Democrat Lehland Lehrman and Republican Tom Benavides, who had announced their candidacies for U.S. Senate, failed to file and gave no indication of why they hadn’t collected the signatures to get on the ballot. Republican Bob Cornelius, who had announced his candidacy for the Second Congressional District House seat, announced shortly before Tuesday’s 5 p.m. filing deadline that he was ending his campaign.
In dropping out, Cornelius endorsed Terry Marquardt, one of 28 Democrats and Republicans who did file on Tuesday to run this year for one of
Democrats
• Tom Udall,
Republicans
• Steve Pearce,
• Heather Wilson,
First Congressional District
Democrats
• Martin Heinrich, former
• Michelle Lujan-Grisham, former state health secretary
• Robert Pidcock,
• Rebecca Vigil-Giron, former secretary of state
• Jessica Wolfe, former cabinet aide to Gov. Bill Richardson
Republicans
• Joe Carraro, state senator
• Darren White,
Second Congressional District
Democrats
• Al Kissling, retired Presbyterian pastor
• Bill McCamley,
• Frank McKinnon,
• Harry Teague, former
Republicans
• Aubrey Dunn Jr., rancher and retired banker
• C. Earl Greer, former Sierra County GOP chair
• Terry Marquardt, former state representative
• Monty Newman,
• Greg Sowards, owner of several
• Ed Tinsley, restaurant-chain owner and rancher
Third Congressional District
Democrats
• Jon Adams, attorney
• Ben R. Luján, Public Regulation Commission chairman
• Rudy Martin,
• Harry Montoya,
• Benny Shendo Jr., former cabinet secretary for the state’s Indian Affairs Department
• Don Wiviott, green builder
Republicans
• Marco Gonzales, attorney
• Daniel East, Rio Rancho contractor