EL PASO, Texas — With just days left before Texas votes in the primary election, Michael Bloomberg’s longtime partner Diana Taylor made a campaign stop in El Paso. Taylor visited the El Pasoans Fighting Hunger food bank earlier this week before speaking to a group of local businesswomen in an invite-only lunch at the El
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Tuesday afternoon signed a controversial red-flag gun measure into law that allows courts to order the surrender of firearms from people who appear to pose a danger to themselves or others. She also said any sheriff who doesn’t want to enforce the new law should
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Your Voice, Your Vote: We’re highlighting the race for El Paso County Sheriff with a debate in the ABC-7 studios. Three of the four Democratic candidates vying for the position joined ABC-7: current El Paso Police Sergeant Ron Martin, Canutillo ISD Police Chief Carlos Carrillo and Raul Mendiola who works in security for the Ysleta
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EL PASO, Texas－Democratic presidential front-runner Bernie Sanders was holding four weekend rallies in Texas, one of those in El Paso, ahead of Super Tuesday primary voting in the Lone Star state. The El Paso rally took place Saturday afternoon along Civic Center Plaza at the Abraham Chavez Theatre, which police said hit maximum capacity. Officers
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS, Nevada — ABC News and the Associated Press projected Bernie Sanders as the resounding victor in Nevada’s presidential caucuses on Saturday, cementing his status as the Democrats’ national front-runner amid escalating tensions over whether he’s too liberal to defeat President Donald Trump. The 78-year-old Vermont senator successfully rallied his fiercely loyal base and
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EL PASO, Texas — The candidates for El Paso County District Attorney faced off during a debate in the ABC-7 studios. Four democratic candidates are vying for the seat that will soon be vacated by current District Attorney Jaime Esparza. There are no Republicans in the race , so the winner of the Democratic party
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — A 30-day legislative session in New Mexico that just concluded has produced bills that bolster restrictions on firearms, underwrite college tuition, shore up a pension fund for government workers and expand state oversight of vaping and e-cigarette sales. But a bid to legalize recreational marijuana sales fell flat. Final decisions
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico legislators forged a budget agreement Thursday that increases annual spending on government programs and school districts by more than a half-billion dollars, with new investments in early childhood education and college scholarships in a state afflicted by high rates of childhood poverty. The state House endorsed a $7.6
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AUSTIN, Texas — A narrow majority of Texas voters said the state should accept refugees from other countries who have gone through a security clearance process, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. At the same time, 38% of the state’s voters said the U.S. allows too many people to immigrate into the
Continue Reading Ten years before Ken Starr joined President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team, he was named president of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. It was a new role for Starr, a hard-charging prosecutor known for his work that led to President Bill Clinton’s impeachment in the 1990s. He didn’t have a lot of experience running a
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EL PASO, Texas — A new nationwide Gallup survey has found that nearly six in 10 Americans have lost their confidence in the honesty of U.S. elections. Many say they feel this way because of fears over cybersecurity and foreign interference. El Paso residents had mixed feelings on those concerns. “It kind of does (concern
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Six presidential candidates faced off in Las Vegas on Wednesday night, just days before the Nevada caucuses. The NBC News debate featured the first appearance from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The others on stage were Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. RELATED CONTENT: Takeaways from
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DALLAS< Texas — Everytown for Gun Safety announced Wednesday that it is pouring $8 million into Texas to elect “gun sense” candidates, the gun-control group’s largest election effort ever in the state. “We believe Texas can be the next emerging battleground with gun safety as a tipping point,” Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action,
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The 13th State of the City address was delivered Wednesday by Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima before a noon hour audience at City Hall. He outlined initiatives he would like the city to work on in the months ahead, including creating affordable housing and a county-wide behavorial health district to
Continue Reading LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Michael Bloomberg has qualified for Wednesday’s Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas, paving the way for the former New York mayor’s first appearance on stage with his 2020 rivals. Bloomberg met the Democratic National Committee-mandated polling threshold on Tuesday with a NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist survey finding the former New York mayor at
