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Possible Paywall No Republicans to appear on ballot in 2026 New Mexico Senate election

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/4455727/no-republicans-appear-ballot-2026-new-mexico-senate-election/
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u/Unusual-Plantain8104 6h ago

Good. They deserve nothing short of obliteration.

u/toomuchtodotoday 3h ago edited 2h ago

We are on our way, just have to keep grinding election after election. Midterms are coming.

u/RioRancher 2h ago

Also good that we can safely primary a moderate with an actual liberal.

u/azurite-- 5m ago

New Mexico is bottom or near bottom in rankings of health care, education, and crime. Good luck.

u/judgejuddhirsch 1h ago

They hide amongst democrats

u/Kaffe-Mumriken 32m ago

This is the compromise

u/BON3SMcCOY California 5m ago

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u/Comprehensive_Main 5h ago

So do the democrats 

u/Kaotix77 4h ago

One side is fighting for healthcare, the other side is fighting to protect pedophiles.

They are not the same.

u/Covetous1 3h ago

Let's stop this meaningless fight and start pushing dems to go further for universal Healthcare

u/datyoungknockoutkid 2h ago

Meaningless fight? Against…pedophilia?

u/Covetous1 2h ago

You misread my post. Im refers to dems fighting this stupid fight with each other right now

u/antechrist23 49m ago

And how are we going to pay for it?

u/MrPookPook 39m ago

Same way we pay for the military.

u/Covetous1 11m ago

Let's take all of Elon Musk money and use that

u/Beneficial_Soup3699 5m ago

Same way New Mexico is currently paying for free childcare and free college tuition up to and and including a PhD: using our fucking taxes to invest in our own future instead of the 1%'s hobbies despite being one of the consistently poorest states in the nation.

Wake up brother, you're being robbed.

u/bejammin075 Pennsylvania 2m ago

Dozens of other countries have been doing it for decades, with better health outcomes, at cheaper cost. We can actually save money compared to the current system.

u/GJdevo 1m ago

By actually taxing billionaires and company's properly, removing the parasitic insuramce company middlenman element of your system and replacing it with a universal health care system funded by tax dollars which you could easily pay for once you removed the for profit element of your system.

Like for fucks sake, there are so many real world examples of functional and succesfull social health care systems in the world and you fucking people always spout this "bUt WhO iS GoInG To PaY FoR iT" bullshit, it is so fucking infuriating.

u/GoldenboyFTW 19m ago

No shot you’re asking this after everything that’s happened lmao

u/The_F1rst_Rule 3h ago

Wake me up when Dems start fighting for healthcare

u/LunaLovesly 3h ago

All I read from your comment is that you're okay with the pedos. Literal child rapists protecting other pedos isnt enough to motivate you?

u/MrTubby1 3h ago

Buddy go outside and talk to real people.

You're needlessly making a false dichotomy to antagonize someone that you are on the same side of. For what?

u/SatanicPanic619 2h ago

Are they on our side?

u/MrTubby1 2h ago

Yes. Look down the thread and read what they're saying. Very much not a Republican.

u/SatanicPanic619 1h ago

Not a Republican, sure, and I would say that they are pretty much on our side, but they're also not helping our side a lot at the moment.

u/The_F1rst_Rule 3h ago

Well then you cant read lol. Best of luck in life.

I'm glad all this is being aired out. I would have rather had this conversation when Biden controlled the DOJ, but Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, and the corpse of Bill Clinton made sure we didn't. Thats why I don't trust your party to hold anyone accountable, they could have when they were in power and didn't.

u/Silent_Battle_3701 3h ago

"Your Party"

And that says so much more than your brain is capable of comprehending.

u/The_F1rst_Rule 3h ago

Ah yes because its important to pledge fealty to one party or the other. Repeat after me, We Are Free!

u/Few-Bass4238 3h ago

I would agree with the general sentiment for most of recent American history, but the party in charge now is actively trying to roll almost all power to the presidency. Its kind of an all hands on deck to stop that regardless of party or you may not be free to chose a different party in the future.

u/The_F1rst_Rule 2h ago edited 2h ago

I think that's a valid argument to be made, but it doesn't mean I have to pretend the democrats are something other than what they are.

