COMPLETE RESULTS: Click here for full election results LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — In one of the country’s most hotly contested U.S. House races, Republican challenger Yvette Herrell won by roughly 20,000 votes late Tuesday night, as the New Mexico Secretary of State said only 2,000 absentee ballots remained to be counted. Incumbent Democrat Xochitl
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COMPLETE RESULTS: Click here for full election results EL PASO, Texas – Former El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser built a huge lead in a crowded mayoral field and was headed to a runoff with current Mayor Dee Margo in December. According to the unofficial final results posted early Wednesday, Leeser accumulated a total of 87,810
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CLICK HERE to see latest Electoral College map for presidential race WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump is vowing to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on the inconclusive election. Trump appeared before supporters at the White House early Wednesday morning and cried foul over the election results, calling the process “a major
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COMPLETE RESULTS: Click here for full election results SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Republican Tony Gonzales has won election to U.S. House in Texas’ 23rd Congressional District. Republicans hung onto the seat left by Rep. Will Hurd, one of the GOP’s most outspoken critics of President Donald Trump. Hurd had endorsed Gonzales, whose victory Tuesday night
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COMPLETE RESULTS: Click here for full election results SANTA FE, New Mexico — Democratic U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján won election Tuesday night to the U.S. Senate in New Mexico. Luján, a six-term congressman from northern New Mexico, defeated Republican former television meteorologist Mark Ronchetti and Libertarian scientist Bob Walsh. Luján rose to the No. 4
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COMPLETE RESULTS: Click here for full election results EL PASO, Texas – City Council District 7 incumbent Henry Rivera crusied to an easy re-election against a political newcomer. Rivera has tallied 12,101 votes or 56.56 percent. Challenger Aaron Montes has 9,293 votes or 43.44 percent. Rivera is a retired police officer who served for more
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COMPLETE RESULTS: Click here for full election results EL PASO, Texas – Retired city employee Miriam “Judy” Gutierrez beat incumbent Alexsandra Annello by nearly 2,000 votes in Council District 2, but will need to go to a runoff to win the seat. With most of the votes counted, Gutierrez has 7,915 votes or 47.65 percent.
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COMPLETE RESULTS: Click here for full election results EL PASO, Texas — After being forced into a runoff in a special election last year, incumbent Cassandra Hernandez emerged as a big winner. Hernandez, in Council District 3, has 11,957 votes or 54.08 percent. She leads her nearest competitor by more than 5,000 votes. Challenger Jose
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EL PASO, Texas – Embattled Council District 4 incumbent Sam Morgan appears headed to a runoff in his bid for re-election. Morgan, who is facing charges of domestic violence against his wife stemming from an arrest more than a year ago, leads with 7,749 votes or 32.09 percent. In second in the crowded field is
Continue Reading COMPLETE RESULTS: Click here for full election results EL PASO, Texas — Democrat Veronica Escobar has won re-election to U.S. House in Texas’ 16th Congressional District. Escobar, who became one of the first two Texas Latinas elected to Congress in 2018, cruised to an easy re-election victory. Escobar had 65% of the votes in the
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COMPLETE RESULTS: Click here for full election results AUSTIN, Texas — President Donald Trump narrowly carried Texas on Tuesday as national results continue to show him and former Vice President Joe Biden in a neck-and-neck race. The Republican incumbent was poised to win Texas’ 38 electoral votes — 52% to 46.6%, based on returns from
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COMPLETE RESULTS: Click here for full election results AUSTIN, Texas — Republican Sen. John Cornyn won re-election Tuesday night in Texas, where Democrats for the second time in two years had momentum and mountains of money to mount a U.S. Senate challenge but not the votes to end decades of losses. Cornyn’s victory came in
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Click here to view the national presidential electoral map SANTA FE, New Mexico — Joe Biden on Tuesday won the presidential contest in New Mexico and captured the state’s five Electoral College votes. Biden’s statewide election victory on Tuesday without a campaign visit to New Mexico extends a string of victories for Democratic presidential candidates in the
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Click Here for Dona Ana County election results Five minutes before the polls closed in Doña Ana County, the government center was practically empty! Still, 82,000 county residents voted in 2020 compared with 70,000 in 2016, according to @dacclerk 🇺🇸🗳 LIVE UPDATES: https://t.co/DlRfl3VKRK #ElectionNight #nmpol pic.twitter.com/lkycVZXdOJ— Kate Bieri (@KateBieri) November 4, 2020 LAS CRUCES, New
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AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday that El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego “failed to do his job” and claimed is “now illegally shutting” down businesses. The governor issued a scathing statement criticizing the county judge’s recent shutdown order on the eve of an important court hearing on a temporary injunction sought