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – If not for New Mexico State University, the parents of presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg might never have met, married and later given birth to the son who would grow up to become a presidential contender. “Joe was great in academics. So was Anne,” said NMSU Prof. Gene Cunnar, of Pete’s
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Vaping shops and other tobacco retail outlets in New Mexico would be licensed and regulated by the state for the first time, under a proposal headed toward a decisive state House vote. The proposal from Democratic legislators responds to rising rates of vaping among children and young adults. The federal
Continue Reading Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg attacked Bernie Sanders on Monday in a new digital video featuring aggressive and derogatory tweets, memes and videos purportedly posted by the Vermont senator’s online supporters. The nearly minute-long clip, which will not run on television, closes with a bite of Sanders calling for people “who hold different views”
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EL PASO, Texas — A spokesman for the City of El Paso told ABC-7 on Monday that city legal staff will not go after former city Rep. Claudia Ordaz Perez for a possible ethics code violation. That complaint stemmed from discretionary funds used by Ordaz Perez, above the amount allowed by city ordinance. Ordaz Perez
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EL PASO, Texas — It’s your voice, your vote: ABC-7 hosted a debate for El Paso County Commissioner precinct three, which encompasses portions of far east county and the Mission Valley. Four Democratic candidates and one Republican candidate are vying for the seat, currently held by County Commissioner Vincent Perez. The winner of the Democratic
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Two candidates are vying for the Texas House District 76 seat: Former city representative Claudia Ordaz-Perez and Elisa Tamayo. House district 76 covers east-central and south-central El Paso, including the Lower Valley and Cielo Vista. No one from the Republican party is running for that seat, meaning the winner of the
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AUSTIN, Texas — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has doubled his support among Democratic voters in Texas and now leads the race for that party’s presidential nomination in Texas, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. Sanders had the support of 24% of the self-identified Democratic primary voters in the poll, up from 12%
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CAPROCK, New Mexico — A Republican U.S. House candidate in southern New Mexico has just released an ad with her shooting a “red flag” to protest a state gun control bill that’s about to become law. Claire Chase unveiled the online ad where she challenges “Santa Fe liberals” to come and take her firearm. She
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — The Democrat-led New Mexico Legislature approved a red-flag gun law Thursday night with a final vote of the state House, virtually ensuring adoption of new procedures for courts to order the surrender of firearms from people who appear to pose a danger to themselves or others. The House approved the bill on
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — The effort to legalize recreational marijuana in New Mexico is all but doomed for this year after a proposal to do so was rejected by a key state Senate committee. Two Democrats joined Republicans in a 6-4 vote to halt the bill that would have allowed recreational marijuana sales in
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MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire’s presidential primary election Tuesday night, ABC News and the Associated Press projected, narrowly edging moderate rival Pete Buttigieg and scoring the first clear victory in the Democratic Party’s chaotic 2020 nomination fight. In his win, the 78-year-old Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, beat back a strong
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — Democratic legislators in New Mexico pushed forward Tuesday with a red-flag gun proposal, sending the bill toward a decisive House floor vote after a final round of public comment. The Senate-approved bill would allow law enforcement to petition a court for the temporary surrender of guns by people who appear
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DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg won the votes of a tiny New Hampshire community that barely hung onto its tradition of being among the first to cast ballots in the presidential primary. Dixville Notch’s five residents cast their ballots just after the stroke of midnight Tuesday in the
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — A Republican candidate for a crucial U.S. House seat in New Mexico is launching a television advertisement blitz amid a GOP primary where hopefuls are trying to position themselves as the strongest supporters of President Donald Trump. Claire Chase is scheduled Tuesday to release her first ad aimed at portraying
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas – Returning to the Borderland from the Beltway, U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar of El Paso addressed the historic impeachment trial at her monthly town hall meeting. “It was not a surprise – I’m talking about the outcome,” Escobar told ABC-7 on Saturday. “I knew that there were senators who are from very
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