Crime opens political lane for GOP in Democratic New Mexico


              Vice President Kamala Harris uses a map to talk about states where abortion rights are protected during a conversation on reproductive rights with New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham at Keller Hall, in Albuquerque, N.M., Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)
            
              Vice President Kamala Harris, right, along with New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, left, and Dr. Eve Espey, Chairwoman of the University of New Mexico Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, talk about states where abortion rights are protected during a conversation on reproductive rights at Keller Hall, in Albuquerque, N.M., Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)
            
              U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, left, and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, right, greet Vice President Kamala Harris after she landed at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N.M., Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. Harris is in New Mexico to take part in a fundraiser, then she will participate a IN conversation on reproductive rights. ( Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)
            
              FILE - New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announces an executive order aimed at ensuring safe harbor to people seeking abortions or providing abortions at health care facilities within the state, at a news conference in Santa Fe, N.M., on Monday, June 27, 2022. Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, is running for reelection in the Nov. 8, 2022 election. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)
Crime opens political lane for GOP in Democratic New Mexico