{"id":203580,"date":"2016-10-31T21:42:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T03:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=203580"},"modified":"2016-11-01T12:02:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T18:02:11","slug":"trumps-running-mate-to-campaign-wednesday-in-las-cruces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2016\/10\/trumps-running-mate-to-campaign-wednesday-in-las-cruces\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s running mate to campaign Wednesday in Las Cruces"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Mike<\/a>

Gage Skidmore \/ Creative Commons<\/p>

Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence (photo cc info<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s running mate will hold a rally on Wednesday in Las Cruces.<\/p>\n

Mike Pence’s rally is scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Southwest Aviation Inc.<\/a> at the Las Cruces International Airport<\/a>, according to Trump’s campaign website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gates open at noon. Click here<\/a> to RSVP.<\/p>\n

The rally comes days after Trump made his own campaign stop in Albuquerque<\/a> and is further evidence that Trump may think he has a chance of winning New Mexico’s five electoral votes.<\/p>\n

Recent\u00a0polling has\u00a0showed a tightening race in New Mexico and nationwide. An Oct. 24 poll of likely New Mexico voters\u00a0showed Trump cutting Democrat Hillary Clinton\u2019s lead to 5 percentage points here, 45-40 percent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump claimed on Sunday that internal campaign polling has him tied with Clinton in New Mexico.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in the last several days Republicans and\u00a0independents have been cutting into the significant lead in voting turnout<\/a> Democrats had been enjoying in New Mexico.<\/p>\n

Trump’s Sunday rally was his second in New Mexico. He held another in Albuquerque in May<\/a>. Pence has already campaigned three times in New Mexico this year — twice in<\/a> Albuquerque<\/a> and once in Roswell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Clinton and running mate Tim Kaine have not held public campaign rallies in New Mexico this year. Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, however, held a rally in Las Cruces in June<\/a> and campaigned in Northern New Mexico in May<\/a>. Kaine’s wife, Ellen Bernstein, was in Northern New Mexico last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The last presidential or vice presidential candidate to visit the Las Cruces area was Democrat Bernie Sanders, who held a rally in Vado in May<\/a>\u00a0before he lost to Hillary Clinton in the primary.<\/p>\n

This breaking news article has been updated.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Pence’s rally is scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Southwest Aviation Inc. at the Las Cruces International Airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[708,3307,226,116],"class_list":["post-203580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-presidential-race","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}