{"id":3352,"date":"2008-06-04T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/06\/ap-declares-pearce-winner-of-gop-senate-primary\/"},"modified":"2008-06-04T02:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T08:50:00","slug":"ap-declares-pearce-winner-of-gop-senate-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/06\/ap-declares-pearce-winner-of-gop-senate-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"AP declares Pearce winner of GOP Senate primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SEZXkCZosHI\/AAAAAAAAF-g\/EVeEMpOnkuw\/s1600-h\/Pearce,+Steve.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SEZXkCZosHI\/AAAAAAAAF-g\/EVeEMpOnkuw\/s200\/Pearce,+Steve.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207946295731859570\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/breaking\/apsenrace06-04-08.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a> is declaring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleforpearce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a> the winner of the Republican U.S. Senate primary.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With 99 percent of precincts statewide reporting, Pearce has about 51 percent of the vote to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherforsenate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson\u2019s<\/a> 49 percent, the news service is reporting. Pearce is leading by about 2,900 votes &#8212; 56,738 to 53,827.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Neither campaign could immediately be reached for comment. The AP announcement came at about 2 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> didn\u2019t concede the race and Pearce didn\u2019t declare victory during speeches they gave late Tuesday. <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> said she was encouraged by the results and said the race appeared to be a \u201cdead heat,\u201d according to an earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/ci_9471810\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Pearce, meanwhile, said he was \u201cexcited\u201d because the polls \u201care strong coming in.\u201d He described the election as a \u201chorse race,\u201d but said he was confident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press is declaring Steve Pearce the winner of the Republican U.S. Senate primary. With 99 percent of precincts statewide reporting, Pearce has about 51 percent of the vote to Heather Wilson\u2019s 49 percent, the news service is reporting. Pearce is leading by about 2,900 votes &#8212; 56,738 to 53,827. Neither campaign could immediately [&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-3352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352","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=3352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}