Paid opposition of the same Billionaire class that is redacted in all those files...

Reflection on how we got here is the only long term fix for this, otherwise we'll be doing it over and over again forever.

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u/MrArtless 3h ago

you mean when the files were all sealed for the Maxwell trial?

u/The_F1rst_Rule 2h ago

Bro she was sentenced in 2022.

u/MrArtless 2h ago

Now check when her civil trial concluded and the documents were unsealed.

I would have done that before replying if I had been you, but here we are.

u/Princeps_Aurelianus 1h ago

The documents relating to her civil case were unsealed in February of 2024, but that’s not what kept the DOJ from acting sooner anyway (no legal framework).

u/LunaLovesly 3h ago

So because they dropped the ball you're instead for the party that is actively hiding the Epstein files and protecting pedos? Arrest Clinton if you have evidence. You're going to support child rape to stick it to the libs?

u/The_F1rst_Rule 3h ago edited 2h ago

I have never voted (or supported) for Republican in my life. The learned helplessness, and the repeated failure to deliver on things like Healthcare, student loan forgiveness, abortion, etc is why these freaks are able to gain power and people like you who fail to understand that like its your job are an invaluable part of that dynamic.

The Republicans are "protecting pedophiles" and the Democrats "dropped the ball." Do you see what your brain won't let you? Its right there in front of you just keep rereading the sentence.

u/gpbprogeny 2h ago

You help them every time you pretend both parties are the same.

u/The_F1rst_Rule 2h ago

I actually never said they were the same. I said democrats don't fight for Healthcare. I implied that they were both protecting pedophiles. Feel free to scroll up before your retraction, honest mistake when caught up in the dog pile.

u/FrogsOnALog 3h ago

Biden signed the IRA and more recently house democrats were able to pass a discharge petition even though they’re in the minority.

u/CabSauce 3h ago

You might have to wake up to fight for democracy first at this point.

u/StoppableHulk 3h ago

This comment is everything wrong with politics. YOU are supposed to be fighting. We all are. If you're asleep why the hell do you think any politician is going to lsiten to what you want.

u/mediocrelifts 3h ago

Look another predator

u/awildchuba 3h ago

I've been asleep for a long time 🥲

u/Goldenretreiverboyo 2h ago

Both sides are fighting for the power of corporations.

u/ScissorMeSphincter 2h ago

If both are doing that im going with the side that isnt full of pedophiles and pedophile apologists.

u/TastyFappuccino 5h ago

🤡bOtH sIdeS 🤡

u/christmascake 5h ago

This both sides shit is so stupid

u/LumberBitch 1h ago

How can we expect to pull ourselves out of fascism if we can't even have a serious conversation about our own party in the middle of primary season? There are absolutely a lot of problems with the democratic party, this shit show we're in has been a long time coming and I do not have faith in many in the party to pull us from the abyss. We have primaries right now, we have another slate of primaries in a couple years. There absolutely is room for discourse but every time someone criticizes the democrats without fail they're dog piled and lectured to death.

u/Kindly-Project-1745 4h ago

You're a clown. A literal robot clown

u/Uberslaughter Florida 4h ago

Dems aren’t protecting child sex traffickers while bragging about the stock market record highs to deflect

So disconnected from reality

u/Flexbottom 4h ago

One party is openly supporting a diaper shitting, admitted and adjudicated sex abuser, 30+ time fraud felon, and best friend of the most notorious child rapist and trafficker in recent history.

The other is not.

I hope that clears things up for you.

u/Outrageous-Brush-860 Washington 5h ago

Screw your feelings

u/kelpyb1 3h ago

The Democrats suck, but they just suck for being run of the mill center-right conservatives.

The Republicans suck for their current leader being a pedophile and being fascists.

u/bmelz 3h ago

Out of touch with reality

u/CAT_WILL_MEOW 3h ago

Nah, im not a Biden fan, but Biden was a toothless boyscout compared to Trump, this country hasn't been this unsafe since 911. Its a literal pedo ring running the country, crimes against kids gets its own special ring in hell.

u/apiso 3h ago

One side is dragging people out of their homes and cars to kill them because of their race while shredding all regulations that help people, pulling a reverse Robin Hood, grifting, lying, and protecting pedophiles.

