![Morgan Lee FILE - Republican political contender Steve Jones, of Ruidoso, N.M., submits a petition to run for the Republican nomination in hope of challenging Democratic U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury, of Albuquerque, Feb. 6, 2024, in Santa Fe, N.M. Republicans Louie Sanchez and Jones are competing to take on incumbent Stansbury in Congressional District 1, an Albuquerque-based district that leans Democrat. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/f61a6993893348c19adaaeabbb955ef9/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
FILE - Republican political contender Steve Jones, of Ruidoso, N.M., submits a petition to run for the Republican nomination in hope of challenging Democratic U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury, of Albuquerque, Feb. 6, 2024, in Santa Fe, N.M. Republicans Louie Sanchez and Jones are competing to take on incumbent Stansbury in Congressional District 1, an Albuquerque-based district that leans Democrat. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)
![Susan Montoya Bryan A voter casts his ballot at a polling location in Bernalillo, N.M., on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. New Mexico voters are picking their partisan favorites in Tuesday's primary to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/3933bc0b1f834d35b2ebd7bb2d2df5cc/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
A voter casts his ballot at a polling location in Bernalillo, N.M., on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. New Mexico voters are picking their partisan favorites in Tuesday's primary to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
![Morgan Lee FILE - New Mexico state Rep. Larry Scott, R-Hobbs, attends a legislative committee hearing, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, in Santa Fe, N.M. New Mexico voters are picking their partisan favorites in the state's primary, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/c430af3c4115443ba580cf8602b06a04/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
FILE - New Mexico state Rep. Larry Scott, R-Hobbs, attends a legislative committee hearing, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, in Santa Fe, N.M. New Mexico voters are picking their partisan favorites in the state's primary, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)
![Luis Sanchez Saturno FILE - Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto, D-Albuquerque, discusses a bill during a Senate Public Affair Committee meeting at the State Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M., Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016. New Mexico voters are picking their partisan favorites in the state's primary, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November. (Luis Sanchez Saturno/Santa Fe New Mexican via AP, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/b868d424418448caa3d0470ac71d2833/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
FILE - Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto, D-Albuquerque, discusses a bill during a Senate Public Affair Committee meeting at the State Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M., Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016. New Mexico voters are picking their partisan favorites in the state's primary, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November. (Luis Sanchez Saturno/Santa Fe New Mexican via AP, File)
![Morgan Lee FILE - New Mexico state Sen. Shannon Pinto, D-Tohatchi, a member of the Navajo Nation, listens during the opening day of a 30-day legislative session in the House of Representatives in Santa Fe, N.M., Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. New Mexico voters are picking their partisan favorites in the state's primary, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee,File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/adaf19bd949c4a3d94badd5668ccb979/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
FILE - New Mexico state Sen. Shannon Pinto, D-Tohatchi, a member of the Navajo Nation, listens during the opening day of a 30-day legislative session in the House of Representatives in Santa Fe, N.M., Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. New Mexico voters are picking their partisan favorites in the state's primary, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee,File)
![Morgan Lee Political campaign supporters greet voters as they turn into a polling location in Santa Fe, N.M., Tuesday, June 4, 2024. New Mexico voters were picking their partisan favorites in the state's primary election to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/630e5771e02d4fef8fd9e5f687f07ec6/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Political campaign supporters greet voters as they turn into a polling location in Santa Fe, N.M., Tuesday, June 4, 2024. New Mexico voters were picking their partisan favorites in the state's primary election to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
![Jon Austria Forest Williams fills out his ballot at an election center in Albuquerque, N.M., on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (Jon Austria/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/10423e5e31ad465db3d1efe5ecc83970/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Forest Williams fills out his ballot at an election center in Albuquerque, N.M., on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (Jon Austria/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)
![Morgan Lee Political campaign supporters greet voters as they turn into a polling location in Santa Fe, N.M., Tuesday, June 4, 2024. New Mexico voters were picking their partisan favorites in the state's primary election to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/1a61589f05fa41a19ce6bc8ba0855af3/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Political campaign supporters greet voters as they turn into a polling location in Santa Fe, N.M., Tuesday, June 4, 2024. New Mexico voters were picking their partisan favorites in the state's primary election to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
