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Heath Haussamen \/ NMPolitics.net<\/p>
Gov. Susana Martinez<\/p><\/div>\n
Too late for that, but might she run for U.S. Senate?<\/p>\n
“Why would I want to be one of 100?” she said\u00a0Thursday<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n What about becoming a federal judge?<\/p>\n Boring, the governor replied.<\/p>\n At the end of a press conference in her cabinet room, Martinez invited reporters to toss out rumors about her next political move and proceeded to knock down one idea after another, seeming eager to address theories that have run rampant but leaving unanswered a big question that looms over New Mexico politics.<\/p>\n The Republican’s political prospects were particularly bright just a few years ago. She led the Republican Governors Association and seemed to be just the woman the party needed to keep from working itself into a corner as a party for white men. But that was before the ascent of Donald Trump and a slide in her own approval ratings.<\/p>\n Martinez openly sparred with the man who would become president, though she has since been more conciliatory.<\/p>\n And political observers have come to interpret just about anything the governor does as a maneuver towards some sort of future political — or at least public — office.<\/p>\n