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Democrat Adelita Grijalva has gained a particular election in battleground Arizona, securing the congressional seat left vacant by her father’s dying and additional eroding Republicans’ razor-thin Home majority.
The Related Press experiences that Grijalva, a former Pima County supervisor, defeated enterprise proprietor and contractor Daniel Butierez, the Republican nominee, in Tuesday’s election in southern Arizona’s seventh Congressional District.
Grijalva will serve the remaining 15 months of the time period of Raul Grijalva, who died in March following problems from most cancers remedy.
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Arizona Congressional District 7 particular election nominees Republican Daniel Butierez, left, and Democrat Adelita Grijalva take part throughout a televised debate, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025, in Tucson, Ariz. (Kelly Presnell/Arizona Day by day Star through AP)
The youthful Grijalva’s victory was something however a shock within the left-leaning district. Democrats get pleasure from an almost two-to-one voter registration benefit over Republicans within the Hispanic-majority district, which stretches from Yuma to Tucson and contains virtually all the size of the state’s border with Mexico.
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Republicans at the moment management the Home 219-214, with two vacant seats remaining.
Apart from Arizona’s seventh Congressional District, there’s additionally a emptiness in Texas 18th Congressional District, a closely Democrat-dominated district in Houston, following the March dying of Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner. The particular election to fill the seat will likely be held on November 4, which is Election Day 2025.
Tennessee’s seventh Congressional District, a right-leaning seat the place Republican Rep. Mark Inexperienced stepped down in July to take a job within the personal sector, can be at the moment vacant. The particular election to fill the seat will likely be held on December 2.
The late Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva of Arizona’s seventh Congressional District, died in March of problems resulting from most cancers remedy. (Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg through Getty Photos)
Grijalva, thanks partly to her household identify and her help from nationwide progressive rock stars, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, grabbed over 60% of the first vote this summer season in a five-candidate showdown.
Progressive activist and social media influencer Deja Foxx got here in a distant second.
Grijalva, who together with her victory turned Arizona’s first Latina in Congress, focused President Donald Trump as she campaigned,
“In Congress, I decide to battle Trump’s merciless agenda, just like the Massive Ugly Invoice that took away protection from almost 383,000 Arizonans and 142,000 kids,” Grijalva pledged in a social media put up, as she took purpose at Trump, congressional Republicans, and their sweeping home coverage measure that they named the One Massive Lovely Invoice.
Democratic congressional candidate Adelita Grijalva is interviewed in Tuscon, Arizona, on July 15, 2025. (Photograph by Rebecca Noble/Getty Photos)
Grijalva had additionally stated that if she gained, she would instantly signal a discharge petition by Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California and Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky. The petition, which is at the moment only one vote shy of passing, calls on the GOP-controlled Home to vote to induce the Justice Division to launch the information on the late convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Butierez, as he campaigned, had been selling himself because the change candidate in a district managed by Democrats because the seat was created over 20 years in the past.
“That is your likelihood to really get a Consultant who will characterize everybody. In the event you vote we win, when you do not solely the radicals can have illustration,” he wrote on X.
Candidate Daniel Butierez solutions a query throughout the Republican major debate contained in the Arizona Public Media studio in Tucson, Arizona, on June 9, 2025. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Day by day Star through AP)
Butierez, who because the 2024 GOP congressional nominee misplaced to the elder Grijalva whereas Trump narrowly carried the southwestern battleground state on the prime of the poll, simply gained this summer season’s Republican major within the particular election.
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Whereas Trump carried Arizona final 12 months after dropping it in 2020, 2024 Democratic presidential nominee and then-Vice President Kamala Harris gained the district by 23 factors.
Democratic Nationwide Committee chair Ken Martin, in an announcement after the race was known as, stated that “Rep.-elect Grijalva gained a hard-fought race. Now, Arizonans can have a fighter of their nook who will stand as much as Trump on behalf of households who wish to see actual management in Washington.”
