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'This tired New America bit again?': New Mexico governor claps back at Trump's demand to rename her state

'This tired New America bit again?': New Mexico governor claps back at Trump's demand to rename her state

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham asked what 'policy failure' President Donald Trump was trying to distract Americans from, insisting her state's name predates America itself. Trump had claimed on Truth Social that the switch would lift home values and make its 'Crooked Elections' honest again. Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Luján vowed: 'we'll still be New Mexico.' The row erupts two weeks before the midterms.

Spanish settlers named the region Nuevo México back in the 1500s.

Even a Republican running for Congress in New Mexico dismissed Trump's idea.

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