Santa Fe, NM (AP) – A democratic district attorney in the eye of the Sturm of New Mexico Sturm on crime and accountability on Thursday started his candidacy for the governor, since the national guard is preparing to work to the largest city of the state to augment public security.
District Prosecutor Sam Bregman-The Father of Major League Baseball star Alex Bregman by Boston Red Sox-Wirbes with his registrations for fighting crime in a city that was plagued by weapons, while he grazes for party minister against former US Minister Deb Haaland.
No Republican still stepped down when governor Michelle Lujan Grisham was brought out of office outside the office at the end of next year. The candidates for the governor have a registration period in February 2026.
Persistently high violent crime in Albuquerque and New Mexico far exceed the national average, and the residents have recently been withdrawn by litany fatal shootings with juvenile people.
But many voters are no longer shocked and see it more as a confluence of social challenges that will be inevitable for the next governor, said political analyst Sisto Abeyta, President of Tri-Strategies New Mexico. He pointed out urgent concerns about low-wage jobs, an affordable lack of housing and rare access to addiction and mental health services.
“The economy corresponds to crime, living space corresponds to crime,” he said. “Why are there drug addicts? There is not enough mental health.
Bregman claims that the law enforcement authorities turn the paper against crime and that voters want a governor who can effectively push back against Donald Trump, who has lost three times in New Mexico – but restricted the margin in 2024.
“I think most voters are quite fed up and they are not very receptive to the radical left – and I’m not either,” Bregman told The Associated Press. “Most people want someone who only focuses on the same problems he does at the breakfast table.”
This includes wages, health care, education for their children and whether their neighborhoods are sheltered, he said.
The centrist political playing field arrives days after the conclusion of an electoral law, which enables independent voters to vote in immense party forecasts. About 23% of registered voters in New Mexico – around 310,000 inhabitants – have no party affiliation.
“Many of these younger, non -connected voters are disappointed with the big parties, which is why they reject it to pursue party affiliation,” said the student based in Albuquerque Brian Sanderoff. “Now, suddenly, the state takes a barrier to participate in primary elections.
The law enforcement agencies were productive “jumping stamp for a higher office in New Mexico,” Sanderoff, including the rise of the former Republican district prosecutor Susana Martinez, at two office hours as governors who ended in 2018.
Albuquerques fight against the crime has Bregman-a immense, lying 61-year-old grandfather, who often can be seen in a cowboy hat-to an integral part of local television news. With his appointment as a task force, Lujan Grisham handed over a megaphone to a megaphone about the crime policy after he had appointed him in 2023 as the prosecutor for the successor of Raúl Torrez, now the attorney in general.
The Republicans questioned Bregman’s record on public security on Thursday and argued that the crime had continued to rose leap by leap.
This week Lujan Grisham called the National Guard in an emergency maneuver to support public security at the request of Albuquerques police chief at the request of Albuquerque Route 66 corridor.
As a prosecutor, Bregman said that he had started more lawyers, a team that is devoted to the interface of weapons and violent crimes, which resigned against the pre -judicial release of accused, who have been at risk and secured murder judgments against at least 300 people.
“We started turning the flood when it comes to crimes in general – a long way to go,” said Bregman, a former lawyer for private defenders.