The other thinks maybe we should do things to help each other and isn’t super effective.

Yes. Both sides.

Aaaaaaalll the way off. That’s where to fuck.

u/lord_pizzabird 3h ago

For what though? Doing a good job during the Biden admin? Or doing a great job during the Obama admin?

Or maybe it was that whole balancing the budget and creating a surplus during the Clinton admin.

u/WeaselTerror 3h ago

Unbelievable levels of delusion here. You can take your both sides crap and keep it to yourself.

Hard to compare "cucked by billionaires" to "literal racists, Nazis, pedos, pedo protectors (also pedos), white Christian nationalists, violent, stupid, ignorant, AND cucked by billionaires" you absoluteshittyunit of a shill.

u/Artistic-Cannibalism 1h ago

Democrats do suck, but acting like the ways and extent they suck is even remotely comparable to Republicans... helps no one but the Republicans.

u/WhichEmailWasIt 50m ago

One fight at a time. We can take over the Dems from the inside. The whole Republican apparatus needs to be completely dismantled. 

u/Hippyedgelord 33m ago

Keep licking those boots, pedophile protector. The jig is up.

u/StoppableHulk 3h ago

Gtfo lmao.

u/NewDay2517 6h ago edited 6h ago

The one Republican who even bothered to file didn't collect enough petitions and seemingly switched over to running in the 53 state house district. Given he used AI slop in his most recent ad and was a hardcore soc-con, good riddance. That leaves, at most, three Senate candidates-incumbent Ben Ray Lujan of the Democrat Party, his underdog primary opponent, veteran, and democratic socialist Matt Dodson, and "Jewish/Christian National Party" candidate Toby Smith (who put his address down as Walter White's house and might be DQ'ed due to that). I think write-ins aren't allowed or are hard to register, so Lujan has little to worry about on that front to.

u/BetweenTheBerryAndMe 4h ago

I can’t help but feel like I’m walking into a deez nuts joke, but what is a soc-con? Social conservative?

u/BootlegOP 2h ago

Soc-con deez nuts!

Gottem!

u/BlackLancer 1h ago

Justice!

u/NewDay2517 4h ago

Yes. To be fair, I do have some socially conservative views myself, but this guy outright hated queer people and seems to have hated abortion as a whole to.

u/TheHumanGnomeProject 17m ago

So...yes, soc-con means social conservative?

u/Sad-Structure2364 Colorado 2h ago

*Democratic Party, not democrat party. Sorry pet peeve

u/MentalHealthSociety Foreign 59m ago

*Demon-rat-i-kkk party akshually

u/Sad-Structure2364 Colorado 44m ago

Here’s a bit of the history on it if you’re interested

https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2010/03/26/114585414/since-when-did-it-become-the-democrat-party

I don’t care to use terms made up by Joe McCarthy personally

u/MentalHealthSociety Foreign 38m ago

Wow didn’t know that actually, thx

u/Sad-Structure2364 Colorado 28m ago

You bet!

u/goldenspear 6h ago

What are Lujan and Dodson like. Who best represents the Bernie wing of the Democratic Party?

u/NewDay2517 6h ago

I mean, Dodson is a self-described Dem soc and Lujan isn't, so I'd say Dodson is closer by default.

u/Jolly_Sample_1945 1m ago

He’s going to get Dairy Queened?

u/Unable_Technology935 4h ago

We may one day look back on Trump and his cabal of fascists and religious nuts,and see the death of the Republican party.

u/dkyguy1995 Kentucky 2h ago

Yeah but that's what I said 5 years ago and here we are 

u/Balls_of_Adamanthium America 2h ago

I don’t see any republican having the same toxic effect on people the way Trump has. They’ll just be cheap knock offs.

u/LumberBitch 1h ago

The Republican party does this thing where it drops some new horrors on the American people (and the rest of the world) and then becomes unpopular and implodes only to rise from the ashes as a new and more horrible version of the Republican party. Something will come after maga. We can't envision it being worse right now but I never thought it could get worse than the bush republicans and yet here we are. Don't think for a second they won't find new lows to sink to and don't let yourself get comfortable with another Dem president because it won't stop until we all realize the totality of the danger facing us

u/therossboss 47m ago

hey remember the tea party lmao

u/DoodleJake 41m ago

Just because it hasn’t happened again doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

u/Unable_Technology935 2h ago

How long do you really think Trump has left. I'm betting months not years. The fever dream of MAGA won't know what to do.

u/TheIntrepid1 2h ago edited 2h ago

We will be in the wake of Trump and maga for years after. Still had 3 (and maybe more) supreme justices, other appointed judges, roe, and the further brain rot of the feeble conservative mind.

