{"id":2987,"date":"2008-03-15T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/wilson-says-momentum-has-shifted-her-way\/"},"modified":"2008-03-15T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T22:31:00","slug":"wilson-says-momentum-has-shifted-her-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/wilson-says-momentum-has-shifted-her-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson says momentum has shifted her way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R9xOPmameWI\/AAAAAAAAFPY\/2VOxvLo27N4\/s1600-h\/Wilson,+Heather.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R9xOPmameWI\/AAAAAAAAFPY\/2VOxvLo27N4\/s200\/Wilson,+Heather.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178099701486352738\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherforsenate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson<\/a> called losing today\u2019s U.S. Senate Republican preprimary nominating convention by nine points today a \u201cgreat success,\u201d saying she did better than anyone \u2013 including opponent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleforpearce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a> \u2013 expected.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cNew Mexico Republicans understand that we must nominate a commonsense conservative who can win in November,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said in a news release. \u201cThat\u2019s why today we proved the pundits and my opponent wrong. We picked up more support than anyone had predicted. The momentum has shifted our way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Pearce finished with 54.5 percent of the vote to <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s 45.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWe were definitely happy with today\u2019s results,\u201d said Chris Collins, <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s campaign manager. \u201cOur opponent clearly thought he was going to score a huge victory here today, and it turned out to be the other way around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Collins was referring to a Pearce campaign news release sent out Feb. 26 with the headline \u201cPearce on the Verge of a Huge Victory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThe convention held on March 15th will shock the establishment in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Washington<\/st1:city>,  <st1:state st=\"on\">D.C.<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> and open up new doors of support for Steve Pearce and his campaign for the U.S. Senate,\u201d the Pearce release stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Collins said <st1:city st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:city> received strong support from rural counties in the north and south as well as her home <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placetype st=\"on\">county<\/st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st=\"on\">Bernalillo<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWe\u2019ve built a strong, statewide organization made up of people who are working hard to elect a commonsense conservative to the United States Senate,\u201d he said. \u201cWe believe the momentum from our win today will carry us through to the primary election in June.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Wilson called losing today\u2019s U.S. Senate Republican preprimary nominating convention by nine points today a \u201cgreat success,\u201d saying she did better than anyone \u2013 including opponent Steve Pearce \u2013 expected. \u201cNew Mexico Republicans understand that we must nominate a commonsense conservative who can win in November,\u201d Wilson said in a news release. \u201cThat\u2019s why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987","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=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}