ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham revved up her campaign for reelection in 2022 with an opening rally at an outdoor museum amphitheater that was unsettled by the sound of protests just outside the venue.
Chants, sirens and cries of “lock her up” threatened to drown out a series of speakers at the rally on Thursday. Lujan Grisham has been both praised and lambasted over the past year for a response to the pandemic that has included some of the most stringent public health orders in the nation.
The last incumbent governor to lose reelection in New Mexico was Democrat Bruce King in 1994.