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Marg Elliston, chair of the Democratic Party of New Mexico, lauded the party’s recent electoral wins and sought to prepare local party activists for 2020 during a visit to Roswell recently. Last year, she was elected chair of the state party. Michelle Lujan Grisham — many are long-sought legislative goals by progressives. New Mexico has demonstrated its Democratic leanings in recent presidential elections, with the party’s nominee carrying the state’s five electoral votes in five of the last six presidential elections. Elliston said she talked recently in Taos with a political scientist who described the state as not blue or red, but “violet.” Even within the party ranks, there is not unanimity. Unlike members of the House, the state Senate is only up for re-election every four years. Part of the diversity of opinion within the party and state politically, is between urban and rural areas. State Democrats in 2018 helped the Chaves County party invest in a campaign headquarters and sent volunteers to help energize voters. Democrats did not field a candidate in any of the state legislative or judicial races in Chaves County. The state party will be working with the county parties to try to encourage people to run in those areas that have been neglected by Democrats.

"It is unacceptable that, after Special Counsel Mueller spent 22 months meticulously uncovering this evidence, Attorney General Barr made a decision not to charge the President in under 48 hours. The Attorney General did so without even interviewing the President. His unsolicited, open memorandum to the Department of Justice, suggesting that the obstruction investigation was ‘fatally misconceived,’ calls into question his objectivity on this point in particular. "Although we have confidence that Special Counsel Mueller made the right prosecutorial judgement in these two specific areas—notwithstanding the very public evidence of Trump campaign contact with and willingness to receive support from Russian agents—it will be vital for the country and the Congress to evaluate the full body of evidence collected by the Special Counsel, including all information gathered of a counterintelligence nature. "The only information the Congress and the American people have received regarding this investigation is the Attorney General’s own work product. The Special Counsel’s Report should be allowed to speak for itself, and Congress must have the opportunity to evaluate the underlying evidence. "These shortcomings in today’s letter are the very reason our nation has a system of separation of powers. We cannot simply rely on what may be a partisan interpretation of facts uncovered during the course of a 22-month review of possible wrongdoing by the President. "The American people deserve to see the facts and judge the President’s actions for themselves. "Earlier this month, the House passed a resolution calling for the release of the Special Counsel’s report by a vote of 420-0.

Chairman Tom Perez on Sunday defended the Democratic National Committee’s decision to sue Russia, WikiLeaks and the Trump campaign over Russian election interference, saying the DNC was “protecting our democracy” and could “walk and chew gum” when it came to keeping its focus on the midterm elections. “So funny, the Democrats have sued the Republicans for Winning,” he wrote on Saturday. “Now he [sic] R’s counter and force them to turn over a treasure trove of material, including Servers and Emails!” It was unclear why Republicans would sue to obtain Democratic party emails, many of which are already public owing to Russia-directed hacking that began in April 2016. In January 2016 testimony about an FBI investigation of cyber-attacks including on the DNC, Comey said Democrats had not turned over computer servers but substituted a review of the system performed by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. It’s not trial by tweet … this is going to be a court where facts matter and justice is served Tom Perez Trump disagrees. Responding to a claim by Trump 2020 director Brad Parscale that the suit was merely a fundraising ploy by a “desperate, dysfunctional and nearly insolvent Democratic party,” Perez told NBC’s Meet the Press: “Those are almost the precise quotes we heard from the Nixon campaign in 1972.” In that year, Democrats sued the president’s re-election committee for $1m over the Watergate break-in. Trump has denied collusion or obstruction of justice and called all investigations into Russian election interference a “witch hunt”. He did so again on Sunday afternoon. His campaign, meanwhile, sent out a fundraising email that called the DNC lawsuit an attempt “to keep the Russia witch hunt going and their bankrupt party alive”. Read more The president also tweeted at length over the weekend about New York Times coverage of the plight of Michael Cohen, his personal attorney, whose office, hotel room and home were raided by federal authorities last week.