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NM Governor Urges DNC Primary Shift, Cites Latino, Rural Wins
7/11/2026
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- Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham told the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee that New Mexico’s Latino and rural voter success offers a template and asked to move the primary date and rearrange the agenda so she could return to Santa Fe by May 28.
- Members praised the Latino delegation and suggested she speak last.
- The hearing was at the Washington Hilton, site of a recent attempted assassination of President Donald Trump.
