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Former U.S. secretary of the interior (2021 to 2025) and congresswoman, nominated by the Democratic Party for governor of New Mexico in 2026 against Republican Gregg Hull.
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Haaland, a former congresswoman and U.S. interior secretary, has been described as a longtime friend and policy partner of Warren’s.
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HullNew campaign-finance reports reveal a sharp financial divide in New Mexico’s race for governor, with Democrat Deb Haaland raising nearly three times as much as Republican Gregg Hull during the latest reporting period…
HullNew Mexico voters in November will decide who will lead the state’s executive branch now that Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is term limited out.
New Mexico Democratic gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland continued her fundraising dominance over Republican opponent Gregg Hull with fewer than three weeks until the Nov. 3 general election, new campaign reports show.
HullHe said that the media didn’t direct enough attention to his Democratic opponent, Deb Haaland’s acceptance of campaign donations from parties involved with Project Jupiter, the artificial intelligence data center in…
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Debra Anne Haaland was born on December 2, 1960, in Winslow, Arizona, to Mary Toya, a Navy veteran who also worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and John David "Dutch" Haaland, a United States Marine Corps officer. She belongs to the Laguna Pueblo as an enrolled tribal member.
Her family settled in Albuquerque, where she finished Highland High School in 1978. The University of New Mexico awarded her a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1994 and, through its School of Law, a Juris Doctor in Indian law in 2006. She later chaired the Laguna Development Corporation's board.
Haaland was New Mexico's Native American vote director for Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign and the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor of New Mexico in 2014 on the ticket headed by Gary King, which lost to Governor Susana Martinez.
From 2015 to 2017 she chaired the Democratic Party of New Mexico.
In 2018 she won the Democratic primary for New Mexico's 1st congressional district with 40.5% of the vote and the November general election with 59.1%, and she and Sharice Davids of Kansas became the first Native American women elected to Congress. She was reelected in 2020 with 58.2%.
President-elect Joe Biden announced on December 17, 2020, that he would nominate her as Secretary of the Interior. The Senate confirmed her 51 to 40 on March 15, 2021, and she became the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary, holding the office until 2025. As secretary she created a unit within the Bureau of Indian Affairs focused on missing and murdered Native Americans and launched the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative in June 2021.
Haaland announced on January 28, 2025, a campaign for governor of New Mexico to succeed term-limited Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham. In the Democratic primary on June 2, 2026, she defeated Bernalillo County district attorney Sam Bergman with 72% of the vote. Her Republican opponent in the general election of November 3 is Rio Rancho mayor Gregg Hull.
