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Gabe Vasquez, a Democrat who has represented New Mexico's 2nd congressional district since 2023 after serving on the Las Cruces City Council, seeks re-election in 2026 against Republican Greg Cunningham.
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Gabe Vasquez was born on August 3, 1984, in El Paso, Texas, and was raised in the El Paso, Juárez and Las Cruces border region, spending much of his childhood in both the United States and Mexico.
He grew up in Ciudad Juárez, where he spent time in the television repair shop of his grandfather, Javier Bañuelos. Vasquez attended Montwood High School in El Paso and then New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, earning a Bachelor of Arts in English and journalism in 2008.
In college he was news editor and later editor-in-chief of The Round Up, the university's student-run newspaper.
Gabe Vasquez began his career as business editor of the Las Cruces Bulletin from 2008 to 2011 and later served as executive director of the Las Cruces Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. From 2013 to 2015 he was a field representative for U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich, and he went on to work for the New Mexico Wildlife Federation, the Wilderness Society and, from 2019 to 2021, the Western Conservation Foundation. He served on the Las Cruces City Council from 2017 to 2021.
In the 2022 election Vasquez won New Mexico's 2nd congressional district by 1,350 votes, defeating Republican incumbent Yvette Herrell in a district redrawn after the 2020 census, and he defeated Herrell again in 2024 by 11,032 votes. In the 119th Congress he serves on the Committee on Agriculture and the Committee on Armed Services, and he co-founded the Southwest Caucus.
Gabe Vasquez is seeking a third term in New Mexico's 2nd congressional district, which encapsulates southern and western New Mexico, including Las Cruces, Carlsbad and Alamogordo, along with the southwestern suburbs of Albuquerque.
He was re-elected with 52.1% of the vote in 2024 and was unopposed on the 2026 Democratic primary ballot after Tom Wakely was disqualified. His Republican opponent is Greg Cunningham, a retired police officer who won the Republican primary with 84.5% of the vote.
The general election takes place on November 3, 2026.
