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Another close race in New Mexico last night wound up subtracting one more seat from Nancy Pelosi’s majority in the House. In New Mexico-02, Democratic Congresswoman Xochitl Torres Small was already in a tight battle with Republican challenger Yvette Herrell, a rematch of the contest Torres Small barely won in 2018. But in the closing days of the race, the subject of fracking, fossil fuels and energy industry jobs reared its head. Torres Small had previously gone on the record saying we needed to back off from our dependency on oil and gas and should reduce subsidies to those industries, but Joe Biden’s comments about eliminating them entirely brought the issue into sharper focus. Exit polling indicates that this was an issue on many people’s minds and Herrell had stressed her commitment to protecting those jobs. When the smoke cleared, Herrell found herself heading for a seat in the House of Representatives.