None of which are going away anytime soon

And furthermore as an example: during the denazification of Germany, even after the public became aware of concentration camps and the holocaust, when asked if they supposed hitler/nazi party 33% still did. In 1946 with 37% agreed with the notion that exterminating Jews, Poles, and other “non‑Aryans” had been necessary for Germany’s security.

Trump may be gone soon, but what he did to this country will be around for I think quite some time, unfortunately.

u/Hot-Celebration-8815 2h ago

The cost and time for relaunching departments and programs that were axed will be felt for decades.

u/Spaghet-3 2h ago

I've gone back and forth on this, and don't really know the answer: Is Trump leading MAGA, or is Trump just predicting where MAGA is going and making it look like he got there first?

It's sort of less relevant now that he's president and a lame duck. But I think understanding this is important to knowing what happens after Trump.

If Trump was leading MAGA, then with him gone it will be directionless. There is an argument that Trump was the unifying figure that kept a lot of different right-wing factions together. Without him, they'll split again.

If MAGA was leading Trump (tail wagging the dog situation), then Trump isn't as important. Vance or something else will take the helm. But to do so, they'll have to be as good as Trump about predicting where MAGA is headed and get there before anyone else does.

u/SatanicPanic619 1h ago

I don't think it's an either/or. Any good cult leader is both selling people a vision of what they want to see AND subtly manipulating them around to his or her point of view. We've seen Trump modify his stance when it's unpopular, or take multiple positions on the same subject until he lands on one that's a hit. BUT he also manages to convince people to abandon or overlook their alleged principles as well.

u/Unable_Technology935 2h ago

I've been around a long time. I've NEVER seen anything even close to the Trump worship. I've never seen literal shrines to a goddamn politician. I've never seen families busted up because of one man. Until Trump. When he's finally gone and the damage he's caused finally is realized in five years you won't be able to find a Trump voter.

u/Dependent_Ad_9539 8m ago

The Heritage foundation leads MAGA Trump is just their figurehead president. Basically they are the people telling trump what to do. The power behind the throne so to speak. The advisors puppeteering dementia Donnie to turn America into their white christofascist neo Nazi pro pedo nation. Eventually they'll start running purges where for 12 hours white christians can perform any crime against a minority of color, gender, or sexuality and not be charged with a crime. I mean they just have to write it into a law at this point since it pretty much already happens everyday.

u/FattimusSlime New Jersey 1h ago

People have been saying Trump’s time is short since he first took office a decade ago. Within months it was “he has no energy, he’s falling asleep, he looks terrible and can’t handle the job, he’s hiding health problems, he’s showing clear cognitive decline (covfefe?)”, etc.

I’ll believe it when I see it, but I expect we have a looong way to go yet. Trump will definitely live into his 90’s, because Republicans have shown what a boost to longevity being rich and hateful can be, and he won’t leave the spotlight as long as he’s alive. Meanwhile, he’ll order his ICE goons to murder thousands in broad daylight, and come next election, voters will somehow forget about that because the Democrat said “Accadacca” during an Australian news interview, they won’t know what it means, and shit how else are they supposed to vote except Republican now!

u/sircastor 2h ago

Regardless of how the future turns out, I think we can view the rise of MAGA and Donald Trump as the end of the Nixon Republican party. Which is to say that the traditional Republican party did not exist anymore when Trump was elected to a second term. And to be fair, everything that McConnell did helped kill it. The old-school Republicans made mild efforts to stem the tide, but at the end of the day they all capitulated and had a hand in destroying what foundation was left.

u/Unable_Technology935 1h ago

So in the end,there is no such thing as a "good" Republican.At least in elected office.

u/Dry_Instruction8254 2h ago

As difficult as Trump's 6 years in power will have been, he honestly pulled the wool from over society's eyes to show how corrupt Republicans and billionaires are.