![Chancey Bush Second Judicial District Attorney Sam Bregman, right, greets his applauding supporters during a celebratory watch party at Hotel Andaluz in Downtown Albuquerque, N.M., Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Bregman, an appointee of the governor, ran successfully for the Democratic nomination, defeating Damon Martinez, who served as U.S. Attorney for New Mexico under President Barack Obama. (Chancey Bush/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/df2cacd415274a7da95af164b1d24dcd/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Second Judicial District Attorney Sam Bregman, right, greets his applauding supporters during a celebratory watch party at Hotel Andaluz in Downtown Albuquerque, N.M., Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Bregman, an appointee of the governor, ran successfully for the Democratic nomination, defeating Damon Martinez, who served as U.S. Attorney for New Mexico under President Barack Obama. (Chancey Bush/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)
![Chancey Bush Cecelia Ammon fills out her ballot on primary election day at the Central Mercado in Southeast Albuquerque, N.M., on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (Chancey Bush/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/9742e0fa4703437bb9bd97522dcf270c/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Cecelia Ammon fills out her ballot on primary election day at the Central Mercado in Southeast Albuquerque, N.M., on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (Chancey Bush/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)
![Chancey Bush Janet Harman, with Vote Uncommitted New Mexico, holds a sign outside the Daskalos Center, urging Democrats to vote "uncommitted" in the June 4 primary election, in Northeast Albuquerque, N.M., on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (Chancey Bush/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/f452c24597e3407eaa62d31e4f25d7d4/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Janet Harman, with Vote Uncommitted New Mexico, holds a sign outside the Daskalos Center, urging Democrats to vote "uncommitted" in the June 4 primary election, in Northeast Albuquerque, N.M., on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (Chancey Bush/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)
![Susan Montoya Bryan Voters check in with poll workers at a voting location in Bernalillo, N.M., on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. New Mexico voters are picking their partisan favorites in Tuesday's primary to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/ac9617655a8749fdb491ea2d1185dc3a/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Voters check in with poll workers at a voting location in Bernalillo, N.M., on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. New Mexico voters are picking their partisan favorites in Tuesday's primary to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
![Jim Rassol FILE - Audrey Trujillo, right, candidate for New Mexico Secretary of State, attends a conference on conspiracy theories about voting machines and discredited claims about the 2020 presidential election, at a hotel in West Palm Beach, Fla., Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022. New Mexico voters are picking their partisan favorites in the state's primary, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November. (AP Photo/Jim Rassol, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/59dc6ce8adea407da2f634076a2847e3/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
FILE - Audrey Trujillo, right, candidate for New Mexico Secretary of State, attends a conference on conspiracy theories about voting machines and discredited claims about the 2020 presidential election, at a hotel in West Palm Beach, Fla., Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022. New Mexico voters are picking their partisan favorites in the state's primary, Tuesday, June 4, 2024, to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November. (AP Photo/Jim Rassol, File)
![Susan Montoya Bryan Jeff Van Der Mey displays his voting sticker after he and his wife Pat Van Der Mey cast their ballots in Bernalillo, N.M., on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/be9392febe594e64b11324f6833004fb/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Jeff Van Der Mey displays his voting sticker after he and his wife Pat Van Der Mey cast their ballots in Bernalillo, N.M., on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
![Jon Austria Poll workers help voters at an election center at the Holly Plaza Shopping Center in Albuquerque, N.M., on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (Jon Austria/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/0506c654869045458671d8a6a78be11a/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Poll workers help voters at an election center at the Holly Plaza Shopping Center in Albuquerque, N.M., on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (Jon Austria/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)
![Jon Austria Brenda Wilvert, of Sandia Park, casts her ballot at Tijeras City Hall in Tijeras, N.M., on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (Jon Austria/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/fa768442aca14ac49276a335e69f1803/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Brenda Wilvert, of Sandia Park, casts her ballot at Tijeras City Hall in Tijeras, N.M., on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (Jon Austria/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)
![Susan Montoya Bryan A voter submits his ballot in Bernalillo, N.M., on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. New Mexico voters are picking their partisan favorites in Tuesday's primary to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/dcb48a9d53ac48a2817fc64ae7967f86/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
A voter submits his ballot in Bernalillo, N.M., on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. New Mexico voters are picking their partisan favorites in Tuesday's primary to reshape a Democratic-led Legislature, with all 112 seats up for election in November. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)