LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Democratic U.S. Rep. Xochitl Torres Small is maintaining a money edge in a critical U.S. House race in southern New Mexico that Republicans hope to recapture. Federal campaign records show the Las Cruces Democrat raised nearly $796,000 from mid-May to June 30 and had $3.9 million cash-on-hand. Her campaign coffer has more
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EL PASO, Texas — With coronavirus numbers continuing to climb in the Borderland, ABC-7 asked the challengers vying for El Paso Mayor Dee Margo’s seat how they thought the incumbent was handling the pandemic situation thus far. Attorney Vernoica Carbajal said the pandemic would be her top concern as mayor: “The city has failed to make
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AUSTIN, Texas — While local health officials have the authority to keep school districts closed for in-person instruction through the fall, Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a letter to schools Friday that private religious schools are free to decide for themselves whether to reopen. Last week, the state’s education agency released an order requiring schools to open their
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In the summer of 2016, Donald Trump was trailing in the polls. With time running out, he changed up his campaign leadership team, though not his own mercurial behavior. Four years later, and in the midst of another summer slump, Trump is hoping a similar campaign shakeup will help put him on
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HOUSTON, Texas — As the number of coronavirus cases in Texas continues to rise and hospitals grow more crowded, Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday evening there is no statewide shutdown looming. Abbott said last week that if the spread of the virus didn’t slow that “the next step would have to be a lockdown.” But in Houston television interviews,
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — In the summer of 2016, Donald Trump was trailing in the polls. With time running out, he changed up his campaign leadership team, though not his own mercurial behavior. Four years later, and in the midst of another summer slump, Trump is hoping a similar campaign shakeup will help put him on
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CLICK HERE for El Paso County 2020 Runoff Election Results EL PASO, Texas — Yvonne Rosales defeated James Montoya Tuesday night in the Democratic runoff to become El Paso’s next district attorney. Rosales’ victory over Montoya in the runoff came after the pair were the top two finishers in the four-candidate March Democratic primary. She
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CLICK HERE for El Paso County 2020 Runoff Election Results EL PASO, Texas – A two-term El Paso County Commissioner lost to the chairwoman of the local Democratic Party in final results late Tuesday night in a runoff for the county commission precinct three seat. Vince Perez, who has represented the Lower Valley and parts
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NEW YORK, NY — Kanye West’s run for the 2020 presidency is reportedly over just as quickly as it started. Less than two weeks after the July 4th announcement of the 43-year-old rapper tweeted intentions to campaign for the White House, New York Magazine’s Intelligencer reports that he’s withdrawn his bid. Steve Kramer, a member of the Yeezy designer’s campaign
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CLICK HERE for El Paso County 2020 Runoff Election Results Scroll down below to get all of Texas’ election results of the 2020 runoff races for U.S. Senate, U.S. House and the Texas Legislature.
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CLICK HERE for Texas 2020 Runoff Election Results AUSTIN, Texas — Texas’ MJ Hegar won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, the Associated Press projected Tuesday night, in a primary runoff that was postponed months over fears of the coronavirus, only to be held as the outbreak is worse than ever. “I am humbled by
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WASHINGTON, DC — “A debacle” is what Texas Republican Congressman Will Hurd is afraid of as schools get closer to reopening. While Texas voters were deciding a GOP primary runoff Tuesday night to to determine who will succeed Hurd, he was pushing back against the leader of his own party’s urging to get school kids
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CLICK HERE for El Paso County 2020 Runoff Election Results EL PASO, Texas — A runoff race to determine who would preside over the 388th District Court, which has the power to determine outcomes in cases such as divorces, child custody and protective orders, was decided by El Paso voters Tuesday night in a race
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AUSTIN, Texas — President Donald Trump’s former White House physician won the Republican nomination for a U.S. House seat in Texas on Tuesday in a primary runoff election that unfolded amid an alarming spread of the coronavirus across the state. Ronny Jackson, a retired Navy rear admiral, defeated Josh Winegarner in a primary runoff in
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — A U.S. Senate primary race in Texas overshadowed by an alarming resurgence of the coronavirus came down to a runoff Tuesday between two Democrats trying to seize on what their party sees as a new opening in America’s biggest red state. Wearing masks and trying to keep their distance, voters headed out
