary-2020-6">Democratic primary in the Baltimore mayoral election</a>, where incumbent Mayor Bernard "Jack" Young is fighting to be re-elected. <div type="image" title="Pennsylvania elections" height="1000" width="2000" msid="76160042" hostid="261"></div><h2>What time the polls close in every state:</h2>Many of the states holding elections today have made modifications to their election procedures to make it easier for voters to cast absentee and mail-in ballots during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has heightened the risks of voting in-person. Due to the pandemic and states encouraging voters to cast ballots from home, the percentage of voters voting absentee or by mail is expected to increase this year, including in today's primaries. Since many states still accept absentee ballots until a certain date after election day and, in some cases, cannot start processing ballots until election day, some closer races may not be decided until after election night. <ul><li>Polls closed in most of Indiana at 6 p.m. E.T., but polls in some counties located in the Central Time Zone close at 6 p.m. C.T. and 7 p.m. E.T. Indiana has also relaxed their absentee ballot rules to allow anyone to vote absentee without an excuse. </li><li>Voters in the District of Columbia, which doesn't require an excuse to vote by mail, are being "strongly encouraged" to cast and send in mail-in ballots, with the city offering limited in-person voting options. Polls close at 8 p.m. ET.</li><li>Maryland sent out a mail-in ballot to every registered voter and is also offering scaled-back in-person voting. Polls close at 8 p.m. ET.</li><li>Polls close in Pennsylvania, which allows absentee voting without an excuse, at 8 p.m. ET. In Philadelphia and five other counties, however, absentee ballots postmarked by June 2 will be accepted if they arrive by 5 p.m. on June 9. </li><li>Polls close in South Dakota at 7 p.m. Mountain Time and 9.m. ET. All voters were sent absentee ballot applications in the mail for today's primary. </li><li>In New Mexico, which allows absentee voting without an excuse, polls close at 7 p.m. Mountain Time and 9.m. Eastern Time. </li><li>In Montana, which allows mail-in voting without an excuse, counties are authorized to send out mail-in ballots directly to voters. Polls close at 8 p.m. Mountain Time and 10 p.m. E.T. </li><li>In Iowa, which sent every registered voter an absentee ballot application for today's election, polls close at 9 p.m. Central Time and 10 p.m. E.T. </li></ul>Read the original article on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/june-2-presidential-congressional-primaries-live-results-vote-counts-2020-6">Business Insider</a>

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