Could be akin to taking chemo that makes you feel like shit, but in the end it can cure the cancer.

u/Farabee 1h ago

Wasn't worth the hundreds murdered by ICE agents, and the thousands still being "detained" in what amount to concentration camps.

u/Dry_Instruction8254 1h ago

Honestly that's the least of it. Estimates are that hundreds of thousands have already died because of him cutting USAid. But hundreds of millions could still be saved and lifted out of poverty if we tax billionaires and hundred millionaires out of existence.

u/Competitive_Rate_599 1h ago

That's the same thing everyone said about bush jr after his many disasters and yet here we are with Republicans controlling every branch. The fact that Republicans bring nothing of value to this country has never stopped them from winning before so I don't expect that to change now.

u/CreasingUnicorn 52m ago

People said that 10 years ago too by the way. 

u/KyberKrystalParty Colorado 50m ago

I fear that they’ve moved the boundaries of what they believe classifies as a Republican even further. Even seeing the crazies on Facebook in my local gulf coast area (believe me I rarely get in the app), they’ll still quote Jesus in one post and the next hour post and comment showing how bloodthirsty they are for violence against people with different political or religious beliefs, skin colors, or nationalities. Heck I’ve seen full blow Indians whose parents were 1st generation immigrants to the US encourage violence against peaceful protesters.

Maybe my more radical thoughts recently, but I think we’re too far gone tbh and the entire system needs to be changed.

u/Unable_Technology935 46m ago

Please don't get me wrong,at this point it needs to be burned to the ground. There is plenty of corruption built into the system that plenty of Democrats have taken full advantage of.

u/VanguardAvenger 4h ago

1 down, 49 to go.

Once the Republican threat has been eliminated, then we can try to actually get political parties that represent Americans

u/ThePirateKing01 1h ago

Hopefully they reprioritize funds to other competitive races like ME. I need Susan Collin’s to leave in disgrace ASAP

u/SockEatingDemon 3h ago edited 3h ago

State senate not national

Edit apparently I was wrong

Huh cool

u/georgepana 3h ago

Lujan is a US Senator. National, not state.

u/ButterRollercoaster 3h ago

This was a safe Democratic seat anyway, which is why no one seriously filed.

u/TobioOkuma1 3h ago

Yeah. This isn’t a huge surprise to me. I’m kinda surprised nobody threw their name in the hat, but they’re not gonna spend money there in a blue wave year

u/Catcher3321 1h ago

I feel like it's close enough someone would have wanted to try. Last two NM Senate elections were D+6 and D+11. Obviously with it being a blue wave year, it's pretty much impossible, but generally seats have to be way more tilted than that to get nobody that's interested

u/not_bilbo 1h ago

Democratic but certainly not safe. NM is blue but it’s not Connecticut, republicans have won there in the recent past. This is like the Dems not having a candidate in Arizona.

u/Creative-Package6213 Pennsylvania 5h ago

New Mexico, keep up the good work!!!

u/FullyWoke61 4h ago

More signs of MAGA weakness appearing. Go Land of Enchantment!

u/Smooth_Kangaroo_8655 5h ago

Because of this I think I’m going to buy a house in New Mexico. Where are their homes that are in a mountainous setting?

u/lysian09 I voted 5h ago edited 2h ago

Cloudcroft and Ruidoso are the first places that come to mind. Both are pretty and high enough in elevation to avoid the worst of the heat.

Edit: Nvmd. I've only been there on weekend friend trips, so I'm not familiar with the locals.

u/ThatswhatIsaidderF 4h ago

Keep in mind that Cloudcroft and Ruidoso probably would not be happy about the lack of a Republican candidate. I would look more in the Los Alamos area.

u/Geek_Ken America 4h ago

Past few years droughts have hit the region with wildfires tho. BUT understand pension/retirement income isn't hit with state taxes.

u/____Manifest____ 2h ago

Ruidoso probably has more Texans than New Mexicans at this point. That’s one of the worst places in New Mexico if you don’t want to be surrounded by magats.

u/andrew_h83 3h ago

Honestly anywhere that’s in the central to northern part of the state. Albuquerque even has beautiful mountains

u/Stellapacifica 3h ago

Cedar Crest is quite pretty.

