ALBUQUERQUE, NM — Yesterday the Albuquerque Journal published an inside look into Senator Martin Heinrich’s campaign for re-election, highlighting his fight to lower costs for New Mexico families, address gun violence and keep communities safe, and continue to diversify the state’s economy to support more good-paying jobs. Excerpts are below, read the full article here.

“Right now, I believe [the Senate is] the place that I can be most helpful to the state of New Mexico, and I find enormous meaning in public service,” said Heinrich, 52.

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“I think I’ve built a record of being very effective at investing in the things that New Mexico does well — our bases, our national labs, energy — and I think that I can continue to really deliver very meaningful outcomes for a state that I love,” Heinrich said.

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His first campaign ad of the year aired earlier this month, with a focus on Heinrich’s father and the increased cost of living … Heinrich’s dad, Pete Heinrich, was a lineman, and the ad emphasizes that blue-collar background, saying Heinrich is “fighting to raise wages” and lower the cost of energy, groceries and prescription drugs.

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Heinrich often touts his identity as a hunter and gun owner, and the senator wants to continue working on gun safety … [He] said the 2022 passage of the bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which expanded background check requirements, added new criminal offenses and funded programs to address gun violence, is one of the things he is most proud of for its impact on gun violence and gun trafficking.

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Heinrich describes himself as ardently pro-choice and has recently focused on legislation that would protect access to in vitro fertilization. Heinrich said that while there are not the votes to do it today, he would support codifying the decision in Roe v. Wade into federal law.

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The biggest issue facing New Mexico in the coming years is the need to diversify the economy, he said. “We should be leading so that we diversify our economy before those changes hit us in our tax base. That’s the difference between Nella Domenici and I. She would like to cater to the politics of that rather than lead us into the future so that the impact of those changes is not devastating to the state of New Mexico.”

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