Arizona’s Democrats have nominated Adelita Grijalva, daughter of the late representative Raúl Grijalva, to occupy her old seat in a special September election, Associated Press projects.
Grijalva, former member of the Pima County Supervisors Board, won the special Democratic Democrats on Tuesday ahead of Depa Foxx, a 25 -year -old activist and former state representative Daniel Hernández.
With more than two thirds of the expected votes counted, Grijalva had 62% support, far ahead of Foxx with 20%.
Grijalva, 54, accumulated the support of a variety of powerful democrats chosen, including Arizona Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego and progressive national leaders such as Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT. and the representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Dn.Y.
Both Grijalva and Foxx described themselves as progressives, but fissures arose during the campaign on the issue of generational change. Foxx hit Grijalva for a debate last month, saying that he was not born “on a road” to Congress and has no “inherited surname.”
Foxx also won the support of former vice president of the National Democratic Committee David Hogg’s Pac, leaders we deserve, who aim to support the younger candidates in democratic primaries in this electoral cycle.
Grijalva said in an interview this month that the experience should import more than age.
“It is frustrating for me how the experience looks as a negative,” Grijalva told NBC News, adding: “I am a little surprised that in a Democratic primary, in a party that should really be working to inform people and not spread the wrong information, that was not something for what I was prepared.”
Although Grijalva is older than Foxx, at 54, it will remain younger than more than half of his colleagues in the house if he is chosen.
Before serving at the County Supervisors Board, Grijalva was a member of the Tucson School Board and directed a non -profit youth diversion program.
Raúl Grijalva won 12 terms that represent the area in Congress before dying in March at the age of 77.
Adelita Grijalva will face Republican Daniel Butierez in the special elections of September 23. The district, which covers most of the southern border of Tucson and the State, is very democratic, and former vice president Kamala Harris took him to 22 points in 2024, according to the NBC News decision counter.
