TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Adelita Grijalva wins the US House Special election in Arizona's 7th congressional district, according to the Associated Press (AP) and Decision Desk HQ.
Her opponent Daniel Butierez, Republican nominee, conceded just 15 minutes after results dropped saying he and his supporters "gave it a heck of a fight."
Adelita will be filling the Congressional District 7 (CD7) seat left vacant after her father Rep. Raul Grijalva passed away in March.
She will serve out the remainder of Rep. Raul Grijalva’s term, which is about 10 months.
Adelita Grijalva billed herself as a fighter. She says she’s prepared to fight President Donald Trump over what she says are attacks on equality under the law, attacks on due process of law and free speech.
“Thus far Congress has acted as his rubber stamp, abdicating their Constitutional responsibility as a co-equal branch of Government. But the voters of Southern Arizona just sent the rest of the country a loud message."
She says even with Republicans holding the majority she plans to have an immediate impact.
"We obviously are hoping for the midterms but respectfully I’m showing up and making things happen on day one. So I think there’s an opportunity for us to try to convince people who they need to represent is the people that elected them in their communities and not billionaires and corporations."
She says she’ll fight tariffs which she says are a burden on working families, work to preserve and protect the environment and fight ICE immigration raids.
She says she will work to avoid a budget impasse that would lead to a government shutdown because a shutdown would be such a burden on Federal workers.
