GOP House Hopefuls in New Mexico Tout Trump Love in Debates Republican candidates in a crucial U.S.
Republican candidates in a crucial U.S. House race in southern New Mexico are touting their love of President Donald Trump but little else.
By Associated Press, Wire Service Content?May 15, 2020, at 6:13 p.m.
BY RUSSELL CONTRERAS, Associated Press
RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — Republican candidates in a crucial U.S. House race in southern New Mexico are touting in recent debates their love of President Donald Trump and popular Republican themes around gun rights, oil consumption and building a border wall.
But little else.
Three GOP hopefuls vying to challenge Democratic U.S. Rep. Xochitl Torres Small of Las Cruces repeated in debates this week their unconditional support of Trump and stayed away from offering any new bold proposals.
Instead, in forums that have aired on social media, former state lawmaker Yvette Herrell, oil executive Claire Chase and Las Cruces businessman Chris Mathys attacked Torres Small for voting to impeach Trump and voting to install U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“Xochitl Torres Small presented herself as a moderate but has been anything but,” Chase said Friday during a debate on KWMW AM in Maljamar, New Mexico.
Herrell said Republicans are confident they are flip back the historic GOP-leaning district because of Torres Small’s voting record, which she has compared to liberal firebrand U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
“Xochitl Torres Small doesn’t want to debate us,” said Herrell, who came under criticism for not debating Torres Small in 2018.
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former state lawmaker Yvette Herrell
oil executive Claire Chase
Democratic U.S. Rep. Xochitl Torres Small