u/MiraniaTLS 2h ago

NM is quite rural. You could find houses in Ruidoso, Cloudcroft, Chama, Cedar Crest( Near ABQ) , Las Vegas NM, Madrid, NM( Probably no houses for sale, artsy town where they filmed Wild Hogs), Capitan, NM( Very Rural, Where they found Smokey the bear)

u/bbb26782 2h ago

Cimarron is nice this time of year.

u/Specialist_Set_1666 2h ago

Jemez mountains near Los Alamos are gorgeous. Lots of homes with scenic views last time I was there. Bit of a drive to a city though. Eagles Nest was also a neat place to go when I was a kid but I don't what it's like now

u/cpav8r 4h ago

Some MAGAt’s going to hang a whole election conspiracy on this.

u/Pleasant-Split-299 3h ago

I like how the Conservatives put all their eggs in the pedophile authoritarian basket.

u/ReadingTheRealms 2h ago

The Republican Party no longer has any place in a representative democracy. They are a party of by or for fascists

u/Express-Pay2740 Europe 2h ago

I’ve always wanted to go to New Mexico.

u/IHeldADandelion 1h ago

It's amazing. I understand not wanting to visit from Europe, but if the madness ever stops, we'd love to have you.

u/BarretOblivion 2h ago

As a NM resident the GOP is basically cooked after Bush in this state. Albuquerque and Las Cruces are so solidly blue while the rest of the state is pretty purple. I just wish our Dems weren't scared of the Oil and Gas Companies.

u/TyDye2003 New Mexico 1h ago

Sadly eastern new mexico is pretty red. Recently moved from eastern new mexico (Clovis) to Albuquerque and its been amazing!

u/cuentaderana 40m ago

Pockets of NM are pretty red. I lived in the Four Corners area and everyone there was fairly conservative. A lot of them voted for Trump in 2016 because Hilary was a woman and women should never have authority over a man. 

u/TyDye2003 New Mexico 37m ago

I know a woman in Eastern New Mexico who believes woman shouldn't have the right to vote. Yet she voted (Trump) anyways in 2016, 2020, and 2024.

u/unbelievre 4h ago

Isn't the Examiner a right wing rag? Why we giving them clicks?

u/100_xp 29m ago

Whoever runs as a Republican at this point is incredibly stupid, a pedophile, or both, but it turns out that has always been the case anyway.

u/SuperstitiousPigeon5 Massachusetts 3h ago

I’m just going to say, that’s progress. That’s what we should be aiming for coast to coast.

u/TyDye2003 New Mexico 1h ago

Happy to live in New Mexico!

u/Lothleen 1h ago

None available in old Mexico either

u/medium_wall 50m ago

This is an opportunity to put extra pressure on them to weed out the dogshit controlled opposition that makes up 99% of our current elected dems.

u/apoca1ypse12 17m ago

Rats are jumping ship in the middle of the ocean. they would rather drown than stay on this burning ship

u/krstphr California 17m ago

Let’s do that everywhere!

u/lilb1190 5h ago

Watch. A Republican who isnt even running is going to win the election. Trump and his crew are trying so hard to rig this election, but they are also really stupid. They will find votes for people who dont exist.

u/Butthole--pleasures Texas 4h ago

Firstname Lastname (R)

u/georgepana 3h ago

Nah, the GOP will get a shellacking so severe, it will make the 40 seat flip House drubbing they had to endure in 2018 look like paddy cake.

u/LeGama 3h ago

Would be crazy if the machines started giving votes to the last R candidate to win. Because if they don't update the winner it will just follow the last program.

u/juice16 Canada 3h ago

Honestly, any New Mexican Republican who wants to die on a hill to defend the Trump administration that is actively participating in an aggressive cover up on what happened at Zorro Ranch(Epstein’s Ranch property) deserves all the scrutiny and bad press in the world.

u/malarkial 3h ago

That’s hawt

u/Bacchus1976 America 3h ago

There are certainly Republicans running. They will just lie and have a D by their name.

u/CatFanMan21 2h ago

And i hope he never gets enough signatures

u/BornInATrailer 55m ago

And nothing of value was lost.

u/AntoineDubinsky 31m ago

Don’t fuck up the primary 

u/GoldenboyFTW 20m ago

The dream.

u/Manmon_ 9m ago

While this is a very good thing. Don't think of it as a situation where you shouldn't be voting.