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EL PASO, Texas — El Pasoans who haven’t voted yet are being encouraged by Borderland native R&B superstar Khalid to do so. On Tuesday, he tweeted that his fellow El Pasoans should be sure to vote, but also be careful while doing so because of the surge of Covid-19 infections in the community. El Paso
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC – A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Postal Service to have postal inspectors sweep processing facilities in multiple battleground states, including Texas, for election mail. The order mandated the sweeping process so that no mail-in ballots currently in processing centers go undelivered. The move comes after USPS delivery performance dropped five straight
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Police Department has put up security barricades around its regional command centers on Election Day as part of what appears to be precautions against election-related unrest. “We have contingency plans in place for any major incidents and are prepared to respond accordingly,” said Sgt. Enrique Carrillo, an EPPD
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WASHINGTON, DC — After a campaign marked by rancor and fear, Americans on Tuesday are deciding between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, selecting a leader to steer a nation battered by a surging pandemic that has killed more than 231,000 people, cost millions their jobs and reshaped daily life. Nearly 100 million Americans voted early, and
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas was unusually shaky ground for Republicans on Tuesday as a record surge of voters in America’s biggest red state, typically among the worst for turnout in the U.S., lined up to decide the most unpredictable election here in decades. The high stakes in Texas rippled beyond whether President Donald Trump was genuinely at
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Election Day voting was underway Tuesday in New Mexico where Democrats were striving to maintain control of the state’s delegation to the U.S. Senate and hand Joe Biden a presidential victory, while Republicans are trying to flip a Senate seat and change the course of statewide politics. Polls were to remain open
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso State Representative Joe Moody announced his candidacy for Texas House Speaker Tuesday morning. The Democrat is currently Speaker Pro Tempore of the Texas House of Representatives. “Before the day is done, Democrats will take the Texas House. After the encouragement of a broad array of colleagues around the
Continue Reading DIXVILLE NOTCH, New Hampshire — Former Vice President Joe Biden took all five of the votes cast for president in Dixville Notch, a tiny New Hampshire township along the U.S.-Canada border that the first places in the country to make its presidential preference known. The ballots were cast in the minutes after midnight, becoming the
Continue Reading PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — In the closing hours of a campaign shadowed by a once-in-a-century pandemic, President Donald Trump charged across the nation Monday delivering an incendiary but unsupported allegation that the election is rigged, while Democratic challenger Joe Biden pushed to claim states once seen as safely Republican. America stood at a crossroads. Never before
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STANFORD, California — A study conducted by Stanford University estimates that campaign rallies held by President Donald Trump likely caused 30,000 Covid-19 infections, resulting in 700 deaths. According to the study outlined in the New York Times on Monday, these cases were not specifically from rally attendees – which means that attendees could have spread
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EL PASO, Texas — Thousands of students are getting a taste exercising their civic duty. The El Paso Independent School District is holding a mock election to coincide with the real thing on Nov. 3. “The issues that are most important to me are social injustice and coronavirus pandemic,” said Jalen Martin, who is a
Continue Reading HOUSTON, Texas — A federal judge in Texas rejected a GOP-led challenge Monday seeking to invalidate nearly 127,000 drive-thru ballots cast in the Democratic-leaning Houston area. The lawsuit is a major last-minute challenge to voting rules in closely watched states ahead of the election, in which some officials have made special accommodations amid the coronavirus
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The FBI is investigating the alleged harassment of a Joe Biden campaign bus by motorists displaying Trump 2020 flags, an FBI spokesperson confirmed Sunday. “FBI San Antonio is aware of the incident and investigating,” FBI spokesperson Michelle Lee said. The incident took place in Texas on Friday as the campaign bus
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DOÑA ANA COUNTY, New Mexico — Clashes have occurred in recent days between Republican poll challengers and election officials in Doña Ana County, which is at the center of a congressional swing district race. State Republican Party Chairman Steve Pearce said another GOP challenger was ejected Saturday from a Dona Ana County vote counting facility
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Barack Obama called game. The former President showed he can still get buckets, swishing a corner three-pointer at a Flint, Michigan, gym on Saturday while on the campaign trail for Joe Biden, his former vice president. “That’s what I do,” Obama yells after nailing the three, before lowering his “VOTE” mask and yelling again, “That’s
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