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OTERO COUNTY, New Mexico — The New Mexico group, Cowboys for Trump, must register as a political committee in the state, and pay $7,600 in fines for not filing expenditure reports, an arbitrator has ruled. “Should your client fail to comply with the requirements of the Arbitration Order, I will proceed with a referral to
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Restaurant owners and members of the service industry across Las Cruces on Monday afternoon protested the New Mexico governor’s decision to close dining rooms. “We are standing for restaurants’ rights to keep their employees employed and their right to do business,” said Marci Dickerson, who organized the protest at the
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EL PASO, Texas — It’s an organization geared towards simplifying the process of educating voters about who is running in local, state and national elections. It’s allowing you, the voter, to gain knowledge on content about the candidates running and the information is written in conversational text, making it easy to ‘digest’ according to one
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham called it “a tough pill to swallow for many New Mexicans” as she rolled back the state’s re-opening because of a significant uptick in coronavirus spread. Lujan Grisham announced the below-listed measures on Thursday, citing accelerating rates of infection across large expanses of the state including
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico will require that all state and local police officers wear body cameras in response to concern about excessive use of force by law enforcement, under a bill signed Wednesday by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. The reforms apply to all local and state law enforcement officers with the exception
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HOUSTON, Texas — Houston’s mayor on Wednesday canceled the Texas Republican Party’s in-person convention, saying the spread of the coronavirus made it impossible to hold the event as scheduled. Mayor Sylvester Turner said that the city’s lawyers exercised provisions in the contract that the Texas GOP signed to rent the downtown convention center for a
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — It will be up to the New Mexico Supreme Court to decide what authority the state has to enforce certain provisions of the public health orders that have stemmed from the coronavirus pandemic. Arguments will be presented during an Aug. 4 remote hearing. About a dozen business owners and companies sued the
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EL PASO, Texas — Former El Paso congressman and prominent Texas Democrat Beto O’Rourke called on Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to resign, saying his handling of the coronavirus pandemic to date has been “pathetic.” O’Rourke made his comments in a Monday night twitter post following an Abbott interview with a Beaumont TV station in which
Continue Reading LOS ANGELES, California — It’s unclear whether he’s consulted with his friend Donald Trump, but rapper Kanye West has announced he’s ready to unseat the Republican president. “We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future,” West wrote on Twitter Saturday night. “I am running for president of the
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MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL, South Dakota — At the foot of Mount Rushmore on the eve of Independence Day, President Donald Trump made a direct appeal to disaffected white voters four months before Election Day, accusing protesters who have pushed for racial justice of engaging in a “merciless campaign to wipe out our history.” The
Continue Reading AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott issued a nearly statewide mask mandate Thursday as Texas scrambles to get its coronavirus surge under control. Abbott, who had pushed Texas’ aggressive reopening of the state economy in May, had previously said the government could not order individuals to wear masks. His prior virus-related orders had also undercut efforts by
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AUSTIN, Texas — President Donald Trump would beat former Vice President Joe Biden in Texas by 4 percentage points if the election were held today, according to a new poll from the University of Texas and the Texas Politics Project. The Republican incumbent’s narrow lead four months before the election suggests Texas, a state where
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said there will now be more “aggressive enforcement” of the state’s public health orders, including individual fines for not wearing masks and quarantines for those traveling into the state. The governor on Wednesday said the steps were necessary to rein in the rising coronavirus
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Watch the latest video at foxnews.com AUSTIN, Texas — Despite Texas’ surge of new Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said that he doesn’t need the advice of the nation’s top infectious disease doctor, Anthony Fauci. John Wittman, the chief spokesman for Gov. Greg Abbott, didn’t immediately respond to questions from ABC-7 about whether the
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed Tuesday a budget solvency plan seeking to mend a multi-billion-dollar deficit by scaling back spending increases. But the Democrat vetoed Tuesday some cuts to public education and other areas. State government finances are reeling from the economic fallout of the coronavirus epidemic and
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