Guv Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico speaks up about weapons, the Hispanic vote, the Trump-Biden face-off, and MAGA-fueled misogyny.
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Michelle Lujan Grisham, guv of New Mexico, speaks in her workplace in Santa Fe in August 2019.
Previously today, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico signed a handful of weapon control expenses in the face of an awful wave of weapon violence in her state that has actually drawn nationwide attention. Lujan Grisham is smack in the middle of some huge patterns in our politics today: the improvement of the southwest, the success of Democrats in border states, and the increase of the female Democratic guv in the age of Donald Trump. We talked with Lujan Grisham about all these things– and a great deal more.
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