Before the 2022 midterm elections, New Mexico’s 14th House of Representatives District covered a large chunk of Albuquerque southwest of the Rio Grande. The district backed Joe Biden by a 40-point margin in 2020 — and that was before its boundaries were redrawn to shift northward, creeping closer to downtown, where Biden’s margins were even wider.
It is not surprising, then, that a Democrat won November’s state House race by a wide margin. Miguel Garcia, who has represented the 14th for more than a decade, earned about 74 percent of the vote, easily dispatching his Republican challenger. And that was that.
At least, in a perfect world.
In this world, however, Garcia’s opponent refused to concede, no matter how irrelevant such a demonstration might be to the results. When Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the 2024 Republican nomination a week later, that opponent, Republican Solomon Peña, quickly endorsed the former president. After all, as Peña pointed out on Twitter, both he and Trump rejected the idea that their losses were legitimate. Beyond Peña’s pro-Trump regalia, he shared the former president’s uninterest in recognizing the results of a democratic election when those results weren’t what was desired.
Trump just announced for 2024. I stand with him. I never conceded my HD 14 race. Now researching my options. pic.twitter.com/sKVHhxG9Vq
— Solomon Pena for NM (@SolomonPena2022) November 16, 2022
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