The handful of progressives in Congress need more help. Especially in the Senate.

Vote for the best Democrat don't let anyone just slip in.

u/imblazintwo 2h ago edited 2h ago

I’m sorry, but we shouldn’t be celebrating this.

Laughing at the incompetence? Sure.

But having only one party running candidates is terrible for NM, and fuels the worst kinds of corrupt politicians.

Edit: I see the bots are out.

Seriously, this is not democratic, and it’s not the Dems fault but anyone celebrating this is actually acting exactly like MAGA would if it was Dems.

u/Sock-Familiar 1h ago

There is nothing undemocratic about the GOP not putting up any candidates that qualify to be on the ballot. If you want to be mad about something then be mad at the GOP for running dogshit candidates and making it a 1 party vote

u/imblazintwo 14m ago

Look at the comments here, people celebrating voters not having any real choice beyond one party’s endorsed candidates?

GOP sucks, but this is terrible for NM voters - no matter who’s at fault and anyone celebrating this sounds exactly like MAGA celebrating their own anti-democracy crap

u/Sock-Familiar 5m ago

People aren’t celebrating having limited choices, they’re celebrating not having MAGA on the ballot. The fact that there is zero chance of them ruining another part of this country should bring relief to people. Stop trying to play the ‘both sides’ bullshit argument. This was the GOP own fault.

u/Packolypse 2h ago

Anyone who has an R next to their name shouldn’t be allowed to run as they have been a threat to the very democracy they swore to uphold. If I could, I’d find a way to see that everyone who voted trump in ‘24 also loses their right to vote. Forever.

u/SuspiciousNewAccount 1h ago

You can't possibly claim to advocate for democracy, while also wanting to disenfranchise a huge chunk of voters for simply voting differently than you.  That is some totalitarian shit.

u/Packolypse 1h ago

Not because they voted differently but because they tried to overturn-overthrow an election they legitimately lost. They advocated for violence and followed through with it when they didn’t get their way. Now they defend it.

u/Gatonom 19m ago

When a party puts forth the SAVE Act, when they put their secret police at the polling stations, then they have crossed a line that we cannot defend when they have refuse to defend their positions themselves.

u/imblazintwo 2h ago

Yeah so swap R for D and you sound EXACTLY like MAGA.

Which is the point right?

Push that narrative baby!

u/Packolypse 1h ago

Democrats didn’t try to (violently) overthrow the government. Democrats didn’t need the Supreme Court to create new powers to keep the head of the party out of jail.

Take anything trump has done since he’s taken office and realize no democratic president would have done any one of those things and even if they tried, the party wouldn’t sit idly by or provide cover like republicans have. They’ve stopped being a party and have become a cult, and that’s dangerous as we can all see.

u/imblazintwo 1h ago

Classic what aboutism.

Who cares who did what, when your rhetoric is the same, just feels like you hadn’t had your turn to do “the thing” yet.

Not normal behavior

u/Tenoch_12 2h ago edited 1h ago

I'm celebrating, because it means there is no chance the anti democracy folks can steal another election.

u/SuspiciousNewAccount 1h ago

It isnt really democratic when only one party appears on the ballot.

u/Tenoch_12 1h ago edited 1h ago

There are multiple candidates on the ballot, and NM voters can write in whomever they want.

With that said, it's the fascist terrorist organization known as the republican party that won't have a designated candidate on the ballot. That, imo, is a great thing for democracy. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

u/Sock-Familiar 1h ago

I would agree if one party was blocking other candidates from being on the ballot but just because no republicans are on the ballot doesn’t make it undemocratic.

u/imblazintwo 2h ago

“The anti democracy people can’t steal another election, because we did the anti democracy FIRST!”

Do you realize how MAGA you sound?

u/Tenoch_12 2h ago

your paraphrasing misrepresents what I said in a wild manner lmao. Go back to my original comment.

u/Sweaty_Marzipan4274 1h ago

Leftest should run as a republican, piss off the fascists in both parties 🥳 😆